EE/TE/CE-3101

ELECTRICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS LAB

Summer 2010 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 Office Email Office Hours

Location
6U1 TBD TBD TBD TBD
6U2 TBD TBD TBD TBD

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 EE/TE3301 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 school’s
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
EE/TE/CE 3301.

Date La Title
b
06/07 0 Safety and lab orientation
06/07 1 Introduction to laboratory equipment and basic components
06/14 2 Measurements on DC circuits
06/21 3 Techniques of Circuit Analysis
06/28 4 Computer Design and Analysis
07/05 5 Operational Amplifiers
07/12 6 Response of First Order RL and RC circuits
07/19 7 Response of Second Order RLC circuits
07/26 8 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 Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s 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, Thévenin 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 TA’s 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!