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Administrative details
What:
ECEN 1400 Intro to Analog and Digital Electronics,
Who:
Dr. Robert McLeod, ECEE 1B47, (73)5-0997
[email protected] Put ECEN 1400 in subj.
Office hours:
Dr. McLeod:
Wed 4 PM
ECEE 1B42
TA office hours are in the Lab at the following times:
TA
Max Dunn
Ryan Sigur
Chad Smith
Alex Mault
Matt Noice
[email protected] When
John.Dunn-1
Mon 12 PM
Ryan.Sigar
Tues 12 PM
Richard.Smith-2
Thu 1 PM
alex.mault
Thu 3 PM
Mathew.Noice
Role
Prelabs and solutions
Labs and solutions
Lead
Peer grading
Where:
FLMG 155 (lecture), ECEE 281 (lab)
When:
Lecture: Mon,Wed 10:00-10:50 AM
Lab: Fri 10-11:50 AM or 3:00 – 4:50 PM
Final:
Text:
Date not yet available. Project demo
None. See suggestions for references.
Pre/Corequisite:
APPM 1350, Calc I for Engineers.
Grading:
Prelabs
Labs
Peer grading
Pre-class warm-up (D2L)
Project (in lieu of final)
Midterms (2)
Comprehensive exam
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Learning goals
In this project-based course, you will acquire the basic but
functional skills of electrical engineering through the design and
implementation of a working digital clock. Motivated by the
project, you will learn
1.  Computer aided electrical schematic layout and simulation
2.  Current/voltage characteristics of the major analog electrical
components including sources, resistors, capacitors and
inductors.
3.  Semiconductor electronics including diodes, transistors,
LEDs and laser diodes
4.  Use of digital electronic chips including logic gates, counters
and displays
5.  Electrical laboratory practice including bread-boarding, wirewrapping, soldering, printed circuit-board design and
debugging.
6.  Function and use of test equipment including power supplies,
function generators, multimeters and oscilloscopes.
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Attendance
Not the law, but still a good idea
•  Lecture: This class will use a combination of flipped
classroom and just-in-time teaching.
–  Flipped classroom. Videos and lecture notes are posted online.
Watch these before class. If you understand the material, great!
We’ll use class time to solve problems or add to your
understanding. If you are confused, that’s also good - come to
lecture with questions and we’ll un-confuse you.
–  Just-in-time teaching. How will we know if you understand or
are confused? Every lecture has an online quiz that tests key
understanding. This quiz closes at 8 AM the day of the lecture.
I look at the results and use this to guide the lecture to the areas
of confusion.
•  Labs: You have to come to lab. There are ~80
students in class and many more in the other EE
classes, so there will generally be no make-up labs
possible without a medical or other emergency as
detailed in the previous two pages.
•  Tests: It is a huge effort to write a unique exam for
just one student who missed a midterm. Thus, like the
labs, there will not be make-up possibilities unless you
meet the conditions on the previous two pages.
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Reference books
Students in past semesters have
wanted a reference book. Here are
several suggestions:
•  This is used in the ECEE sophomore-level digital
course, so if you take that course, you’ll already have
the book: Stephen Brown and Zvonko Vranesic,
"Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design,"
2'nd ed.
•  This is used in the analog class. This one seems to
have a new edition every year, so you may not save on
your sophomore texts: Roland E. Thomas, Albert J.
Rosa and Gregory J. Toussiant, “The Analysis and
Design of Linear Circuits,” 7th Edition
•  This is written at the level of this class, although we
don’t follow it exactly. It’s also cheap(er) at $50:
Daniel Kaplan and Christopher White, “Hands-On
Electronics”
•  Finally, there are lots of good materials on line. See
references section of website.
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Prelab (10%)
•  Purpose 1: practice the class material
•  Purpose 2: prepare for the Friday lab
•  Late policy:
–  If you don’t do the HW before the lab, you will be
unprepared, wasting TA time and potentially damaging
equipment. Thus, there is no allowance for turning in
the HW late (outside of legal stuff, already mentioned).
HW is due at the beginning of your lab Friday. You will
still be allowed to do the lab, but do not expect the TA
to exclusively help you through it.
–  Late submissions must be for a good reason, cleared
by a TA and will be emailed to the TA.
–  Solutions will be posted the following Monday, so 50%
credit is the penalty past this point.
