Bioe 1010 and 1310 - Bio-Instrumentation, Spring 2006

“To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk,” Thomas Edison

Bioe 1010 and Bioe 1310 (together)

Lecture Wed 1:00-2:50 PM Room 525 Benedum
Instructor: George Stetten (email AT stetten.com)
Required Text: Forest Mims, Getting Started in Electronics
Grading Policy:

Projects (total 25%)
10% Project Report - Complete as described on project webpage: schematic, photo, etc.
5% Project is Appropriate - Applies to principles used in lab, learned in class
5% Project is Complete - Built on breadboard or otherwise, organized well
5% Project Works - Within reason and considering original challenge

Homework 15%
Labs 60%

Labs - All in B69 Benedum

Mo 6:30-9:00 PM
Teaching Assistant	Garrett Grindle	ggg3 AT pitt.edu	office hours (B69) monday 5:30-6:30 PM
Teaching Assistant	Kathryn O'Connor	kwo2 AT pitt.edu	office hours (B69) friday 1:00-2:00 PM
Staff Instructor	Eric Reiss	eric AT engr.pitt.edu

Tu 6:30-9:00 PM
Teaching Assistant	Garrett Grindle	ggg3 AT pitt.edu	office hours (B69) monday 5:30-6:30 PM
Teaching Assistant	Kurt Beschorner	keb52 AT pitt.edu	office hours (B69) tues 5:30-6:30 PM
Staff Instructor	Eric Reiss	eric AT engr.pitt.edu

We 6:30-9:00 PM
Teaching Assistant	Stephanie Glazar	sglazar AT yahoo.com	office hours (B69) wed-thu 5:30-6:30 PM
Teaching Assistant	Kurt Beschorner	keb52 AT pitt.edu	office hours (B69) tues 5:30-6:30 PM
Staff Instructor	Tim Cooper	tcooper AT pitt.edu

Th 6:30-9:00 PM
Teaching Assistant	Stephanie Glazar	sglazar AT yahoo.com	office hours (B69) wed-thu 5:30-6:30 PM
Teaching Assistant	Kathryn O'Connor	kwo2 AT pitt.edu	office hours (B69) friday 1:00-2:00 PM
Staff Instructor	Tim Cooper	tcooper AT pitt.edu

Pitt Academic Calander

Week 1 : Jan 2-6
No Labs, since classes start Wednesday
we 1/4 Lecture 1 - Passive components, safety issues, Ohm, Kirchoff, series/parallel, power.

Week 2 : Jan 9-13
Lab 1 - Passive circuits, breadboards, soldering, meet your meter.
we 1/11 Lecture 2 - Impedance, Schematics, Diodes, Transistors, Relays; Photo of Relay

Week 3 : Jan 16-20
Lab 2 - Build your BLIP;
(Due to Martin Luther King day 1/16, monday students attend one of the other evening labs, tu-we-th).
BLIP Specification
we 1/18 Lecture 3 - Transistors Circutis, Transformers, Impedance

Week 4 : Jan 23-27
Lab 3 - Diodes and Transistors
we 1/25 Lecture 4 - Comparators, Hysteresis, Tektronix Oscilloscope Manual

Week 5 : Jan 30-Feb 3
Lab 4 - Comparators, Photoresistor, Thermoregulation, Hysteresis;
we 2/1 Lecture 5 - