Week 1 Prelab: Order your Lab Kit!

Procedure	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Order your lab kit now.	Order Window: Aug 14 - Aug 25

Welcome to ECE 110!

ECE 110 is a lecture-plus-laboratory course with 100 minutes of lecture and 170 minutes of lab in a "normal" 5-day work week.

With this time allotment and a design element within the lab, you can anticipate some concepts will be introduced in lecture but many other concepts will be introduced in lab where the hands-on environment can be a better venue for learning. The two aspects of this course, lab and lecture, are complimentary in their roles to enable you to analyze and design electronic circuits. In fact, no student will pass the course unless earning better than 50% in both the lab and non-lab components separately!

While most of the course communication is handled at Canvas, you will find that the laboratory-specific information is better presented by this web site you are now viewing.

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Lectures in Week 1:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Lecture #1. Intro and Professionalism		2. Current and Voltage

Aug 21-25 Week 1: Welcome!

Procedure	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
No in-person lab		No lab this week, but pickup your lab kit and finish the prelab below for next week!
Order and pick up your lab kit from the ECE Supply Center now. Here's a short video of what I recieved in my bag from the ECE Supply Center: [video]	Order Window: Aug 14 - Aug 25 Pickup Window: Aug 21- Sept 1 in ECEB Supply Center - 10am-2pm Last day to request any missing parts: Sept 12
Course Syllabus
... Lab Attendance Policy
... Late Submissions

Week 2 Prelab: Professionalism in Teamwork--Introduce Yourself

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Working as a Team [.pdf] [.docx]		GradeScope Each student will make a video [.mp4]. Warning: Other video formats will not* be accepted. Finish prelab exercises below before the next week's lab meeting. How to Use Gradescope

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
3. Measuring and Modeling		4. Power and Energy; Efficiency

Aug 28-Sep 1 Week 2: Professionalism--Meet your Team

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Labs meet in Room 1005 ECEB	Enter 1005 ECEB through the door on the East hallway. You will recevie 15-30 minutes of instruction before moving into the main laboratory space in 1001 ECEB.
Lab Equipment Walkaround	A TA-guided tour of the lab, its equipment and their importances in analysis and design.
Team Collaboration and Charter [.pdf] [.docx]	While you complete this exercise to generate your Team Charter, you will want to edit this template [.pdf] [.docx] instead of starting from scratch.	GradeScope "Post-lab" reports are generally submitted within 24 hours after the end of your sheduled lab period (with exceptions noted).
Special learning activity.	Extra Credit: A Serious Failure Causes Multiple Deaths! [.pdf] [.docx]	GradeScope

Week 3 Prelab: Modeling--Open that Kit!

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Confirm your kit contents using the [parts list] Alternately, you can go through the kit on this guided tour with Prof. Schmitz: [video]	Last day to request any missing or broken parts: Sep 12. The videos also provide valuable insight into the parts, avoiding damage to the parts, and avoiding injury to yourself.	GradeScope
Next you need to learn about the Breadboard through this Video	Until you understand the breadboard, you will not become proficient in lab.	GradeScope

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
No Lecture. Labor Day holiday.		5. Electronic Devices

Sep 5-8 Week 3: Modeling--Electronic Devices

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
No in-person lab	ECE 110 in-person labs will run Monday-Friday each week. Since Monday is a holiday, the in-person lab will skip a week to keep us on our M-F schedule.	No lab this week, but pickup your lab kit and finish the prelab below for next week!
Lab-Focused Office Hours	Starting in Week 3. What are these? While the course has multiple office hours staffed by instructors and CAs, there is no guarantee that this person is intimately aware of the lab assignments and lab policies. The lab-focused office hours are staffed by the lab TAs and will be your best resource for getting face-to-face answers to lab-specific questions. A further perk/draw for attendance will be the extra-credit content available most weeks. By attending the lab-focused office hours, you can receive additional assistance which is particularly nice if you find the topics of the course especially challenging.

Procedures

Discussion

Submit to Your TA

No in-person lab

ECE 110 in-person labs will run Monday-Friday each week. Since Monday is a holiday, the in-person lab will skip a week to keep us on our M-F schedule.

No lab this week, but pickup your lab kit and finish the prelab below for next week!

Lab-Focused Office Hours

Starting in Week 3.

What are these? While the course has multiple office hours staffed by instructors and CAs, there is no guarantee that this person is intimately aware of the lab assignments and lab policies. The lab-focused office hours are staffed by the lab TAs and will be your best resource for getting face-to-face answers to lab-specific questions.

A further perk/draw for attendance will be the extra-credit content available most weeks. By attending the lab-focused office hours, you can receive additional assistance which is particularly nice if you find the topics of the course especially challenging.

Week 4 Prelab: Circuit Simulation

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Falstad Circuit Simulator [.pdf] [.docx]	Learn to simulate circuits with this easy-to-use tool!	GradeScope

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
6. Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws		7. Series and Parallel, Power Ratings, Divider Rules

Sep 11-15 Week 4: Capacitors--RC Time Constants

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
How to Breadboard [.pdf] [.docx]	You have watched the Breadboard video so this will give you a quick refresher then introduce a few electronic components as we learn to build a small circuit.	GradeScope
Transistor Circuit Models [.pdf] [.docx]		GradeScope
Keysight Oscilloscope Intro [.pdf][.docx]
Falstad RC time constant [.pdf][.docx]
Breadboard RC time constant [.pdf][.docx]
Lab-Focused Office Hours: Sunday through Thursday 5-5:50 pm in 1005 ECEB TAs are available to answer your lab questions and provide guidance on special learning opportunities.	This week, for our special learning activity, we offer Extra Credit What is a Resistor? [.pdf][.docx] You can do this activity at home or come to one of this week's Lab-Focused office hours to have guideance as you learn about resistance.	Extra credit submission via GradeScope.
Lab-Focused Office Hours: Sunday through Thursday 5-5:50 pm in 1005 ECEB	This week, we offer Extra Credit Plotting with Python [*.pdf] You can do this activity at home or come to one of this week's Lab-Focused office hours.	Extra credit submission via GradeScope.

Week 5 Prelab: Validating Kirchhoff's Laws

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Extech MN35 Multimeter Intro Video [.pdf][.docx]	Watch the video, then work through the prelab document.	GradeScope
Kirchhoff's Laws on a Breadboard [.pdf][.docx]	Now that you know how to use the multimeter, build a circuit and show that you understand Kirchhoff's Laws!	Video on GradeScope

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8. Kirchhoff in Circuit Analysis		9. Time-Varying Signals: AC, PWM

Sep 18-22 Week 5: Practical Voltage Dividers

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Schmitt-Trigger Inverter [.pdf][.docx]
Cloud Detector [.pdf][.docx]
Lab-Focused Office Hours: Sunday through Thursday 5-5:50 pm in 1005 ECEB	This week, we offer A Timed Reaction [.pdf] [.docx] You can do this activity at home or come to one of this week's Lab-Focused office hours.	Extra credit submission via GradeScope.

Week 6 Prelab: Time-Varying Signals

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Remove Scopy Tutorial [.pdf] [.docx]
Remove ADALM 2000 (M2k) Tutorial [.pdf] [.docx]

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
10. Absorbed Power plus Design Choices		11. Current-Voltage relationships

Sep 25-29 Week 6: Time-Varying Signal Generation

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Square-Wave Oscillator [.pdf][.docx]
More on the Oscilloscope [.pdf][.docx]
Function Generator Introduction [.pdf][.docx]
Lab-Focused Office Hours: Sunday through Thursday 5-5:50 pm in 1005 ECEB	This week, we offer What is a Capacitor? [.pdf][.docx] You can come to one of this week's Lab-Focused office hours to have guideance as you learn about resistance.	Extra credit submission via GradeScope.

Week 7 Prelab: Practical Resistor Design

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Getting Around Resistor Power Limits [.pdf][.docx]	You can use more than one resistor to 1) get the resistance value you desire and 2) build an "equivalent" resistor from many that can dissipate a much-higher power.
Assemble Your Car Chassis: Do a quick motor check. ONLY then build the car.	If you have a faulty motor, DO NOT BUILD the car. They are very difficult to disassemble and you may break it. Go to lab to get a replacement motor first.

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
12. Using IV for Predicting Behavior		13. Thevenin-Equivalent Models

Oct 2-6 Week 7: Putting it Together!

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Light-Controlled Motor [.pdf] [.docx]
Light-Seeking Robot [.pdf] [.docx]
Lab-Focused Office Hours: Sunday through Thursday 5-5:50 pm in 1005 ECEB	This week, we offer Oscillator Analysis [.pdf] [.docx] You can do this activity at home or come to one of this week's Lab-Focused office hours to have guideance as you learn about resistance.	Extra credit submission via GradeScope.