•  Working together: This is encouraged. BUT You will
not have your support network on the tests. So don’t
just copy.
•  All homework will be turned in electronically via D2L
dropbox in the pdf format, labeled only with your
student number.
•  See peer grading instructions on the references
portion of the website
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Lab reports (20%)
•  These are your permanent record and how you are
graded on each lab. They are typed documents, one
for each lab group.
•  See reference section of website for sample reports.
•  Avoid plagiarism! If you use text or a figure from the
internet or elsewhere, include a reference. It’s easy
and can save you a whole lot of pain (like an honor
code violation).
•  Extra credit is available on most labs.
•  Due one week after the lab, Friday in the lab.
•  Late labs must be pre-approved by your TA, for a
good reason and emailed to the TA. 50% credit is
the maximum after solutions are posted Monday.
•  The TAs have the authority to accept or reject late
work since it causes them extra work. Please do not
ask me to approve late work - I will always refer you
to the TAs.
•  All labs will be turned in electronically via D2L
dropbox in the pdf format, labeled only with your
student number.
•  See peer grading instructions on the references
portion of the website
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Pre-class warm up (5%)
•  Studies have shown that you learn considerably
more if you read the class material before
lecture and formulate questions.
•  I will post materials on the class website to the
right of each lecture notes link and one or more
questions on Desire2Learn, the CU class
m a n a g e m e n t s y s t e m a t
https://learn.colorado.edu/
•  The quizzes will turn off at 8 AM the day of
class. In the two hours before class, I will look
at the results and tailor the in-class time to the
results.
•  You get 100% for trying the quiz. You could
thus just log on and type in any answer. It’s
your education….
•  After you try the quiz, you will see some text to
make you think, but the right answer is not
revealed.
•  Solutions will be posted in the notes before tests
for study purposes.
•  The purpose of these is to make you think and
possibly get confused before class. Thus, if you
come to class confused, you have achieved
success.
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Project (25%)
•  This is what the class is all about.
•  Why?
Because study after study has
shown that you will learn massively more
through this approach than a traditional
lecture/homework/test system.
•  It will be hard and occasionally unpleasant.
That’s why it works.
•  You will not be spoon-fed.
You are
responsible for the concepts, layouts,
designs, schedules, implementation,
debugging and successful demonstration of
a digital clock at the end of the semester
during the regular final period.
•  Worried? Good. Don’t get too worried or
too complacent, however.
•  Obviously, we’ll help. A lot. But you are in
charge.
•  Up to 10% (35/25 semester points) extra
credit is available lieu of curve grading.
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Exams (10,10,10%)
•  I n l i e u o f a f i n a l , w e ’ l l h a v e a
“comprehensive” exam near the end of the
semester and do a project expo during the
regular finals time.
•  Exams will be in class and will be drawn
from the HW, labs, lecture notes and warmup problems.
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Peer grading
(10%)
•  What? You will each grade
one HW and one lab each
week.
•  Why?
1.  You will learn the material better by
seeing the solution immediately after
you finish and seeing other’s
mistakes.
2.  You will learn to write by reading
others possibly poor writing.
3.  You will free up TA time so that they
can spend all their time in the lab,
helping you.
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Details
•  Everything (HW, lab reports, grades)
turned in electronically.
•  Everything due by midnight Friday.
•  The D2L “Calendar” will show many of
the deadlines and is a good way to keep
track of them.
•  A Google forms link will be provided to
enter the grades.
•  Notes on lab writing via comments in pdf
and uploaded, again, electronically.
•  No paper is used at any point.
•  See instructions for peer grading on
reference portion of website.
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Grading the grading
•  Who grades what
–  Each prelab will be graded by one student.
–  Each lab report will be graded by 3 students.
–  You will be able to flag any part of an
assignment as needed TA attention via the
Google form for grade submission. The
grader is not penalized in any way for this.
•  Quality checks
–  The TAs will randomly sample the grading to
monitor for quality.
–  Lab report grades that differ markedly from the
other two will receive TA attention.
–  Students who feel they have not received a
fair grade are strongly encouraged to bring
this to the attention of a TA.
•  How the grader is graded (for each)
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10% of your grade for 7 prelabs + 7 labs
Turning in your grading on time = 100%
Turning in your grading late = 0%
TA must significantly change = 0%
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