Lab
reports must be typed. Type your name, student ID, course and section number in
the upper right corner of the first page.
Number all pages consecutively. Graphs should be labeled. The title of a
graph should be complete and concise, allowing a reader to understand what the
graph depicts without reading the rest of the write-up.
Lab
reports MUST be done individually. It is an honor code violation to submit
another’s work as your own OR to allow your work to be submitted as
another’s work.
The
report is always due at the beginning of the next lab section meeting after the
lab experiment is performed. (If a particular lab experiment is scheduled to
take more than 1 week, the lab report is due one week after the last lab meeting
scheduled for that experiment.) If you miss the lab meeting when the lab report
is due, you may turn in the report during the GTA's other lab sections or during
his office hours, but the grade will be automatically lowered. Lab reports will NOT be
accepted more than 1 week after their due date.
The standard lab report consists of the following sections. Note
also that certain requirements may change from time to time, and specific
requirements may be given for some labs.
- Title of Lab: The title should contain the name of the experiment performed and the date the experiment was performed.
- Purpose: The purpose is a short one or two sentence statement indicating why you are in the lab. State your goal in performing the lab and what you expect to learn from the lab.
- Matlab code: This part should contain a print-out of your matlab code (.m file) or commands to perform the experiment. Indicate clearly which part of the experiment the code belongs to.
- Results: The results section is to record your observations. It may include code execution results, descriptions, tables, graphs or figures.
- Discussion and conclusions: The conclusions are perhaps the most important part of the write-up, and the amount of effort you put into it should reflect this. The conclusions will include your interpretation of the results and any relationships (or equations) that you have discovered. Indicate how accurate your results are and explain any discrepancies. Make the lab instructor believe that you understand what you have done and the results that you have obtained.
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