Electronic Instrumentation Project Report Guidelines

Each project has the following parts Introduction Background Initial Design Final Design Results and Conclusions Extra Credit (optional) Personal Responsibilities Appendices 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Introduction Application Goals What is the project about? What are you trying to achieve with your final design? Educational Goals What topics have we covered in class that influence your understanding of the project? You need to name at least two. 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Background What is the theory that you must understand in order to know what is going on in the project? What does the initial design do and how does it work? Cite references and include in appendix web sites (include a link name, not a copy) books 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation How to Cite References In your report, put the number of the reference after the information you took from the reference. If you take a direct quote, you need to put it in quotes: Inductors are more complex devices than capacitors. When you use one in a circuit, you not only need to consider the value of the inductance, but also the “DC resistance of the coil, the current-carrying capacity of the coil windings, the breakdown voltage between the coil and the frame, and the frequency range in which the coil is designed to operate.” [1] Do not use too many direct quotes. Try to use your own words: If you try to put more current through an inductor than the coil can handle, it gets hot and could be unsafe. [1] In the appendix, include a list of references 1. PHYSICS LECTURE NOTES PHYS 395 ELECTRONICS, D.M. Gingrich, University of Alberta, Department of Physics,1999, http://www.phys.ualberta.ca/~Egingrich/phys395/notes/phys395.html 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Initial Design Building the initial design How did you build it? What did you learn while building it? Calculations/Measurements/Plots/Circuit Diagrams Include in appendix Tell where these things are located in appendix May repeat in report for clarity How did it work? What results did you get? Is there room for improvement? Where? 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Final Design Building the final design What did you change? Why did you make these changes? What did you learn while building the final design? Calculations/Measurements/Plots/Circuit Diagrams Include in appendix Tell where these things are located in the appendix May repeat in report for clarity How did it work? What results did you get? Is this an improvement over the initial design? 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

Results and Conclusions How good are your results? Engineers use quantitative comparisons whenever possible. (i.e. percent error, percent improvement, graphs, tables, etc.) Text should have highlights, trends and general conclusions. You may only have enough data for a qualitative comparison (i.e. better, worse, clearer, etc.) Sources of error What factors caused your results to be less than ideal? Formal error analysis not necessary. What improvements could you make to get better results? Basic conclusions and answers to questions Answer the questions given to you in the project handout. The questions should help you to draw some basic conclusions about the project. 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Extra Credit Discuss anything you did to get extra credit What did you do? Why did you try this? How did it work? Why is it extra credit? 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

Personal Responsibilities Decide on tasks that need to be done Assign responsibility for each task to one person Describe who did what Do not just say “We all did everything.” Either do a final review together, or have one person review the final report for clarity and consistency. 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Appendices Useful data or results from experiments Information resources From the web From the library or other sources Only attach useful information Useless information will result is a loss of points Explain the purpose of each piece of info 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Concise vs. Brief Concise is the goal All relevant information included Efficient and specific Make it easy to see what you want to communicate (graphs, charts, tables, etc.) Brief is not the goal Short and general Not all information included Not sufficient for an engineering report 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation

ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation Grading -- 100 points Projects are graded out of 100 points Each project also has 20 points for participation based on attendance. Each project has a grade sheet for the 80 point report. It is posted on-line. Specific point values assigned to each part for a total of 70 points 10 points for a general assessment of quality, organization and understanding. 4/14/2019 ENGR-4300 Electronic Instrumentation