Junior-Year Laboratory

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This course is intended to secure and to extend student knowledge of sophomore fundamentals by posing multi-week laboratory exercises in the Junior year that move beyond the lab exercises required of Sophomores. Students will: Apply human safety limits to proposed electrical work and assess the suitability of a given circuit component to a proposed voltage or current; Design, implement, and test a high-gain, discrete-transistor amplifier, including an assessment of its linearity; Design, implement, and test circuits combining analog and digital components and concepts; Implement switching circuits for currents over one amp; Use modern benchtop test equipment; Produce substantial reports - at least one written and one oral. Prerequisites: ECE 211 and ECE 231