Laboratory:

Lab Partners and Lab Group Choice: 

The experiments are done in pairs.
Choose a partner as soon as possible.

As soon as you and your partner have reached a mutual agreement, please:

1) Login to Moodle and go to the main ELEC2607 page.
2) Find out who else is in the same lab section:

- Locate the People box in the upper left of the ELEC2607 screen

- Click on Participants

- Try to pick a partner.You will need to get this persons agreement.
- You can register yourself in a group, but not your partner.

Then go down the Moodle main page to the activities in the 2nd week and click on:
Choosing a Lab Partner and Lab Group

- Only two people can sign up for the same group.
- You can only sign up for one group.

• Talk to your lab partner:
  1)He/she must be in the same lab section as you.
  
  2)Have them sign up for the same lab group.
  3)You will need to arrange a time when you can get together to do the report.
  Each of you will write half the report. It must be an identifiable half. You are NOT allowed to pass in a report where we cannot identify which partner wrote which sections.
  4) You will also want to arrange a time to do the 2nd prelab.
  

Laboratory Start-up

• The labs start the week of January 14, 208. This is week two and thus an even week.
• There will be 4 experiments, the last one takes two lab periods.
• The laboratories are in room 4275ME.
• Pay particular attention to the prelab for Lab 1.
  The Monday odd people will have had only one lecture, so you will have to learn a lot from the prelab.

Know Your Teaching Assistant

• Note your TA's name, and email; they should be written on the board in the lab.
  If the TA forgets to do this, please ask her/him to do so.
• To contact your TA outside of the lab, please use email.

Prelabs:

• There is a prelab, and sometimes a prelab quizz, associated with each lab.
  This prelab must be presented to the TA at the start of the laboratory period, or when requested.
  The prelab and the associated quiz are worth 3 out of the 20 marks for the lab.
• If the prelab is not complete when requested these marks are forfeited. However incomplete prelabs which show good effort may receive some marks at the discretion of the TA.
• If the circuit design in the prelab is not done, or is not satisfactory, the TA will not allow circuit wiring or computer entry until it is done satisfactorily.
• The TA will initial the prelab; you will attach it to your final report.
• Normally the TA will discuss the prelab slightly, or ask some questions to insure the that the work is understood. A student must be in attendance to obtain marks for the prelab, unless special arrangements are made with the TA. The TA will cancel the prelab mark, and refuse to allow performance of the laboratory, if it is obvious that the student(s) is/are not knowledgeable enough about the experiment to have prepared the prelab themselves.
• The prelab responsibilities may be divided. However, both partners must be familiar with, and be able to answer questions about all of their prelab. "I don't know about that part, my partner did it" will not generate any prelab marks.
• If you are not there at the start of the lab when your group is asked to show your prelab, you will get a ZERO prelab mark.
  However you will still not be allowed to perform the lab until your prelab is satisfactory.

Checkout:

• At the end of the lab, the TA will check your circuit.
• The checkout is worth 3 out of the 20 lab marks.
• If the circuit is not complete, or not functional, they will check the amount completed.
  Hopefully you constructed your circuit is sections, since it is much easier to receive marks for complete sections than for a whole but nonfunctioning inhomogeneous entity.

Changing Lab Days:

• Use the Registrar's On-Line Registration to change lab days.
                                   http://www.carleton.ca/registrar/registration/
  
• If the sections are full use the Blocked Section Application  from the Associate Dean's office
                                   http://www.engineering.carleton.ca/academicsupport/blocked.php
  
• The latest information about blocked sections is available here.
                                   http://www.engineering.carleton.ca/academicsupport/index.php
   or here www.engineering.carleton.ca/academicsupport/forms.php
  

There are three main reasons for being denied access to a lab section:
            You are already registered for something else in the same time slots.
            The lab is already full.
            You are not properly registered in the course.

Using Moodle you are able to submit your name in unfilled slots in other labs. However:

• You will be recorded as an outsider.
• The TA will have a complete record of any section bouncing, and is under no obligation to check your work, or even allow access to the equipment.
• You will not be able to see your partner's, or anyone elses name except your own. :(

 If the Registrar's Office is too slow (we know the labs start early) email your reasons for wanting to change to the Course Coordinator, along with your complete timetable.  (See end)          
 

Lab Partners, Reports, and Identification of Authors

• Both partners will share the writing of the report.
  Each pair will submit a lab report constructed as follows:
  • Partner A will be responsible for:
    3.0 Design
  • Partner B will be responsible for:
    1.0 Introduction
    2.0 Specifications
    4.0 Implementation and Testing
    5.0 Summary
    6.0 Commentary
    

Attach the initialled prelab; you do not need to rewrite it as long as it is decipherable.

The author shall be identified as part of each main section heading. For example:
" 4.0 Implementation and Testing (Written by Snodgrass Workaholic)"

Partners will trade responsibilities on alternate labs.

• In certain cases partners may redefine which section each partner contributes. For example "3.0 Design" might be split into two subsections with different authors. Then clearly the partners should also divide the writing of other sections in an equitable way. This is not only allowed, but desirable, provided the division of work is roughly equal and the author of each section and subsection is clearly identified. However when one partner writes noticeably more than his/her share, the TA will increase the possible marks for that partner at the expense of the other partner.
• If you cannot get co-operation from your lab partner, write the Design section, and give headings for the other sections. You should briefly include the high spots about implementation and testing. You will get no co-operation mark.
• Reports which do not follow regulations, or which do not meet a minimum standard of physical and/or organizational neatness will be returned to the students unmarked.
  If the TA is really nice, you may be allowed to resubmit it, but you had better be one sweet talking dude to convince him/her.
• Read How to Write a Lab Report for Switching Circuits on the web page.
             http://www.doe.carleton.ca/%7Ejknight/97.267/267_03W/WritingLabRept.pdf
  

Lab Report Submission

Date and Time for Submission

The laboratory reports are due at 16:00 hr (4:00 pm), one week after the report laboratory was scheduled. If you are scheduled on Tuesday, the reports are due the following Tuesday.
    - After the dead line, your mark is multiplied by 0.7
    - After one week, your mark is multiplied by 0.4
    - After two week, your mark is multiplied by 0.25
    -  After four week, your mark is multiplied by 0.05
However all labs must be completed and submitted before the last day for receiving reports in order to pass the course, that is on or before 16:00 hrs. April 9, 2008

Place to Submit Reports

Labs are to be placed in the appropriate box in the stairwell between blocks 41xx and 42xx, near the Minto building entrance. Labs placed in the wrong slot are likely to be marked late.

Special Consideration

Laboratory Exemption for 2008

1.  Lab exemptions are NOT automatic. You must apply on or before Jan 16, 2008
   exemption request form     http://www.doe.carleton.ca/%7Ejknight/97.267/2607_07W/Inbox.html
   
2.   Lab exemptions will have the lab section Excused listed in Moodle's Groups Moodle login. If you are listed in a lab group, you are not exempt.
   Login, go to week 14 on the main Moodle page, or week 14 under Resources in the Activities box (left margin), and click on Lab exemptions for further instructions.

Exemption may be given under the following conditions:

1. You have satisfactorily completed all the labs within the last two years with and were in the upper half of the class in your lab mark.
2. You have not committed an instructional offense.
   
3. You have not had an exemption in a previous year, unless your mark had a substantial improvement over from the year before.
4. If you did the labs more than two years ago you are unlikely to be granted exemption.
   

If you decide to apply for an exemption, you must submit this Lab Exemption Request Form before Jan. 18, 2008, This is the Friday of the first week of labs.                      http://www.doe.carleton.ca/%7Ejknight/97.267/2607_07W/Inbox.html

If you are granted an exemption

1. You are expected to submit all the assigned problems, even if submission is waived for the rest of the class. In sections where the lowest mark is dropped, yours will be counted. 
2. Your average problem mark will replace the mark for the excused labs. This makes the problems worth 20% , (problem weight + lab weight) under the 2007 weightings.
3. You will be expected to know the theoretical part of the labs since that material often appears on examinations.

Other Special Consideration

• If you want a 2nd wavier of late penalties, or other such thing, contact Prof. Knight. (email is best)
• If, for religious reasons, you will not be able to attend exams on certain dates, email Prof. Knight before end of the 3rd week of classes (Jan. 25, 2008).
• Requests via the Paul Menton Centre should be submitted to Prof. Knight before the end of the 3rd week of classes (Jan. 25, 2008).

Cover Sheet for Lab Tracing

• In a class of 300 persons some labs may go astray. To make them easy to trace we ask that you use a full sheet of paper to make a receipt to attach to the front of the cover. A receipt should look like these examples.
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• This should be attached to the front of all labs handed in.
• The TA will note the mark on both halves of the receipt, cut off the bottom receipt, and file it in an envelope.
• If a report is returned with the bottom receipt attached, immediately tell the TA. It is likely your mark was not recorded.
• To encourage you to attach this receipt, the TAs are instructed to deduct 1% of your mark if you do not have it.