Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringInstructorLecturesLaboratoryGradingPolicy on CheatingDisabilityESE 123 Fall 2003 Introduction to Electronic Design Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University at Stony Brook Instructor Jayant P. Parekh, Rm. 225, Light Engineering Building Office Hours: Tue., Thur., 4 PM to 6 PM email address: [email protected] Tel: 631 632-8399/8400 Course Description This course, required of all freshmen intending to major in electrical or computer engineering, introduces basic electrical engineering concepts through hands-on analog and digital lab experiments, and lectures providing concepts and theory relevant to the labs, with primary emphasis on physical insight rather than mathematical rigor. The intent is to use experiments as a vehicle for gaining a sound foundation for further study of electrical engineering. Lectures Lectures are held on Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:20 PM to 3:40 PM in room 143 of the Engineering Building. The required textbook for this course is Analog and Digital Electrical Circuits for the Beginner by J.P. Parekh Laboratory The laboratory portion of this course has two components: (a) a virtual laboratory component in which the response of a circuit is theoretically predetermined through computer simulation; and (b) a real laboratory component in which circuits are hard wired on a breadboard and their response to a stimulus measured using appropriate instruments. The latter thus involves designing and constructing analog and digital circuits using physical components, and also involves becoming familiar with basic instruments. The bench laboratory activities will take place in the Engineering Electronics Laboratory in room 283 of the Light Engineering Building at the announced times. Any questions pertaining to course registration must be taken up with Ms. Caroline Huggins in room 267 of the Light Engineering Building. 1There are six laboratory sections with preannounced schedule hours. The CAD laboratory involves the use of a schematic capture and simulation software package, which allows one to construct a virtual circuit and simulate its performance. Wherever appropriate, pre-labs will require simulation of circuits, which then will be hard-wired and tested during a bench laboratory session. The CAD package used in the course is MultiSim, which constitutes the interactive schematic capture and simulation portion of the popular software package known as Electronics Workbench. This software package is available on the computers in the Undergraduate Electrical Engineering CAD Laboratory located in Room 281 of the Light Engineering Building. You may use this software in the CAD Laboratory during any of the hours that this laboratory is open for general use. However, you must have a student account for this specific facility. Information is posted in the CAD laboratory on how to open an account. The latest version of MultiSim is MultiSim 7, which was released recently, with the preceding version being MultiSim 2001. The Student Edition of MutiSim 2001 may be obtained from www.electronicsworkbench.com. A demo version of MultiSim 2001 may be downloaded from this web site. You may also want to go to this web site to familiarize yourself more with this product as well as related products, e.g., Ultiboard 2001, which provides the tool for the design of printed circuit boards used in final production or manufacture of circuits. The laboratory assignments consist of two parts, a pre-lab and a post-lab. The pre-lab consists of the work that you must do prior to performing work in the laboratory. Each student must hand in a copy of his or her pre-lab at the beginning of each laboratory. The post-lab documents the result of your laboratory work and includes data from measurements and answers to any questions based on observation or measurements of a circuit’s performance. The post-lab report must be written in a bound laboratory notebook with numbered carbon copy pages. A copy of the post-lab report must be handed in at the end of the lab. The pre-lab represents an individual effort while the post-lab represents a group effort. Grading Your course grade will be computed based on the following: Quizzes 30% Laboratory performance 30% Final examination 30% Portfolio 10% There is no mid-term examination. Instead quizzes will be given at the rate of three quizzes every three weeks, with each quiz taking about 5 to 10 minutes. The intention of the quizzes is to engage the student into studying on a regular basis rather than waiting until the night before an examination. Regular study is important also from the standpoint that the student is expected to the lab fully prepared. 23In engineering work in the real world, deadlines are a harsh fact of life. Sometimes you, or your company, will successfully meet these deadlines and sometimes you will not. When deadlines are not met, there is inevitably a price to be paid. The same will be true in this course. Late laboratory work will not be graded; you must turn in your pre lab at the start of your laboratory session and your post lab by the end of your laboratory session. Each student’s lowest laboratory grade will be dropped from the student’s laboratory average. The lowest two or three quiz grades will be dropped from the quiz portion of the grade depending on whether twelve or thirteen quizzes are given during the semester. There will be no make-up quiz. If you miss a quiz, this quiz will be one of the two or three not counted in the quizzes total. There will a final examination, which will be comprehensive in nature and generally of a multiple-choice type. Homework will be assigned but not collected. Solutions will be given out or discussed in class. Policy on Cheating Cheating in pre-lab or post-lab preparation or in quizzes or the final exam is considered a serious offense. Students found cheating on any work will receive a zero for that work. Cheating will generally result in the offending student being brought up on charges to the Committee on Academic Standing and Appeals, which can lead to a permanent record of the incident on the student’s transcript. Disability If you have a physical, psychological, medical, or learning disability that may affect your ability to carry out assigned course work, you are urged to contact the staff in the Disabled Students