Electronics Laboratory
The Electronics Laboratory serves EENG 303L and EENG 304L, the 1-credit laboratory courses that accompany EENG 303 Electronics I and EENG 304 Electronics II, respectively. Students take Electronics I in the fall semester and Electronics II in the spring semester of their junior year. These are required core courses for all electrical engineering and computer engineering students.
The Electronics Laboratory teaches students to deal with non-linear and active components, including rectifying and zener diodes, operational amplifiers, and bipolar junction and field effect transistors. Students learn to characterize these components and to design and analyze circuits containing them.
In the Electronics Laboratory, students enhance their laboratory techniques. They learn proper methods for gain and impedance measurement, and breadboarding techniques to avoid noise and instability in active circuits. Students gain confidence in working with a wide variety of components. Through graded formal laboratory reports, students learn to adequately document their work and formulate conclusions and recommendations from what they have done.