ES-110: Introduction to Engineering & Lab Experience
Lab Experience
Fall ‘07
Days: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00 am - 12:50 pm
Location: Salazar 2003
Office hours: Please feel free to drop by my office any time or you could call me and make an appointment.
Office location: Salazar 2002
Phone: (707) 664-2150
E-Mail: shahram.marivani@sonoma.edu
Course Overview:
In this portion of the course, the focus will be
on familiarizing the students with the Engineering Science labs, the equipment
in these labs and a glance at some of the software used in the program. There
will also be group discussions led by the course instructors Shahram Marivani,
Ali Kujoory and Jagan Agrawal. The scope of the group discussions will be
the material covered in lectures as well as laboratory.
Course Text:
There is no textbook for this class. The necessary course material will be posted on the web.
Grading Policy:
The lab grade will count for 50% towards the final
course grade. The lab grade has four components as follows:
| Completion of projects (labs) | 50% | |
| Participation in group discussions | 20% | |
| Final Exam | 20% | |
| Attendance | 10% |
Tentative Weekly Schedule:
Date |
Time |
Lab
Topics |
Tue 8/21 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to the engineering labs and related issues |
Tue 8/28 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to measurement equipment, part 1: DC |
Tue 9/4 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Group Discussion |
Tue 9/11 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to breadboards |
Tue 9/18 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Creating electrical circuits |
Tue 9/25 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Group Discussion |
Tue 10/2 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to measurement equipment, part 2: AC |
Tue 10/9 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
AC measurement equipment continued |
Tue 10/16 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Group Discussion |
Tue 10/23 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to Multisim |
Tue 10/30 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to Photonics |
Tue 11/6 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Group Discussion |
Tue 11/13 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to Networking |
Tue 11/20 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Introduction to LabView |
Tue 11/27 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Group Discussion |
Tue 12/4 |
10:00 am - 12:50 pm |
Final Exam |