ECE 112 - Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering

When:
   Meets Tuesday and Thursday 10:00-10:50 pm

Where:
    CORD 1109

Lecturers:
    Dr. Wojtek Kolodziej
    Office:                        303 ECE Bldg.      E-Mail:    wojtek@ece.orst.edu
    Office Hours:             TBA

    Roger Traylor
    Office:               238 ECE Bldg.               E-mail:     traylor@ece.orst.edu
    Office Hours:   3-4pm Tuesday and Thursday

TAs:
List of TAs, their lab times and email addresses

New information: last update: 1/2/02, 5:17pm

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Class Goals

The goals of ECE 112, Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering are: (1) to introduce basic concepts in Electrical and Computer Engineering in a integrated manner, (2) to motivate basic concepts in the context of a simple student constructed robot, and (3) to illustrate a logical way of thinking about problems and their solutions.

Lecture Topics

• Electrons, Current, Voltage and basic definitions.
• Circuit elements and schematics.
• Resistors and Ohms law.
• Modeling circuits with voltage and current sources.
• Power calculations.
• Applying Kirchoff's Voltage and Current laws to analyze simple circuits.
• Analyzing basic circuits with the circuit simulator SPICE.
• Analyzing basic transistor and diode circuits.
• Understanding the operation of logic gates.
• Computer architecture and microcontrollers
• Analysis of the Robot circuits.

Required Reading

The notes for each lab will also be posted in the syllabus. You must read these before going to lab. If you don't you will likely not finish the lab. For some labs, there is some preliminary work to do before you come to lab.

Prerequisites

Getting Class information

The mailgroup is how I communicate with you outside the classroom. It can also be used as an interactive forum where you discuss problems and solutions. Such usage is encouraged. Its OK if you discuss answers to homework or your approach to solving a problem, but providing complete solutions is forbidden.

Students who register early for ECE112 during the fall term are automatically given ECE computing accounts and are added to the class mail list. You will receive a notification from the list manager when you are added to the list.

The name of the class list for ECE112 is: class-ece112@orst.edu This name is case sensitive.

Laboratory

What you will need for lab:
A major portion of this class (and of your grade) involves building and subsequent debugging of a robot. This year for the first time, we have a robot designed here at OSU that allows us to the lecture and lab topics together better.

Lab Kit Costs (2002 prices)
Robot kit : $85.00
Tool Kit: : $10.00
Robot Kit & Tool Kit : $95.00

The Robot kit is the only mandatory purchase if you are proficient with soldering and have your own tools. We will be selling the required tools and robot kits during the first lab session during the week of Janurary 6th. It is very important that you bring $95 dollars cash or a personal check with you to the first lab session.

If you have the proper tools to build the kits, you do not need to buy tools. Here are the tools you will need:

Tools needed
  * Flat Head Screw Driver
  * Philips Head Screwdriver
  * Write Strippers
  * Side (diagonals) Cutters
  * Needle Nose Pliers
  * Solder (rosin core) and Solder Wick
  * Safety Goggles

Soldering irons are supplied in the lab. We have obtained industrial quality irons to make learning to solder as easy as possible.

If you have never soldered, or may have forgotten how to, you may want to review the soldering tutorial we have here: soldering tutorial

alternate soldering tutorial

If you have all the tools and also a soldering iron, you are free to work on the robot kit at your residence.

All lab sections meet in DH302.

Lab Conduct
No food or drink is allowed in the lab. No horseplay is allowed. Take care of the lab equipment. We can have a fun time with some of the labs if we act like mature adults.

Homework

Sometime Monday evening, the link to the homework solutions will be reestablished so you can check your homework procedures and answers.

Your lab TA will grade your homework. Your lab TA will also return your homework to you in lab. Therefore,..... questions about homework grading should be directed to your lab TA. (suprise!) If you cannot resolve a grading issue with your TA, talk it over with Dr. Kolodziej or Mr. Traylor at our office hours. Homework is to be submitted on "cut edge" paper. i.e., no paper torn from spiral wound notebooks. The standard in engineering is green engineering computation paper. Homework submitted on non-cut edge paper will be rejected.

Each page of your homework should have your name, class name, lab TA name(s), and lab section.
Like this:     Joe Blow    ECE 112 Lab     Susie TA    Tuesday 4pm

Homework problems will be first stated, and then solved in a neat professional fashion. Sloppy work will be subject to points off at the discretion of your lab TA. I will support their objections to sloppy work. All work must be shown for full credit.

Each homework problem (or problem section) will be graded either a 2 (correct), 1 (partial awareness), 0 (not even close).

No late homework will be accepted. Exceptions are made in the case of serious illness or life issues. My discretion.

Grading

Lab grades are based on your robot working correctly. Ample help will available to help those with "misbehaving" robots.

The exams are constructed such that if you understand all the lecture material, and can do all the homework without help, you will do well.

Current Grades
Final Grades - Broken
Fixed Final Grades

ECE 112 - Schedule and Assignments

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