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bioinst_lab_report01_last_firstname.docLab Report I
Lab Report #I
Modern Biomedical Electronics and Instrumentation
Student Name: Last XXX, First XXX
(Partner Name: Last YYY, First YYY)
Date of Completion: Month, Day, Year
Due Date of the Report:
On-Time submissions mean that both electronic version and paper version are submitted before the end of the respective lecture classes of the due dates instead of the lab classes. Please see the grading criteria below for details.
1. Notes (please notice that there were students who have violated these requirements in the past and, as a result, their scores were 0 and thus they got F grade for this course)
· Important Requirements (gets a total grade of 0 and F for the course if any of the requirements below is not met):
a. N1. Finish the report independently. Although the labs are completed with group efforts, each report should be completed independently by each student. You and your partner(s) should independently decide what results to include and in what format to present the results in the respective reports. The report provides a training for students on scientific documentation, analyses, and writing, and is an important part of your learning experience. If this requirement is not met, all students involved will get 0 and F for this course.
b. N2. Plagiarize from reports of others. Copying any parts of written reports from others or from each other is a plagiarism and is not allowed. The students involved, including those who allow their reports to be plagiarized or do not properly guard their reports, will get 0 point and F for this course, and are subject to the academic misconduct proceedings of the University of Toledo. Therefore, please do not show your complete or incomplete report to anyone else including your partner!
c. N3. Plagiarize from other sources. Copying contents (figures, tables, equations, or texts, etc) from other sources (including the web and the classnotes of the course instructor) without quotations and proper citations immediately following each copied content is also a plagiarism. Please use your own words and avoid simply copying from the classnotes of the course instructor.
· Grading Criteria of the Report:
The total score of this report is 100, consisting of six parts. A student will get a score of 0 for all parts of the report and get F grade for this course if you are judged offending Notes N1, N2, or N3 above or submit a blank report. In the case of plagiarism, the student will also be subject to the academic misconduct proceedings of the University of Toledo.
Wherever applicable, the score of each part is determined by factors including but not limited to the following:
(i) Follow Instructions Closely: The instructions at the beginning of each part and in the labeled items, such as D1.001, D1.002, and D1.003, etc, in both this report template and the classnotes should be followed closely and questions in the items are answered correctly;
(ii) Do Intelligent Analyses: Perform intelligent analyses on experiment results and phenomena observed;
(iii) Have In-Depth understanding: Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of class-related materials; and
(iv) Correct Spelling and Grammar: Texts flow smoothly with correct spelling and grammar.
a. Part 1: On-Time Submissions: The score of this part accounts for 10% and is determined by whether a student has submitted the report on time. (You are on time if you submit both the paper and electronic (Microsoft) versions of your report on or before the end of the scheduled lecture class time on the due dates indicated at the beginning of this report template. The electronic version of the report must be submitted to the instructor via the email address, (this email address avoids many problems of my email address such as 10MB maximum email size limit and the “Winmail.dat” problem of Microsoft OutLook email client, in addition to the “utemail_digest” problem that could lead to missing emails) and the total size of the attached files should not exceed 25 MB to avoid your email being rejected by the email server. Methods of reducing the size of images are given in Item (A2) below. Please follow the instructions in A2 carefully. Smaller file sizes also will avoid overloading the computer system of the instructor and are easier to handle.)
(i) Paper version: (a) late: deduct 5 points; (b) no submission within one week after the due dates indicated at the beginning of this report template: deduct 100 points and your report will not be graded.
(ii) Electronic version in MS Word format: (a) late: deduct 2.5 points; (b) no submission: deduct 5 points.
b. Part 2: Results and Analyses According to Lab Procedures in Classnotes: The score of this part accounts for 50% and is determined by an accumulation of the quality points of each labeled item in the Classnotes, such as, D1.001, D1.002, and D1.003, etc. To get a full score of this part, you need to do experiments, get correct results, do correct analyses, and answer all questions in the items correctly. For Report #1, for example, if the accumulation of your quality points is 180, the deduction of you score will be 180/2=90 or 50, whichever is smaller (your score will be 50-50=0 for this part). If the accumulation of your quality points is 30, the deduction of you score will be 30/2=15 (your score will be 50-15=35 for this part). Notice in this part that the weight “2” in denominator for Report #1 may or may not be different from that of Report #2.
c. Part 3: Abstract: The score of this part accounts for 10%. Please follow instructions at the beginning of the section.
d. Part 4: Introduction (Technical Background, Significance, and Experimental Methods): The score of this part accounts for 15%. Please follow instructions at the beginning of the section.
e. Part 5: Discussion: The score of this part accounts for 10%. Please follow instructions at the beginning of the section.
f. Part 6: Conclusion: The score of this part accounts for 5%. Please follow instructions at the beginning of the section.
g. Deductions from the Total Score Above: Assuming you get a total of x% according to the criteria above, the final score of this report is calculated by subtracting from the total score according to the following 16 items: (i) A1 to A8; (ii) B1 and B2; (iii) C1; (iv) E1; (v) F1; and (vi) G1 to G3. I.e., your final score is x%-y% where y% is the deduction. The number of point(s) deducted is given in the corresponding item below. Please follow all instructions in these items exactly. Up to 25 points could be deducted.
