• Office: Mainiero 152C
• Office hours: MWF 10:00-11:30 am, or by appointment
• Phone: (909) 593-3511 x4125
• E-mail: jtandean@ulv.edu

• P. Horowitz & W. Hill, The Art of Electronics, Second Edition (Cambridge, 1989), ISBN 0521370957
  
• T.C. Hayes & P. Horowitz, Student Manual for The Art of Electronics (Cambridge, 1989), ISBN 0521377099
  
• R.T. Paynter, Introductory Electronic Devices and Circuits: Conventional Flow Version, Seventh Edition (Prentice Hall, 2006), ISBN 0131716417

• The website has complete information about the course (schedule, assignments, solutions, etc.) and should be visited regularly

• Homework is assigned about once a week.
• Each assignment is due at the beginning of class on the due date
• Late submission will be accepted with a penalty of 50% per day (this is because the homework will often help prepare for the day's class and also because the solutions will be posted, on the solutions page, soon after the due date).
• You may work together on the homework, but  what you submit must be your own work. Submitted assignments that look suspiciously similar to each other may receive  zero credits.

• Unannounced quizzes are given about once a week.
• They may be open- or closed-book.
• Each quiz, roughly 10-minutes long, is based on the reading material for the day's class and/or the material covered in the preceding few classes.

• Lab experiments are often interwoven with lectures.
• The experiments follow mainly those described in the textbook. Thus it contains the main lab manual for this course.
• Most of the times, you will be performing the experiments without a lab partner.
• All of your lab work from each chapter of the textbook has to be recorded as a lab report, written as usual in a composition book with quadrille, or quad ruled, pages.
• Each report must be written in pen, not pencil, and include
  • The lab number and title
  • An abstract
    This is essentially a brief summary of the experiment about to be performed (less than one-page long). You should
       (1) list all of the equipment and components you will use,
       (2) describe what measurements you will be making, and
       (3) explain what you hope to learn.
    You may leave one blank page for the abstract and write it after you perform the measurements.
  • Data & analysis
    This section contains data from the measurements, answers to the questions in the manual (and/or from the instructor), the figures for all the circuits used in the experiment as well as any other figures (the figures may be drawn in pencil), and any analyses you are asked to do in the manual (and/or by the instructor). Record the textbook sections to which the measurements belong. Before performing a measurement or answering a question, rewrite (in abbreviated form) the instruction or question.
  • Conclusion
    This essentially contains the answer to the following question: "What did I learn from the experiment, from my data, and from my analysis?" (The conclusion is thus not a summary of what numbers you have obtained.) You should list at least 7 electronics ideas and/or techniques that you have learned or practiced in this lab.
  Neatness counts. If you a make writing mistake, simply write a line across it.

• Each student is to complete a project, consisting of building and formally reporting on an electronic circuit of his/her choice.
• The circuit does not have to be original and can be relatively simple, but it has to be based on one or more of the topics covered in the course and perform an interesting and/or useful function.
• The instructor must approve the project choice by the week of November 13.
• On the scheduled Project Day, each student must make a brief (about 15-minutes long) oral presentation of his/her project and answer questions from the audience.
• The emphasis will be on the functionality, and the student's understanding, of the project, not on its complexity.
• Further information on project choices and the formal report will be given in a week or so.

• One midterm and one final exams will be given.
• Each of the exams has theory and experiment parts.
• The exams may be in-class.

• The lowest homework, quiz, and lab-report scores will be dropped.
• Lab work is an essential part of the course, and therefore only one missed lab or missing report is allowed.
• The final course grade is based on

  homework	15%
  quizzes	5%
  lab reports	30%
  final project	10%
  midterm exam	20%
  final exam	20%

Week of	Class Topics	Chapter
Sep    4	Preliminaries
11	Equipment Familiarization	1
18	RC Circuits & Filters	2
25	Diodes & Rectification	3
Oct    2	Bipolar Transistors	4
9	Field-Effect Transistors	5
16	Differential Amplifiers	6
23	Operational Amplifiers	7,8
30	Comparators & Oscillators   Midterm Exam	9  1-6
Nov    6	Combinational Logic	10
13	Flip-Flops	11
20	Multivibrators, Counters Thanksgiving Holiday	12
27	Multiplexers, RAM Project Day	12
Dec    4	Digital-Analog Conversion	13
11	Midterm Exam	1-13