Electrical Engineering Department California Polytechnic University-San Luis Obispo EE 361-05 Winter 2012 Syllabus Instructor reserves the

right to change syllabus at any time Instructor: Sandy Nguyen Office: 20 - 135 Phone: Email Preferred E-mail: sanguyen@calpoly.edu Scheduled Office Hour: Wednesday 11AM-12PM or by appointment via email [at least 24 hour notice] Concurrent: EE 321 [If you have not previously completed EE 321 or you are not presently enrolled in EE 321, then you will be line-dropped] Required Text: EE 361 Lab Manual [One Manual per student] Required Parts Kit: EE 361 Parts Kit [Sold at El Corral and at IEEE in 20-115, a kit per group*] *You are recommended to purchase your own kit, however, just in case some parts are damaged while performing the experiments. Schedule: Note order of experiments is not the same order as manual. WEEK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 EXPERIMENT Course Overview #1 - Use of the Oscilloscope/Designer Box Familiarity #2 - Diode Circuits #3 - Bipolar Junction Transistor Circuit #6 - Operational Amplifiers Part 1 #7 - Operational Amplifiers Part 2 NO LAB #4 - Logic Gates and Flip-Flops #5 - Shift Registers and Memories LAB FINAL NO LAB

Group Report: Group reports consist of a prelab, recorded lab data, and postlab. The group report is due at the end of a lab session. A prelab from each student is due at the beginning of a lab period. One of the groups prelabs will be selected randomly to be included with lab data and postlab. Work must be shown for calculations performed in prelab and postlab problems! Note: If a student does not have a prelab at the beginning of the lab period, he or she will not receive credit for that portion of the lab report [33% reduction]. Prelab: On the front page(s) of each experiment are prelab problems. You are also expected to read the experiment before coming to lab. In most cases, students who finish the prelab and read the experiment before coming to lab learn more while in lab and complete the experiment in less

time than those who do not. It becomes obvious, as the quarter progresses, which students come to lab prepared and which do not. Lab Data: Experiments are to be accomplished in groups of two or three depending on class size. Each group is required to pass in their original [no photocopies will be accepted] experimental data at the end of the lab session as part of their lab report. Lab data is required to be recorded in Word and/or Excel available on the lab computers. Notebook word processor and/or spreadsheet software for recording lab data is acceptable too. Postlab: On the back page(s) of each experiment are postlab problems/questions. You are recommended to write postlab solutions to problems on engineering paper. Postlab answers are to be typed [I will not accept handwritten answers]. Group members are encouraged to work together on postlab problems/questions. However, group members cannot work with students outside their group. If there is collaboration between groups, all group members will receive zeros on their postlab. Final exam: An individual written final exam with problems and questions similar to, but different than, prelabs and postlabs. In addition, questions regarding the use of lab equipment are likely. Peer Evaluation: Each group member will evaluate [secretly] his or her group members using a scale of 1 [poor] to 5 [excellent]. Grading: The course grade you earn consists of three components; group reports, final exam, peer evaluation. These scores will comprise 60%, 30%, and 10% of your course grade, respectively. VERY IMPORTANT! Class attendance is mandatory to pass EE 361 except for university-recognized emergencies, which must be brought to the instructor's attention as soon as possible [e.g., by telephone and/or e-mail, carrier pigeon, etc.]. If a lab is missed due to a legitimate reason, deemed by the instructor as legitimate, you will be given an opportunity to make up the lab in a timely manner [within one week of the missed lab]. It is the students responsibility to find an opening in another section to make up the lab. It is a requirement to obtain the instructors signature as verification for being physically present during the lab makeup. If you miss a lab due to an illegitimate reason, you will receive a zero for the missed lab and you risk failing the course. If two labs are missed, you will fail the course.