ENGR 3101 ELECTRICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS LAB Summer 2011 Syllabus Instructor: Tanay Bhatt, Ph.D. E-mail: tbhatt@utdallas.

edu Office: N/A Office hours: M/W 4:45-5:30 PM (or by appointment) Laboratory: ECSN 3.108, 3.112 Lab sessions: Sections 6U1/6U2 Monday/Wednesday 5:30 PM ~ 8:30 PM Teaching Assistants Section TA 6U1 6U2 TBD TBD Office Location TBD TBD Email TBD TBD

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Course objective: This course is designed to provide students with professional skills for lab experiences. Students will design, assemble and test linear electrical networks and systems. Students will learn how to troubleshoot in those procedures. Students will also use computers to control electrical equipment and acquire data using Labview. Students will simulate circuits with PSpice (MicroSim). Lab classes are designed to accompany the co-requisite ENGR 3301 Electrical Network Analysis class. Course web site: http://www.utdallas.edu/~tbhatt/ Check the website each week before preparing for the lab. It will be updated and will include hints, tips, etc. to help you prepare for the lab. Lab Procedures: The Lab procedures for experiments are available at the course website described above. Acrobat reader (version 4.0 or later) is required for the lab manual files. For details of lab procedures and

safety rules, refer to lab manuals. PSpice: Download the Student copy of PSpice 9.1 or higher: http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/schematic/013/ Some features of version 9.1 may be inconsistent with the guidelines in the lab manual. Experiment 1: Download and print out the documents for experiment#1 from the web site. A description of the lab equipment is in the Appendix. The appendix also gives handy tips for using the equipment. Bring it with you to lab for reference. Lab preparation: 1. Download the lab manual and bring it with you to lab. 2. Students should read the labs carefully and complete the prelab procedures before coming to class and submit their prelab reports to TAs (keep a photocopy to complete experiments). 3. Be prepared for the experimental procedures by understanding the relevant theory. Lab procedure: 1. Arrive on time. Turn in your lab reports when you walk in the laboratory. 2. Ask for the component kit box (labeled with a number on the cover), then start the experiment. Use the same box for every experiment. 3. TA will assist students to complete the experiment. Ask for help when in trouble with circuits and equipments. 4. Show your data sheet to the TA and get their initials on it when experiment is completed and before you leave the lab. 5. Clean the workstation area and return all wires to their storage location. Turn off the power on any equipment used during the experiment. Lab reports: 1. Read the descriptions of the informal lab report and the formal lab report in the preface of the lab manual. You must follow the designated formats. 2. Lab reports must be completed independently. You can share only the collected data sets with your lab

partner. Copying any part of the report from others is strictly prohibited and is against the schools scholastic integrity policy. 3. Lab reports are always due one week after the lab is completed. 4. No late lab reports are allowed. 5. Students should generate lab reports in a professional manner. Lab reports should be typed (generated by a word processor). 6. Reports must be turned in when you walk into the laboratory. 7. Two copies for prelab reports are required (original copy for TAs and photocopy for students). 8. In your prelab report, you have to make a components list in the circuits for the experiment. In the lab manual, prelab report portion is given under the preparation section. You must complete the prelab work before the lab starts. Grading: Grades are based on the lab reports. Lab reports: 80% Prelab reports: 20%. Safety rules: Read the safety rules that are presented in the preface of the lab manual and understand them for your safety. Note: Students will work on experiments in two-person teams. Please have your teammate selected before Lab #1. If you cannot find a teammate, ask your TA for a partner assignment. The TA will judge your ability to handle the equipment and to troubleshoot problems during the experiments, which will be reflected in your final grade. Scholastic Integrity: Scholastic dishonesty at The University of Texas at Dallas includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism and/or collusion. Scholastic dishonesty will not be tolerated. For details refer to the Scholastic dishonesty policy of University of Texas at Dallas.

Lab schedule: Lab schedule is subject to change according to the class schedule of ENGR 3301. Week of 06/06 06/06 06/13 06/20 06/27 07/11 07/18 07/25 Extra La b 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Title Safety and lab orientation Introduction to laboratory equipment and basic components Measurements on DC circuits Techniques of Circuit Analysis Computer Design and Analysis Operational Amplifiers Response of First Order RL and RC circuits Response of Second Order RLC circuits Sinusoidal Steady State Analysis and Power Calculations

Experiment 1: Download and print out the documents for Lab #1. Read this first before you start. Experiment 2: Download and print out the documents for Lab #2. You need to finish your prelab report before you come to the lab. Please submit your finished Pre-lab (keep an extra copy for your reference) report along with your Lab report for Lab #1 to the TA. Please review Ohms law and Kirchhoffs law in the textbook when you do the theoretical analysis. The circuits you are going to build and test are various resistive circuits in DC. The purpose of this experiment is to verify the theoretical analysis. Include all computation steps (not just computed values) and submit them in a separate sheet. Experiment 3: Lab #3 will be moderately more difficult than the previous 2 experiments. You need to get prepared well before you come to the lab otherwise you may have a difficult time finishing the lab! This lab is designed to provide the experiments for DC resistive circuit analysis techniques involving the node-voltage method, the mesh-current

method, source transformation, Thvenin equivalent and Norton equivalent. As mentioned earlier, this is a good opportunity to review these theoretical materials again to maximize your lab experience. Experiment 4: The purpose of Lab #4 is to get familiar with very important software: PSpice, which is extensively used in circuit design and simulation. In prelab for Lab 4, you need to draw one circuit diagram (Fig. 4.1) with Pspice. Pspice shows the node voltages and branch currents. You can print this and turn it in. You can download a student version of Pspice for free (http://www.electronics-lab.com/downloads/schematic/013/). You will need WinZip to unzip files and then click on setup icon (with computer picture). Experiment 5: The purpose of Lab #5 is to get familiar with Operational Amplifier. Make sure you have a prelab report. Experiment 6: This week, we are going to work on first order RL and RC circuits. Please review Chapter 7 of the textbook if necessary. We will observe the natural and step response of RL and RC circuits in this lab. Experiment 7: This lab is similar to the last lab, except that we are going to work on second order RLC circuits. Please review Chapter 8 of the textbook if necessary. Experiment 8: For Lab 8 we will analyze circuits driven by sinusoidal voltage or current source. We are going to consider the concepts of phasors, complex representation of circuit elements, and power calculations in the sinusoidal steady-state. Please submit all reports to the TA. You can drop the reports in the mailbox outside of the TAs office (office number

is at the top of this page). This concludes our lab course in this semester, thank you all for your hard work, and Good Luck with your future studies!