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Welcome to the EG1003 Online Lab Manual website. This site contains all the academic material you need for the course. For administrative matters such as lab report submission, please visit eg.poly.edu.

You can click on anything underlined on this page to link to the material.

Course Information

• Comments from Course Director
• The Course
• Structure
• Absence and Lateness Policies
• Teamwork
• Ethics
• Plagiarism
• How to Use the EG1003 Websites
• How to Submit Work to the EG1003 Website
• EG1003 Grading Policy
• Safety Guidelines
• Keeping Your Laboratory Notebook

PowerPoint Presentations

• Introduction to EG1003
• Introduction to EG1003 (Section HS1 Only)
• Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
• Safety Guidelines

Laboratory Experiments

Write-ups

• Lab 1 - Software for Engineers
• Lab 1A - Mousetrap Car
• Lab 2 - Hot Air Balloon
• Lab 3 - Product Evaluation and Quality Improvement
  • Green  •  Red  •  Yellow
• Lab 4 - Introduction to LabVIEW
• Lab 5 - Digital Logic
• Lab 6 - Model Shop Session
• Lab 7 - DNA Extraction and Gel Analysis (Sections C and E/H Only)
  • DNA Prelab
• Lab 7 - Electronic Filters (Sections A, B, D, G, and HS2 Only)
• Lab 8 - Lemon Car Competition
• Lab 9 - Model Shop Session
• Lab 10 - Heat Transfer and Thermal Insulation
• Lab 11 - Boom Construction Competition

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• Sensors
  • Sensors Prelab
• Microphone Design Competition
• Design Failure: Cause & Effect

PowerPoint Presentations

• Lab 1 - Software for Engineers
• Lab 1A - Mousetrap Car
• Lab 2 - Hot Air Balloon
• Lab 3 - Product Evaluation & Quality Improvement
• Lab 4 - Introduction to LabVIEW
• Lab 5 - Digital Logic
• Lab 6 - Model Shop Session
• Lab 7 - DNA Extraction and Gel Analysis (Sections C and E/H Only)
• Lab 7 - Electronic Filters (Sections A, B, D, G, and HS2 Only)
• Lab 8 - Lemon Car Competition
• Lab 9 - Model Shop Session
• Lab 10 - Heat Transfer and Thermal Insulation
• Lab 11 - Boom Construction Competition

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• Sensors

Semester-Long Design Project

Project Information

• Semester-Long Project Presentation (10MB!)
• Railroad Train Guidance System (RTGS)
• Supermarket Logistics System (SLS)
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
• Bomb Disarming Robot (BDR)
• Search & Recovery Robot (SRR)
• Disaster Relief Robot (DRR)
• Retrieval and Delivery System (RDS)
• Security Infiltration Drone (SID)
• Fall 2011 Project Configurations

Benchmark Assessment A Forms

RTGS  •  SLS  •  AUV  •  BDR  •  SRR  •  DRR  •  RDS  •  SID

Benchmark Assessment B Forms

RTGS  •  SLS  •  AUV  •  BDR  •  SRR  •  DRR  •  RDS  •  SID

Commissioning Forms

RTGS  •  SLS  •  AUV  •  BDR  •  SRR  •  DRR  •  RDS  •  SID

Project Submission Form

Help & How-Tos

Technical Writing

• What Is It?
• Your Audience and Purpose
• Introduction
• Specifications for Writing Your Lab Reports
• Quick Comparison of Lab Presentation and Report Specifications
• Introductions and Conclusions
• Active and Passive Voice
• Creating a Logical Argument
• Descriptions - Mechanism and Process
• Writing Numbers, Units of Measure, and Equations
• Graphics in Technical Reports
• Writing Software Documentation
• How to Write an Effective Resume
• Persuasion
• Team Authoring Strategies
• Editing
• Punctuation
• The Use of Articles

WC Presentations

• How to Write Lab Reports in EG1003
• Passive Voice
• Citing Sources
• Formatting Numbers
• Using Capital Letters
• Verb Tense in Lab Reports
• Professional Tone
• Resumes
• Sentence Combining
• Commas
• Writing Consultant Teamwork Presentation

Sample Work

This section contains two imaginary labs and typical submissions that would be associated with them.

• Introduction to the Sample Labs

Regular Lab

• Lab 1701 - Faster-than-light Travel
• Annotated lab report
• Lab report
• Annotated presentation
• Presentation

Competition Lab

• Lab 500 - Stock Car Racer
• Annotated lab report
• Lab report
• Annotated presentation
• Presentation

Design Project

This section was added in Fall 2011 and is still under construction. Sample SLDP documents will be posted as they become available.

• Mock SLDP
• Milestone 1 (9/27)
• Milestone 2 (10/13)
• Milestone 3 (11/3)
• Final Presentation (11/28)

Technical Presentations

• EG1003 Lab Presentation Format
• How to Give a Recitation Presentation
• EG1003 Project Milestone Presentation Format
• How to give a Milestone Presentation
• How to give the Final Project Presentation
• Giving Effective Presentations
• Effective Slide Formats
• Giving the Presentation
• Blunders to Avoid
• Making Good Looking Equations in PowerPoint Presentations

Semester-Long Design Project

• Microsoft Project Skill Builder
• How to plan the schedule and calculate costs for a project
• Price list for Lego parts for robot projects
• MLCad Web site, including tutorials
• Alternatives to MLCad
• AutoCAD Skill Builder
• MLCad Skill Builder
• Lego Digital Designer Skill Builder
• Installing and Using MLCAD (zip file)
• Exporting MLCAD to AutoCAD
• NXT Bluetooth User Guide

Miscellaneous

• How to erase old programs from the NXT memory
• How to read documents made in Office 2007 in Office 2003
• How to Capture PC Screen Images
• How to Compress Your Files
• How to Include Pictures, Equations, and Spreadsheets in Your Presentations and Lab Reports
• How to Change Pictures so They Don't Take Up So Much Space
• How to Show Cost Data in Presentations
• How to Put Video Files in presentations
• How to Handle Unusual Data
• Submitting EG1003 Work to the Digital Dropbox
• How to Clean Up Your Initial "MyPoly" Screen
• How to Troubleshoot Lab Equipment
• Introduction to NI-ELVIS

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