Similar Papers, Working Together, and Plagiarism
- Students are encouraged to ask each other questions and help each other on problems. However this sharing only applies to concepts and understanding. It does not apply to worked results. If you work with someone else you are still expected to work out the details of your answers for yourself.
- If the same misprints appear on different problems, or if certain problems have an obvious "human Xerox" appearance, expect that the total mark for those papers will be reduced by 50 to 100%. Gross or repeated plagiarism will be treated much more severely.
- Any nonoriginal text, even a sentence, must be enclosed in quotes
and acknowledged. Borrowed pictures must have be acknowledged. This includes
all sources including the lab sheet. Paraphrasing in which the original
sentence structure is maintained is plagiarism. Text copied from the lab
sheets must be enclosed in quotes with the source given according to the
rules given in your course CCDP 2100. If you have not had the
benefit of this course, skipped class, or need help on knowing where the "line"
is, read this web article from U.C., Davis
. (Appendix)
- Laboratory reports, not written by you or your partner, are not permitted in the laboratory, and will be confiscated.
- Lab reports, which have sections copied from other reports, will treated as an plagiarism. These are dealt with by the Dean's Office http://www.gs.carleton.ca/calendars/current/general/general_regulations.html#gr14. Then search the page for "Plagerism".
Problems
- In Prof. Knight's section, a few short problems will be assigned
after each lecture.
These problems deal with the material just covered in the lecture.
At the start of the next lecture there will be a biased "random" determination about whether the problems will be collected. The bias is based on the marking resources; 2009 looks like we will be short of TAs to mark all of them.
These problems become immediately due, and will not be accepted after the initial collection at the start of the lecture.
- Prof. Rogers will announce you what type of assignments he will give.
- You are expected to answer simple questions asked in the course
of the lecture. If you are not in the lecture, and your name is called you
will be awarded a zero for that question. Some lectures also reward question
answers in other ways. Last year Prof Ray gave out chocolate.
Laboratory:
Lab Partners and Lab Group Choice:
Choose a partner as soon as possible.
1) Login to Moodle and go to the main ELEC2607 page.
2) Find out who else is in the same lab section:
2) Find out who else is in the same lab section:
- Locate the People box in the upper left of the ELEC2607 screen
- Try to pick a partner. You will need to get this persons agreement.
- You can register yourself in a group, but not your partner.
- 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.
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) Get your partners phone, cell, text messaging and snail mail addresses. There will come a time that you will need them badly.
4) 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.
5) You will also want to arrange a time to do the 2nd prelab.
Laboratory Start-up
- The labs start the week of January 12, 2009. 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 even people will have had only two lecture, so they 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 quiz, 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. - The quiz is written individually, in the lab, on a machine away from your partner. You may have your notes, but no human help.
- 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 4 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
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.
- 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. :(
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
- Partner A will be responsible for:
Attach the initialled prelab; you do not need to rewrite it. However you may find that much of the material in the prelab, when cleaned up and organized, can be used in the Design Section.
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
Co-operation between partners
- Marks are considered for co-operation between partners.
- These marks will automatically be lost if the sections of the report are not stapled together and passed in together.
- They will also be lost if the report is clearly written without
consultation, as indicated by:
- duplication of material by both partners.
- changing symbols between sections.
- handing in the sections separately.
- the whole report is clearly one persons writing or style.
- partners do not alternate which sections they do between labs.
Make a copy of the report
- Questions dealing with the laboratory theory will almost certainly
appear on the exams.
Since both you and your partner will want a copy of the reports for reference before and during the exam, make a copy of your lab report before you pass it in. This gives you the extra copy, and provides insurance if the original goes astray.
Marking Scheme for Each Lab
- There are individual marks for each section, except both students will be penalized
for cooperation and an improper cover sheet.
Prelab and lab work
Marks
a) Prelab: written, readable, reasonably complete, students can both explain the work.
3, 3
b) Both partners present during the lab and both working; successful check-out.
4, 4
Lab report:
c) Technical correctness: of explanations, of numerical values and graphs, of circuits.
7, 7
d) Organization and neatness of circuits, graphs; writing, English; Was it easy to follow?
6, 6
e) Did the partners cooperate; read each others work; smooth interfaced? If not, up to
-2.0
f) Was the receipt completely filled in and attached? If not
-1.0
Totals
20, 20
Late reports are marked normally, the TA will record how many weeks late it is. (1 wk, 2 wk etc).
Marks will be deducted later by the Course Coordinator.
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 7, 2009
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.One "Emergency Late"
Every one has problems, such as illness or political persecution, that
prevents them from presenting their work on time. To account for these you
are allowed one "emergency late" of up to one week for your report. The late
penalty will be automatically removed from one lab.
If it is over one week, the mark will be multiplied by 0.7. After two weeks
by 0.4, after three weeks, by 0.25. and after that by 0.05 Do not squander
this "emergency late". A 2nd waiver will be granted only for very major emergencies
with extensive documentation on the problems for both "lates."
One free checkout late may be allowed if it does not inconvenience
students working in their regular lab period. If you are not in a position
to be checked out at the end of the lab, you may request your free late
on checkout. This does not hold on the last lab (Odd Fridays).
If the chosen checkout day is crowded, you have priority zero, and may not be able to demonstrate, particularly if you ask to checkout near the end of the period.
This means people in the odd Friday lab period are at a disadvantage.
You will have a 2nd checkout mark posted for your lab, and the coordinator must know how to treat them.
Special Consideration
Laboratory Exemption for 2009
- Lab exemptions are NOT automatic. You must apply
on or before Jan 15, 2009
exemption request form http://www.doe.carleton.ca/%7Ejknight/97.267/2607_07W/Inbox.html
- 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.
- 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.
- You have not committed an instructional offense.
- You have not had an exemption in a previous year, unless your mark had a substantial improvement over from the year before.
- If you did the labs more than two years ago you are unlikely to
be granted exemption.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 on or before Jan. 16, 2009.
- Requests via the Paul Menton Centre should be submitted to Prof. Knight on or before Jan. 16, 2009.
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.