| Week |
Lecture Topic, Laboratory
Exercise | Reading
Assignment
| Homework
Assignment
|
| 1 (8/25 - 8/29) |
- course introduction
- Project
assignment
- mechatronics and measurement systems
- electric circuit
fundamentals
- input and output impedance
Introduction to Lab
policies and procedures
Lab
1: Introduction - resistor codes, breadboard, and basic measurements
(no
quiz this week) | handouts,
Ch. 1;
App A.1;
2.1 - 2.4 | 0:
sign up for the MECH307-L
course Listserv
survey
sheet
(due Fri, 8/29)
1: 2.2 [20 pts], 2.10 [10 pts],
2.15 [10 pts], 2.18 [20 pts], 2.20 [10 pts],
2.28 [10 pts], 2.29 [20 pts]
[100 points total]
(due Fri, 9/5)
|
| 2 (9/1
- 9/5) | Labor Day (no class on Monday, 9/1)
- AC circuits introduction
- semiconductors, diodes
Lab
2: Instrument familiarization and basic electrical relations |
2.6 - 2.10;
| 2:
3.1 [5 pts], 3.4 [10 pts],
3.11 [5 pts], 3.12 [30 pts]
[50 points
total]
(due Mon, 9/15)
project
purchase a 3-ring binder and
set up "Week ##" dividers;
print,
read, and insert the
project description
(due
Week 3)
|
| 3 (9/8 - 9/12) |
- diodes (continued)
- transistors
- digital
electronics
- number codes
- combinational logic
Lab
3: The oscilloscope |
Ch. 3;
6.1 - 6.5
|
project
watch videos
of past projects;
brainstorm ideas and
document with rough
sketches
and descriptions;
show evidence of evaluation
based on project grading criteria
(due Week 4)
|
| 4 (9/15
- 9/19) | - design of logic networks
-
sequential logic
- flip-flops
- project info
- get ahead or catch up
Lab
5 (not Lab 4): Transistor circuits | 6.6
- 6.9 | 3: 6.7 [45 pts], 6.13 [15
pts],
6.25 [15 pts], 6.33 [25 pts],
6.35 [20 pts], 6.42 [15 pts]
[135
points total]
(due Fri, 9/26)
|
| 5 (9/22
- 9/26) | - flip-flop applications
- counters,
timers, oscillators
- Exam I Review
- microcontrollers and the PIC
Lab
7 (not Lab 6): Digital circuits - logic and latching |
6.10 - 6.13
7.1 - 7.4 | project
refine your project idea and
set realistic goals;
document selected
idea
(due Week 6)
|
| 6 (9/29
- 10/3) |
EXAM
I - Wednesday, 10/1
Lab
8: Digital circuits - counter and LED display |
7.5 - 7.9 | project
develop and document
project plans, define your problem,
draw a functional
diagram,
list I/O requirements, start the proposal
(due
Week 7)
|
| 7 (10/6 - 10/10) |
- PIC examples
- PIC interfacing
- measurement system characteristics
- Fourier
series
- frequency response
Lab
9: Programming a PIC Microcontroller - Part I
Project work
| 4.1-4.7 |
project
complete the proposal,
research
and order sensors,
actuators, and special
components (e.g., additional
or
alternative PICs)
(due Week 8)
prepare files for Lab
10
(in lieu of quiz)
|
| 8 (10/13
- 10/17) | - system response (0th, 1st,
2nd order systems)
- 2nd order system response
- modeling analogies
Project proposal due (Wednesday, 10/15)
- midterm group
and course evaluations
- operational amplifier
Lab
10: Programming a PIC Microcontroller - Part II
Project work
| 4.8-4.11;
5.1-5.4 |
4: 4.4 [10 pts], 4.6 [30 pts],
4.8 [10 pts], 4.10
[20 pts],
4.21 [15 pts], 4.26 [15 pts],
6.46 (from Ch. 6) [15 pts]
[115
points total]
(due Mon, 10/20)
project
finish researching and ordering
sensors, actuators, and special
components
(due
Week 9)
|
| 9 (10/20 - 10/24) |
- operational amplifier
- characteristics
of real op amps
- data acquisition
- digital to analog,
analog to digital conversion
- project info/advice/help
- batteries
- relays
- power rating
Lab
11: Pulse-Width-Modulation Motor Speed Control with a PIC |
5.5-5.14;
Ch. 8;
Lab
15
|
5: 5.5 [20 pts], 5.10 [20 pts],
5.14 [50 pts], 5.18 [10
pts]
[100 points total]
(due Mon, 10/27)
project
get basic components from your TA;
demonstrate a basic working circuit
(e.g.,
basic input and/or output
with a working PIC)
(due Week 10)
|
| 10 (10/27 - 10/31) |
- position measurement
- switches
- potentiometer
- LVDT
- digital
encoder
- Exam II Review
Lab
4 (not Lab 12): Bandwidth, filters, and diodes |
9.1, 9.2
| 6: 8.5
[20 pts], 8.6 [15 pts],
8.7 [15 pts]
[50 points total]
(due Fri, 10/31)
project
start designing and testing
circuits for additional functional elements
(e.g., audio, sensor, actuator),
developing
the PicBasic code
incrementally
(due Week 11)
|
|
11 (11/3 - 11/7) |
- motor
fundamentals
- stepper motor control
EXAM
II - Friday, 11/7
Lab
6: Operational amplifier circuits | Ch. 10
| project
draw functional diagram,
draw detailed wiring diagram;
start work
on mechanical components
and support hardware
(due Week 12)
|
| 12 (11/10 - 11/14) |
- stress/strain introduction
- strain gages
- Wheatstone bridge
- strain
gage rosette
- Strain Gage Lab analysis
- signature analysis
Lab
Practical Exam
(show up at times scheduled by TAs)
Project work |
App C;
9.3, 9.5 | project
assemble the final circuits,
create a complete
software flowchart,
and continue to develop
PicBasic code incrementally
(due Week 13)
|
| 13 (11/17 - 11/21) |
- piezoelectric accelerometers
- temperature measurement - introduction
-
thermocouple relations
- comprehensive case study example
Lab
12: A/D conversion (demonstration)
Lab
13: Strain gage (demonstrations and analysis)
Lab
14: Vibration measurement with an accelerometer (demonstration)
Project
work | 9.4 |
7: 9.5 [15 pts], 9.9 [30 pts],
9.16 [25 pts], 9.21 [30
pts]
[100 points total]
(due Fri, 12/5)
project
finish fabricating the entire system |
| 14 (11/24
- 11/28) | Thanksgiving Break (no classes) | |
|
| 15 (12/1
- 12/5) | Project early-bird award deadline
(5
pm, Tuesday, 12/2)
- comprehensive case study example (continued)
Project
work | |
project
testing, final tweaking,
finishing
touches |
| 16 (12/8 - 12/12)
| - more motor stuff
- final group
and course evaluations
- Final Exam review
- selected Project
presentations
Project final reviews
in Lab
(final report due in your Lab section) | |
project
evaluation |
| |
FINAL EXAM (Friday, 12/19, 7 - 9 am) |
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