Week 8 Prelab: Debugging

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Storytelling in oral reports. [.pdf] [.docx]
Hangups of personal assumptions. [.pdf] [.docx]

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
14. Norton Models, Transforming Models, Superposition		15. Node-Voltage Analysis

Oct 9-13 Week 8: Debugging

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Interviewing to avoid assumptions. [.pdf] [.docx]
Debugging [.pdf] [.docx]
Story Telling Video [.pdf] [.docx]	Finish the Video in class or make as much progress as you can using the available in-lab time. You cannot leave early if it isn't done, but you will be given additional time to submit for this part of today's lab.
Lab-Focused Office Hours: Sunday through Thursday 5-5:50 pm in 1005 ECEB	This week, we offer Does the Motor have a Thevenin-Equivalent? [.pdf] [.docx] You can come to one of this week's Lab-Focused office hours.	Extra credit submission via GradeScope.

Week 9 Prelab: Soldering and/or Unit Report!!

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Soldering is Easy: Here's How to Do It by Mitch Altman, et. al. [.pdf]
Watch this video on "Tinning Your Tips" at Weller Tools
Mid-Term Written Report: Draft the Outline [.pdf] [.docx]	Start Early!

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
16. Intro to Diodes		17. Diode Circuits

Oct 16-20 Week 9: Diodes+Practical Time-Varying Waveforms

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Pulse-Width Modulation [.pdf] [.docx]
PWM Straight-Run Car [.pdf] [.docx]

Week 10 Prelab: Analog-Circuit Logic

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
A two-nMOS circuit AND operator. [.pdf] [.docx]
Finish and Submit the Storytelling Video.
Complete the CATME peer evaluation

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
18. Diode Applications		19. Bipolar Junction Transistor

Oct 23-27 Week 10: Analog-Circuit Logic

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
PWM Straight-Run Car with Speed Control [.pdf] [.docx]

Week 11 Prelab: Finish the Mid-Term Report

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Mid-Term Written Report: Finish the Report[.pdf] [.docx]	Requires the *entire team* to meet and work together!

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
20. The BJT's IV Characteristics		21. BJT's Voltage Transfer Characteristic

Oct 30-Nov 3 Week 11: Design

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Final Project: Design and Build an Applause Meter [.pdf] [.docx]
Task: TBD [.pdf] [.docx]	Divide into pairs and Complete these Modules.

Week 12 Prelab: Final Project--Individual Responsibility

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
22. BJT as a Voltage Amplifier		23. Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET)

Nov 6-10 Week 12: Final Project--Team Collaboration

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Task: TBD [.pdf] [.docx] TBD [.pdf] [.docx]	Divide into pairs and Complete these Modules. Some possibly helpful (or not) additional modules: TBD [.pdf]
Individual modules and Team Collaboration.		Progress Report on GradeScope

Week 13 Prelab: Final Project--Team Collaboration

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Meet with your Team outside of lab.
You don't know what you don't know: Common issues in building real circuits.	Submit a completed circuit schematic of your current full-car design.	Progress Report on GradeScope

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
24. More on MOSFET		25. cMOS Logic

Nov 13-17 Week 13: Project Completion

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
This is your last in-lab opportunity for TA assistance and you combine your modules to complete a working design!	Final Project Video and Report due on GradeScope by Wednesday, Dec 6, midnight! Final Report Rubric [pdf] [docx] Final Video Rubric [PNG]

Nov 20-24 Week 14: BREAK!

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
BREAK!	BREAK!	BREAK!

Week 15 Prelab: Know Your Design!

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Finish your project and prepare for the Q&A session!

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
26. cMOS Power Consumption		27. Photodiodes and Solar Panels

Nov 27-Dec 1 Week 15: ECE 110's Game Day! Presentations...

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
Individual Question and Answer		Your TA will apply this Question and Answer Rubric

Week 16 Prelab: Complete CATME Peer Evaluations

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
	Complete your peer evaluations. The stakes are high! If you don't complete them, you will lose 50% on all submissions related to the Final Project of this course!	CATME

Lectures this week:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
28. Finish and Review		29. Review

Dec 4-6 Week 16: End of Semester!

Procedures	Discussion	Submit to Your TA
No In-Lab Meeting		Final Project Video and Report due on GradeScope by Wednesday, Dec 6, midnight! Final Report Rubric [pdf] [docx] Final Video Rubric [PNG]