Reference materials

Printed and online learning materials

  • Wikibooks  online textbook 
  • Paul Falstad's giant interactive  site. A good place to start if you're really confused. The interactive animations can give you valuable intuition. 
  • The ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Physics Education and Teaching research group . These are a great place to go if you're confused on basic quantites. 
  • Exploring Arduino: Tools and Techniques for Engineering Wizardry.  Jeremy Blum 
  • The Analysis and Design of Linear circuits. Thomas, Rosa, & Toussant. Wiley (2012). ISBN-13.  This is the same textbook used for ECEN 2250 Introduction to Circuit Electronics, a core sophomore course.  This book has many edditions, so if you want to use it for 2250, check that class syllabus to verify the edition. 
  • I â€‹.  This online text was developed by ITLL staff for the GEEN 1400 class and has lots of good material on design, presentation etc.  Chapter 17 on electronics covers much of the basic analog portions of our class.

Structure and grading of lab reports

  • of lab reports
  • MS Word for lab reports
  • Sample ECEN 1400 labs reports courtesy of Dr. Peter Mathys. These include the prelab, unlike how we are running the class, so you can ignore those sections. These are arranged roughly from worst (first) to best (last). 
    •  of a lab report. This is a poor report in all categories.
    • .   "Proofreading would have dramatically improved this lab report". 
    •  of a graded lab report that has a good structure, but quite a few typos, grammatical, and logical errors. Some graphs are wrong and questions are not answered.
    • .

Final project portfolio examples

Schematic capture tools

These can help you in understanding, lab reports or your final project.  This is not an endorsement - use your own judgement.  

  •  - limited features but easy to use.
  •  - a well recommended, fully featured free package including PCB layout.
  • - a web-based schematic capture and simulation tool. 

Workshops

  • IdeaForge workshops
  • College of engineerig workshops
  • Career services of events
  • Or ask your undergraduate advisor.  Or check the announcement boards outside the department or college offfices...

Manuals for lab equipment

Datasheets and ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉäno documentation

  • including sensors