Electronics and Control Laboratory

On Monday, June 23, the EIL students worked on two laboratory assignments from 1pm to 5pm (with a 30 minute break) in the Electronics and Control Laboratory in the Diamond. The learning outcomes of the first laboratory assignment included i) the ability to make basic measurements using a range of electronic test and measurement equipment, ii) the ability to appreciate the importance of tolerances and errors, and discover some reasons why some measurement instruments can report values with different levels of precision and accuracy, iii) the ability to build and test electronics circuits on a breadboard and printed circuit board, and iv) the ability to write/use a C program for an Arduino microcontroller to blink a LED.  The learning outcomes of the second laboratory assignment included i) the ability to use electronic test and measurement devices to make measurements on frequency-dependent circuits, ii) the ability to identify key frequency domain features of passive circuit responses, and iii) the ability to discover physical reasons why experimental measurements differ from theoretical expectations.  Both labs were designed by Prof. Raja Toqeer, Senior University Teacher for Computing, Control and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield.