Course Number: EET1122
College: New York City College of Technology
Semester: Fall 2023
Sessions: Thu 8:30 - 11 AM (Lab)
Location: Voorhees Hall 716
Office Hours: Thu 11 AM - 12 PM
Contact: seyed.farzaneh75@citytech.cuny.edu
Grading: Attendance, lab reports, and lab exams comprise 20% of your total course grade.
Lab Manual: The pdf version of the lab manual is here.

Requirements:

Digital Multimeter (DMM): Everyone needs to bring a digital multimeter of their own. You have two weeks to obtain yours since our first experiemnt will be on week 3.
Calculator: Everyone should have their own calculator as well. The calculator should be capable of complex arithmetic.

Course Outline

Week Date Experiment/Topic
1 Aug. 31 Introduction, book keeping, and proper lab report
2 Sep. 7 Nature of voltage, current and resistance. Ohm’s law.
3 Sep. 14 Lab #1: color code Intro to meters and feedback kit
4 Sep. 21 Lab #2: Ohm’s law
5 Sep. 28 Lab #3: series circuits
6 Oct. 5 Lab #4: parallel circuits
7 Oct. 12 Lab #5: series-parallel circuits I
8 Oct. 19 Lab #6: series-parallel circuits II
9 Oct. 26 Lab #7: troubleshooting (resistance measurements)
10 Nov. 2 Lab #7: troubleshooting (voltage measurements)
11 Nov. 9 Lab #8: meter sensitivity & accuracy
12 Nov. 16 Lab #9: superposition
13 Nov. 23 [Thanksgiving]
14 Nov. 30 Lab #10: Thevenin’s theorem
15 Dec. 7 Lab Exam
16 Dec. 14 [final exams week]

The official course outline is here.
City Tech’s Fall 2023 academic calendar is here.

Lab report format

  • One report per team
  • Cover page should include
    • course number and section
    • title of the experiment
    • semester (Fall 2023)
    • instructor (S. M. Farzaneh)
    • name and ID number of your team members
  • The report is addressed to a reader who is an electrical engineer as intelligent as you but has no knowledge of the lab manual or the experiment you are performing.
  • Always use complete sentences when describing the experiment or the results.
  • Proper page numbering
  • Content of the report should include
    • Abstract (1 paragraph): What is the aim of this particular experiment? What equipment are we using? What is the main result and conclusion of this experiment?
    • Procedure (1 paragraph): How do we implement this experiment/circuit? What equipment do we use? What do we measure?
    • Results (data tables or graphs): explain what they represent. All axes in a graph need to have proper labels. All physical quantities need proper units.
    • Analysis (few paragraphs): compare results with expectation, explain your observations, list errors or non idealities that occur.
    • Answer to questions in the lab manual
    • Conclusion (1 paragraph): how successful the goals of this lab were met, efficacy of the procedure, limitations, and/or other methods (if possible)