Department of Mechanical Engineering
2.737 Mechatronics
Spring 2006
Lab Information
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.
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