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General

The labs and tutorials are the main parts of the course. They have been designed to engage you with the material discussed in lectures so that you learn it thoroughly by doing calculations, computer simulations and hardware experiments. The labs and tutorials are organised as follows:

• Computer Labs/Tutorials. Software packages for electronics analysis and design provide powerful tools for you to learn about electronics. You can easily experiment with circuits and learn how they work. You can put theory into practice without spending the time to do a hardware experiment. You can check your theoretical calculations against the simulation results.

  The tutorials will be held in the PC labs and each two hour session will have a sequence of exercises for you to complete. A tutor will be available to help you. You may need to complete the exercises in your own time. Additional exercises from the textbooks will also be given.

  Assessment is described in section 1.4.

• Hardware Labs. Practicing engineers need to be able to build things and get them working. Calculations and simulations reduce the need for time consuming hardware experimentation, but ultimately the final design needs to be implemented and tested in hardware. As always, lab work can be something of an art, and there are numerous tricks of the trade to learn.

  A sequence of hardware lab sessions will be held in the Engineering Electronics Labs. Each two and a half hour session will have a sequence of exercises for you to complete. A tutor will be available to help you.

  Assessment is described in section 1.4.

A web version of these Lab and Tutorial Notes is available from the ENGN2211 home pages, with links to PSPICE files.

Enjoy and learn!

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