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University of West Florida Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 

EEL3111L — Electric Circuits Laboratory Fall 2018 Course Syllabus (Fort 


Walton Beach) 
 
Instructor Mr. Lee Fulton 
Office​ - None. Contact can be made by email (preferred) at LFulton@uwf.edu. When contacting me by 
email, utilize your UWF email address to ensure that your message is not blocked and explicitly note the 
course number (i.e., EEL3111L) in the subject line. 
Office Hours​ - None. Hours can be arranged; contact me ahead of time to make sure that I am available. 
Course Web Page​ All course handouts (e.g., syllabus, laboratory experiment handouts, supplemental 
laboratory handouts, etc.) will be posted to Canvas. 
Required Text​ J. Nilsson and S. Riedel Electric Circuits, 11th Edition, Prentice Hall (ISBN: 
9780134746968). (This book is the required text for EEL3111.) 
Prerequisites/Corequisites​ The course corequisite is EEL3111. (Note that if EEL3111 is dropped 
during the semester, then EEL3111L must also be dropped.) 
Laboratory Time & Place​ Tuesday 4:00pm to 6:45pm in Fort Walton Beach 7/750. 
Topics​ The topics covered are determined by the laboratory experiments done. As such, refer to the 
section Schedule of Laboratory Experiments below. 
Student Learning Outcomes​ At the end of the semester, students should be able to utilize basic 
electrical bench equipment (e.g., multimeter, DC supply, function generator and oscilloscope) to examine 
analog circuits involving resistors, capacitors, inductors and operational amplifiers in both the time and 
frequency domains. In addition, students should have the ability to solder and test a surface mount printed 
circuit board. 
Course Relationship to Program​ Objectives​ See the course master syllabus located in Canvas. 
Course Relationship to Program Outcomes​ See the course master syllabus located in Canvas. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Attendance​ Attendance during laboratory sessions is mandatory. Missing a laboratory session without 
informing the instructor in advance (unless a dire emergency arises) will result in a grade of zero (0) for 
the laboratory report, and, if applicable, the corresponding prelab. In the case of an excused absence, a 
makeup lab meeting will be arranged typically outside of normal lab hours. 
Schedule of Laboratory Experiments​ The schedule shown in Table 1 presents the laboratory 
experiments that will be completed throughout the semester and the associated tentative dates. (If a date 
needs to be changed, an announcement will be made by email as well as during a laboratory session.) 
Note that prelabs and final reports are due at the appropriate Canvas dropbox no later than 3:00pm on the 
date noted. Note that a single submission is made by each person in the group for the preliminary report 
and the final report to the appropriate dropbox. 
 

Experiment Number  Prelab  Data Collection  Final Report 

Orientation  N/A  4 Sept  N/A 

Lab 1  N/A  11 Sept  18 Sept 

Lab 2  18 Sept  18 Sept  25 Sept 

Lab 3  N/A  25 Sept  2 Oct 

Lab 9a  N/A  2 Oct  N/A 

Lab 9b  N/A  9 Oct  N/A 

Lab 4  16 Oct  16 Oct  23 Oct 

Lab 5  23 Oct  23 Oct  30 Oct 

Lab 6  30 Oct  30 Oct  13 Nov 

Lab 7  13 Nov  13 Nov  27 Nov 

Lab 8  27 Nov  27 Nov  4 Dec 

Lab 9c  4 Dec  4 Dec  7 Dec 


Table 1.​ Tentative Laboratory Experiment Date Schedule 
Note:  Lab  #9  will  be completed using three different lab meetings. Lab 9a will be utilized to solder surface mount components to 
a  printed  circuit  board,  Lab  9b  will  be  utilized  to  complete  soldering  and/or  fix soldering mistakes and Lab 9c will be testing of 
the printed circuit board circuit. 
 
 
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Preliminary  and  final  reports  are  electronic  submissions  in  the  form  of  a  PDF.  (Note  that  a  single 
submission  is  made  by  each  person  in  the  group  for  the  preliminary  report  and  the  final  report  to  the 
appropriate  dropbox).  Calculations  can  be  done  by  hand  for  the  preliminary  report  (utilize  only 
engineering  paper  or  white  unlined  paper)  and  scanned  utilizing  the  Fort  Walton  Beach  7/762  scanner 
while  all  work  for  the  final  report  (except  for  the  graded  prelab)  must  be  word  processed. 
LibreOffice/OpenOffice  as  well  as  Word  can  be  used  to  generate  PDF  files  natively.  Another  option  for 
creating  a  PDF  file  is  to  utilize  the  freely  available  doPDF,  which  installs  as  a  PDF  printer  on  the 
computer.  See  https://elearning.uwf.edu  to  obtain  doPDF.  (Note  that  information  on  the  format  for 
preliminary reports and final reports is provided in a separate handout available in Canvas. 
Grading​ Your final grade will be comprised of only preliminary and laboratory reports, all of which will 
have an equal weight. That is, 20 points will be allocated to each report with 5 points for the preliminary 
report, and the remaining 15 points for the final report. (If there is no preliminary report — Lab #1 and 
Lab #3 fall into this category — then all 20 points will be assigned to the final report.) The end of 
semester grades will be assigned based on numerical averages as follows. 
93 ≤ A ≤ 100  
90 ≤ A− ≤ 92 
87 ≤ B+ ≤ 89  
83 ≤ B ≤ 86  
80 ≤ B− ≤ 82 
75 ≤ C+ ≤ 79  
70 ≤ C ≤ 74 
65 ≤ D+ ≤ 69 
60 ≤ D ≤ 64 
0 ≤ F ≤ 59 
Note  that  a  grade  of  incomplete  (I)  will  only  be  issued  to  a  student if all requirements stated in the UWF 
undergraduate catalog have been met.  
See http://catalog.uwf.edu/undergraduate/gradeadjustment/#incompletegradestext. 
Assistance for Special Needs Students​ The University of West Florida supports an inclusive learning 
environment for all students. If there are aspects of the instruction or design of this course that hinder 
your full participation, reasonable accommodations can be arranged. Prior to receiving accommodations, 
you must register with the Student Disability Resource Center by filling out an Enrollment Application. 
Appropriate academic accommodations will be determined based on the documented needs of the student. 
For information regarding the registration process, email sdrc@uwf.edu or call 850.474.2387. 
 
 
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Academic Integrity​ Th​ere are specific expectations of students for any academic work done at UWF. 
Please refer to http://uwf.edu/offices/dean-of-students/office-of-student-rights-and-responsibilit 
ies/academic-misconduct-code-and-forms/ for the policies and procedures regarding academic conduct 
and plagiarism. For this course, all laboratory preliminary reports and final reports must be an individual 
effort for each group submission. (That is, work effort should be shared within a group, but it can not be 
shared among groups.) 
 

General Information Important deadlines​ for withdrawal from courses are listed in the Fall 2018 
academic calendar found at http://uwf.edu/media/university-of-west-florida/offices/registrar/document 
s-pdf/pdf/2017-2018-Academic-Calendar-for-Web.pdf. If there are no questions during laboratory 
sessions or during office hours, then the assumption is that all students understand all topics being 
covered in laboratory exercises. Also, the course instructor reserves the right to make changes to the 
course syllabus with adequate notice to students. Finally, the information contained in this syllabus is 
obtained from the ABET master syllabus located in Canvas. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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