THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
CONTROL SYSTEMS I LAB 4400:371
SPRING 2009
LAB INSTRUCTOR: Jay L. Adams
OFFICE: ASEC 456
OFFICE HOURS:
Monday 12:01 p.m. to 01:00 p.m.
Other times by appointment
Wednesday 12:01 p.m. to 01:00 p.m.
COURSE REGULATIONS
1. Only certified medical excuses will be accepted for missed quizzes, prelab, or lab report deadlines. You must notify the instructor prior to any missed quizzes, prelab, and/or lab report
deadlines.
2. An unexcused absence from any lab session, results in receiving a zero for the whole lab course
and may have further effect on the grade in the Control Systems I class.
3. Prelabs are assigned for each of the nine lab sessions. The prelab is due at 01:00 p.m. on
the day prior to the lab session. The prelab may be handed in at my office or to Gay in the
Electical Engineering office. The prelab is essential preparation for the lab session, and as such
it must be completed, graded, and returned for use in the lab session. If your prelab is not
turned in completed, you may not do the lab session. This results in an unexcused
absence from the lab session in question.
4. Although team work is encouraged, cheating will not be tolerated and may result in dimissal
from that class and possibly even the College of Engineering.
5. Please check your quizzes, prelabs, or lab reports as soon as they are returned to you. Revisions
and grade changes will be considered only during the first seven days after the quizzes, prelabs,
or lab reports have been returned to you.
6. Any class-, grading-, and treatment-related issues should be brought to my attention immediately.
GRADES:
Pre-Labs
Quizzes
Lab Reports
30%
15%
55%
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
Week Date
Lecture Topic
Lab Session
1
Jan 13
Jan 15
Analog Computers
Analog Computers
No Lab
No Lab
2
Jan 20
Jan 22
MATLAB
MATLAB
Lab #1
Lab #1
3
Jan 27
Jan 29
Time and Magnitude Scaling
Time and Magnitude Scaling
Lab #2
Lab #2
4
Feb 03
Feb 05
RLC Networks
RLC Networks
Lab #3
Lab #3
5
Feb 10
Feb 12
No Lecture
No Lecture
No Lab
No Lab
6
Feb 17
Feb 19
Gain, Poles & Zeroes
Gain, Poles & Zeroes
Lab #4
Lab #4
7
Feb 24
Feb 26
Transient Response
Transient Response
Lab #5
Lab #5
8
Mar 03
Mar 05
Error Coefficients
Error Coefficients
Lab #6
Lab #6
9
Mar 10
Mar 12
No Lecture
No Lecture
No Lab
No Lab
10
Mar 17
Mar 19
No Lecture
No Lecture
No Lab
No Lab
11
Mar 24
Mar 26
Root Locus Compensation
Root Locus Compensation
Lab #7
Lab #7
12
Mar 31
Apr 02
Classical Compensation
Classical Compensation
Lab #8
Lab #8
13
Apr 07
Apr 09
No Lecture
No Lecture
Lab #9
Lab #9
14
Apr 14
Apr 16
No Lecture
No Lecture
No Lab
No Lab
15
Apr 21
Apr 23
No Lecture
No Lecture
No Lab
No Lab
16
Apr 28
Apr 30
No Lecture
No Lecture
No Lab
No Lab
Lab Reports
Lab Report #1 Due
Lab Report #1 Due
Lab Report #2 Due
Lab Report #2 Due
Lab Report #3 Due
Lab Report #3 Due