Guidelines

EE-118/218 Digital Design
Course Guidelines

This course is a junior/senior/masters level course and you will be expected to work independently and with teammates on homework, labs and projects. The idea is to prepare you for a career where you will have to solve problems on your own and contribute effectively to team assignments. Also note that this is a WAC course. There will be an emphasis on good technical writing in the lab and project reports.

Course Web Page

The Blackboard web site is at http://online.union.edu. Your username is the first 7 letters of your last name followed by the first initial, followed by the last three digits of your student ID number. The password is initially your student ID number. You should change it promptly after logging in the first time. On your Blackboard account you will find links to the EE-118 course as well as any other courses that you are taking that use Blackboard. On-line grades and surveys will be available on Blackboard as well as a link to the main course page, http://doc.union.edu/118.

Homework

Exercises will be assigned weekly, collected on Wednesdays at class time, and graded. Late homework will not be accepted. You may work together on assignments, but the work you submit must be your own. Assignments that appear to be copied will receive a severely reduced grade.

Laboratories

There will be five laboratory assignments and projects. Most labs will be team efforts. Teams will be assigned for some laboratories. Each lab will require:

Prelab - assignment due at the beginning of the lab session. Completion of prelabs will be strictly enforced and the lack of a completed prelab will result in a 10% penalty in the lab report grade.
Lab report - due dates will be posted on the lab web page. Grade is based on both technical content and writing. Team reports will have both individual and team grades.

The final laboratory will require an oral presentation of the results. A lab notebook to keep notes on instructions and commands learned in each week's lab is highly recommended.

Information for Graduate Students taking course as EE/CS 218

For students taking this course to fulfill a Master's degree, an advanced project will be assigned. This project will be factored into the Labs grade.

Grading