ECE Undergraduate Laboratory Syllabus (Spring 2013)
Dr. Claude Hargrove, 2164 EPIC (chargro4@uncc.edu)
Mr. Eddie Hill, 2154 EPIC, ECE Technician (ehill27@uncc.edu)
Meeting times, assignments and due dates are listed on each section’s Moodle page.
Textbooks are not required for ECE laboratory courses. Procedures for all experiments are
available on the ECE Laboratory Website at: http://ece.uncc.edu/component/content/article/13labs/139-ece-labs.html
Students must read and follow the Lab Safety Rules that are posted in laboratory classrooms and
on the ECE Laboratory Website. Safety glasses must be worn when cutting, soldering, or
energizing power circuits.
Term Schedule
1/9 – 1/11
1/14 – 1/18
1/21 – 1/25
1/28 – 2/1
2/4 – 2/8
2/11 – 2/15
2/18 – 2/22
2/25 – 3/1
3/4 – 3/8
3/11 – 3/15
3/18 – 3/22
3/25 – 3/29
4/1 – 4/5
4/8 – 4/12
4/15 – 4/19
4/22 – 4/26
4/29 – 5/3
5/6 – 5/10
5/13
No Lab
Experiment 1; Pre-Lab 1 is due at start of class
No Lab; Lab Report for Experiment 1 due.
Experiment 2;
Experiment 3
Experiment 4
Experiment 5; Lab Report for Experiments 2, 3 & 4 due.
Experiment 6
No Lab
Experiment 7
Experiment 8; Lab Report for Experiments 5, 6 & 7 due.
No Lab
Experiment 9
Experiment 10
Practical Exams; Lab Report for Experiments 8, 9 & 10 due.
No Lab
No Lab
No Lab
Final Grade Posted
Pre-Lab exercises must be completed and turned in at the beginning of each lab class. If you
think that you will need to reference pre-lab information to perform experiments or to do postlab work, make copies.
EMERGENCY CLOSINGS: In the event of inclement weather or local emergency, check the
UNC Charlotte website for emergency closing announcements. If the university is closed, lab
classes are canceled. Lab classes will resume on schedule when the university reopens. Lab
instructors will arrange make-up sessions for labs canceled due to unscheduled university
closings.
Grading
Lab reports are submitted on MOODLE only in Turnitin. Each report is one file, whether it is
for one experiment or three. Course grades are computed in the following way:
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Weekly Lab Notebook
Weekly Pre-Lab
Weekly Quiz
Report (Technical)
Report (English)
Practical Exam
10 points ea.
10 Points ea.
10 points ea.
100 points ea.
25 points ea.
x 10 =
x 10 =
x 10 =
x 4=
x 4=
Course Total
100 points
100 points
100 points
400 points
100 points
200 points
1000 points
Course Grade = (Course Total)/1000 x 100%
Grading policy details are available on the ECE Website via the “ECE Laboratory Policies” link.
Please read this document carefully.
Academic Dishonesty – Zero Tolerance
Students work together in the laboratory to build circuits and measure data. Except for discussion
and the sharing of data among lab partners, collaboration ends when the lab session is over.
Students must work independently to write their own pre-lab exercises and reports. There must
be no copying of student-generated text, tables, charts or graphs. Use of text copied from internet
sources, e.g., Wikipedia is strictly forbidden. Raw data aside, any duplicate work submitted will
be viewed as cheating, and will result in disciplinary action according to university policy.
Instances of cheating will result in disciplinary action according to university Policy Statement
#105 ( http://legal.uncc.edu/policies/ps-105.html ). The penalty for a first offense can range
from a formal warning to an F for the course. Regardless of the penalty imposed, a record of the
offense will be kept for eight years in the Office of the Dean of Students.
Plagiarism Checking – Turnitin
Laboratory reports will be submitted for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the
detection of plagiarism. All submitted reports will be included as source documents in the
Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such reports.
No student reports will be submitted to Turnitin.com without a student’s written consent and
permission. If a student does not provide such written consent and permission, plagiarism
checking will be accomplished by other means.
Religious Holidays - University Policy
Students wishing to be excused from classes for religious holidays must submit a Request for
Religious Accommodation Form before the census date.
Syllabus Revisions This syllabus may be modified as the course progresses. Notice of changes
will be by email or in-class announcement.