1. Electronic Instrumentation
Project Report Guidelines

2. Each project has the following parts
Introduction
Background
Initial Design
Final Design
Results and Conclusions
Extra Credit (optional)
Personal Responsibilities
Appendices
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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.
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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
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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,
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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?
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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?
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8. 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.
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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?
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10. 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.
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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
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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
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Grading 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.
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