Course Announcements:

First day of lecture.

We will have lecture in 1-242 on Friday.

Lecture is today in 1-242 since today is treated as a Monday.

Prelab and Lab 2 are posted under Schedule

Lab 3 is going to be delayed.

The dSPACE dsa files are here: 1 , 2 , 3 . You need all three in the same directory. You can obtain the frequency response of an RC circuit by connecting DAC1 across the RC in series with the ADC1 across the R or C. Build dsa_demo.mdl to your dSPACE board. Run dsa_demo.m and feel free to modify as you see fit. The comments at the start of dsa_tf2.m explain how things work.

Faculty:

Prof. David L. Trumper

    Office Hrs: MW 11am-12:30pm

Rm. 35-130

x3-3481

trumper@mit.edu

Teaching Assistant:

David Cuff
    Office Hrs: T and TH 3-4pm

Rm. 1-004

x8-8729

dpcuff@mit.edu

Course Administrative Assistant:

Laura Zaganjori

Rm. 35-134

x8-5620

lauraz@mit.edu

Optional Text: "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill or any electronics text and a classical controls text will be helpful.

Lectures: MWF 10am-11am; Rm. 1-242

The main lectures will generally be on MW, and the Friday time slot will frequently be used by
the TA for a tutorial session.

Laboratory Sessions: Open Hours RM 1-004

The lab facilities are in Rm. 1-004. If you are a registered student in the
class, your MIT card key should give you access to the lab at any time. This freedom to use the
facility also entails the responsibility to take good care of it. Please be sure the lab is locked when
you leave it. Do not let others into the lab; registered students should be able to get in with their
own MIT ID. Please let us know if something is wrong with any of the equipment, and be careful
to leave the lab benches and equipment ready for the next person to use. When you leave, please
be sure equipment other than the computers is powered off.

A prelab will be assigned in the week preceding the lab exercise. The prelab is generally due in
class one week after the lab assignment goes out. Late prelabs will not be accepted. Please turn in
a copy of your work to us, retaining the original, as you will generally need the prelab material
for your lab experiments. Attach the original of your prelab to the back of the lab report, to be
turned in at the lab checkoff.

Your lab report is due at a scheduled checkoff with one of the teaching staff. This checkoff
consists of a 30 minute interview in which we will ask you to demonstrate your working lab
experiments. Checkoffs will be scheduled about a week in advance. Please come to the lab well in
advance of your checkoff to be sure that you have a properly functioning lab setup in order to be
able to demonstrate your system, and make good use of the 30 minute time window. Lab
checkoffs will not generally be rescheduled other than in the event of an emergency or illness.
Late lab reports will not be accepted.

The lab grade will be based upon the prelab (30%), checkoff (35%) and lab report (35%) scores.

Lab Photos

Exams and Homework:

There are no exams and no homework other than the prelabs.

Project:

The final 3 weeks of the course will be devoted to a project which allows more freedom
for individual design choices. The project grade will carry a weight of 2x that of each regular lab
exercise, and will be evaluated by a design review (30%), checkoff (35%), and project report
(35%).

Collaboration policy:

Collaboration in the form of discussion between students is permitted and
encouraged in all aspects of the course. You can learn a great deal from the perspectives of others
in the class. However, what you turn in for prelab, lab, and project reports must be your
individual solution. The checkoffs are one-on-one, and give you a chance to show us your own
understanding of the material. If you make use of insights from another student, good scholarship
entails citing their contribution in your report. We will think more highly of you if we see such
assistance acknowledged.