2. Required Styles of the Report
The items below should all be followed carefully:
A1. Figure and Table Legends: (i) Figures and Tables in your report should have legends such as “Fig. D3.004a. The Biomedical Instrumentation Lab” for figures and “Table D1.013a. Resistor Color Codes” for tables, where “D1.013“ and “D3.004” are the item # and must be added to the figure/table legends for the corresponding items. (ii) Figure legends should be placed on the bottom of figures but table legends should be on the top of tables. The legends should be intelligent enough so that people can understand your figures and tables by just looking at the legends themselves. (iii) The legends should have different font and size (see figures below) than the main text of the report so that they can be easily distinguished. 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
Fig. D3.004a. Biomedical Instrumentation Lab (font size 10, Arial)
Table D1.013a. Resistor Color Codes (font size 10, Arial)
A2. File Format and Figure Sizes: (i) This lab report must be prepared with and also submitted as a Microsoft Word file. (ii) As a good practice, please use the .jpg format for images and compress each of your images with about 70% compression rate and then inserting it into the Microsoft Word file (please do not use COPY/PASTE, instead, use INSERT to maintain the 70% compression). If you use the Microsoft Photo Editor, you could do the following: File -> Save As -> Save As *.jpg -> More -> JPEG quality factor = 31. Neither the image width nor the image height should be larger than 1024 pixels (you should resize the images properly with an image manipulation software if the original dimension of the image is larger than 1024 pixels). If you use the Microsoft Photo Editor, you could do the following to resize the images: Image -> Resize -> Units = Pixel -> Enter width or height that is less than 1024 pixels. I have used these methods to produce the classnotes that contain hundreds of images but with only a few megabytes. 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
A3. Have a Correct Text Heading Structure: (i) This report template should be used directly to write your report. (ii) The heading structure of this report template should be maintained for your report. Please see the “Heading Structure of Report (First-Level Section Headings)” below. 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
A4. Remove Illustration Texts: Please remove the illustration texts, i.e., all of the texts highlighted in yellow and placed before the Table of Contents and the instruction texts at the beginning of each section in square brackets “[…]”. Resolve formatting problems of the report after your report is final. You may greatly reduce the chance of getting formatting errors by showing the formatting symbols in Microsoft Word (you could search Google to find out how to do it for your version of the Microsoft Word). 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
A5. Filename of Submitted Report (MS Word File): For proper sorting and finding your report in a computer, you must use the filename naming format as follows. For example, assuming the filename of this report template is “bioinst_lab_report01_last_firstname.doc” and your name is Jim (first name) Miller (last name), your report should have the filename “bioinst_lab_report01_miller_jim.doc” so that the reports from the entire class can be sorted according to the last names. 1 point will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
A6. Names and Date: Enter your name, your partner’s name(s), and the date of completion of the report below the title at the beginning of this report. Please simply replace the red XXX , YYY , Month, Day, and Year with proper contents. 1 point will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
A7. Table of Contents: Please update your Table of Contents after you have completed your report by right clicking on the Table of Contents (grey area) and then select “Update Field” -> “Update entire table”. Otherwise, your Table of Contents and page numbers will be incorrect. (You could search Google to find out how to do it for your version of the Microsoft Word.) 1 point will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
A8. Should Not Include an Appendix: Appendix is not allowed in this report. 1 point will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
3. Heading Structure of the Report (First-Level Section Headings)
3.1. Heading Structure (Second-Level Section Headings)
3.1.1. Heading Structure (Third-Level Section Headings)
3.1.1.1. Heading Structure (Fourth-Level Section Headings)
[The four levels of section headings above will be automatically numbered according to the section they are in. Please copy the entire line of the headings (including the formatting symbols shown at the beginning and the end of the headings) and then paste it to where you need. To show the formatting in the texts, you need to enable the formatting toolbar if it is not already shown on top of your Microsoft Word program through the dropdown menu View -> Toolbars -> select “Formatting”. You could also use Google to search for the method to enable the formatting for your version of Microsoft Word. You should try this once so that you are familiar with the behavior of the copy/paste process before you start writing). An example is shown in the figures below.]
[Copy by highlighting the entire row of heading “1.1. Second-Level Section Headings” that includes the formatting you would like to copy as shown in Fig. 1 below:]
Fig. 1. Copy action of a heading “1.1. Second-Level Section Headings”
[Paste by placing the mouse at the beginning of the text at which you would like to have the heading. This results in a new heading “2.1. Second-Level Section Headings” automatically as shown in Fig. 2 below with correct heading number “2.1.”:]
Fig. 2. Result of pasting of the heading “2.1. Second-Level Section Headings”
Table of Contents
3 2. Required Styles of the Report
6 3. Heading Structure of the Report (First-Level Section Headings)
6 3.1. Heading Structure (Second-Level Section Headings)
6 3.1.1. Heading Structure (Third-Level Section Headings)
6 3.1.1.1. Heading Structure (Fourth-Level Section Headings)
10 2. Introduction (Technical Background, Significance, and Experimental Methods)
11 3.1. Results and Analyses of Lab #1 “Use of Instruments”
11 3.2. Results and Analyses of Lab #2 “Basic Circuits Development”
11 3.3. Results and Analyses of Lab #3 “LabView Programming”
11 3.4. Results and Analyses of Lab #4 “ECG Amplifier – Part I”
11 3.5. Results and Analyses of Lab #5 “ECG Amplifier – Part II”
4. Abstract
[(10%) A good abstract should be as follows:
(i) It is written concisely but is intelligent enough and complete by itself to reflect the entire report.
(ii) After reading the abstract, one should get an overall picture of the entire report and get all of the highlights of the report.
(iii) The abstract should be written the last.
B1. Reference should not be included in the abstract. 1 point will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
B2. This section should not exceed 250 words (the “Word Count …” in MS Word can be used to check). 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.]
5. Introduction (Technical Background, Significance, and Experimental Methods)
[(15%) This section should include the following:
(i) (6%) Technical Background: Give broad background information on biomedical electronics related to the labs. - A lot of information can be obtained from websites, scientific journal papers/magazines/periodicals, or books. As mentioned before, copied materials must be properly referenced in the format as required in the “Notes” near the beginning of this report template to avoid plagiarism and getting 0 point for this report.
(ii) (4%) Significance: State the significance of each of the labs.
(iii) (5%) Experimental Methods: Describe the experimental methods for each of the labs.
C1. This section should not exceed 3 full single-spaced pages using the 12-point font of this template. 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.]
5.1. Background
5.2. Significance
5.3. Experiment Methods
6. Results and Analyses
[(50%) You should place in this section all of the results that you have obtained by following the lab procedures of the classnotes and do analyses using the heading structures below, as required in various items. No appendix is allowed. Additional analyses for the items, if there are any, should also be in this section and be placed in the corresponding items. It would be of help when relevant figures are placed side-by-side for comparisons to illustrate your point. Scores in this section may be deducted if you have any violation of these rules.
The results and analyses from each labeled item of the classnotes should have corresponding labels so that they will not be overlooked during scoring. If there is more than one table for an item, say, D1.013, they should be labeled as Table D1.013a, Table D1.013b, and so on. Figures corresponding to an item should also be labeled with item number, such as Fig. D3.004a and Fig. D3.004b, etc. The labels should be used for analyses too.]
6.1. Results and Analyses of Lab #1 “Use of Instruments”
D1.001
D1.002
D1.003
D1.004
D1.005
D1.006
D1.007
D1.008
D1.009
D1.010
D1.011
D1.012
D1.013
6.2. Results and Analyses of Lab #2 “Basic Circuits Development”
6.3. Results and Analyses of Lab #3 “LabView Programming”
6.4. Results and Analyses of Lab #4 “ECG Amplifier – Part I”
6.5. Results and Analyses of Lab #5 “ECG Amplifier – Part II”
7. Discussion
[(10%) Discuss each of the labs on:
(i) What you have learnt;
(ii) Your experiences with the labs; and
(iii) Anything that you feel important;
E1. This section should not exceed 1 full single-spaced page using the 12-point font of this template. 1 point will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.]
8. Conclusion
[(5%) Make a conclusion over the entire report.
F1. This section should not exceed 500 words (the “Word Count …” in MS Word can be used to check). 1 point will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.]
9. References
[For this report, you should do the following:
G1. References Should Include All of These: (i) Classnotes of the instructor; (ii) at least one relevant book that you have read; (iii) at least one relevant scientific journal paper that you have read; and (iv) at least one relevant website URL. 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.]
G2. Citation Method of References: The citations in the report should be indicated by the citation number, [1], [2], and [3], etc, immediately following the figures, tables, equations, or texts, etc, that they are referred to. The citation number, [1], [2], and [3], etc, should correspond to the full citations in this section. An example for citations is given in the scientific journal paper below, which can be accessed via the following 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
G3. Reference Formats: All of the references in this section should have correct formats (for example, for a scientific journal, it should include authors’ names, title, journal name, volume, number, pages, month, and year) as given in the examples below. For books and scientific journal papers, all authors should be listed. For websites, the URLs should refer to the individual items referred to. 2 points will be deducted from the total score defined in the grading criteria above if this item is not followed exactly.
[1] Classnotes:, Class Notes for Instruction. Course #
[2] Book: R. Bracewell, The Fourier Transform and its Applications. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
[3] Website: Resistor Color Codes: http://www.elexp.com/t_resist.htm ]
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