Laboratory Report: Reports are to be submitted by each individual.A Laboratory report will be required after the completion of each laboratory assignment. A lab report cannot be
submitted if the lab was not attended. Every student must submit an individual report before the beginning of lab on eCampus. E-mailed lab reports will not be
accepted. Members of the same group may share the design but they must have their own, individual answers and conclusions, including any answers to pre/post lab
questions. Reports will always be due at the beginning of the next lab session. A 10% penalty will be applied for each day that the report is late. Copying lab reports
will not be tolerated and will result in a zero grade as well as be reported to social justice.
A Lab report should consist of the following parts and should be WRITTEN IN YOUR OWN WORDS:
1) Title Page The title page should include your name, experiment number and title, lab partner name, and the date the lab was performed.
2) IntroductionThis section should include a brief overview of the lab and should not be written in great detail. What is the problem you are trying to solve and why is it worth
solving? What useful information should this experiment provide?
3) Experiment Under the experiment heading you should state what you are trying to accomplish on a particular part of the lab and HOW you accomplished it. What methods/techniques
did you use? Design work should go in this section. This should include schematics, truth tables, equations, or anything else you used in designing or setting up
your experiment.
4) Results The result section should contain the results (data) that you obtained from implementing the experiment as well as an analysis of the results(Explain what the results
were and if they were what you expected? How so?). The results could be a truth table of actual results obtained, or it could be a description of what worked, what
didn’t work, and why it worked or didn’t work. If VHDL code is used to obtain results always include it in this section. Include pre/post lab questions at the end of
this section.
5) Conclusion This section should include what you learned from the lab. Please include how you think the lab could be improved for the future. Do not simply summarize the
experiment. This is your chance to give feedback on the lab and voice your opinions.
The following characteristics are expected of each lab report:• Professionalism/Neatness• Not pictures of handwritten notes• Labeled figures and tables• Not pictures of figures from your phone• Commented code• Acceptable grammar and punctuation• ALL wiring information/schematics (clearly labeled)• DO NOT copy and paste text straight from handout
The report requires considerable thought to present the information in a logical and concise manner. All reports should be computer generated, using a word processing
program and any other applications needed for plotting, drawing, and analysis. Points will be deducted for lab reports with poorly drawn diagrams or hand-written
answers.
The “experiment” and “results” section should be based on individual parts of the lab, so it’s likely you will have multiple “experiment” and “results” sections. For
example, a lab report for an experiment with three parts would be outlined as follows:
Title Page
Introduction
Part I: Experiment ResultsPart II: Experiment ResultsPart III: Experiment ResultsPre/Post Lab Questions (graded as part of the results section)
Conclusion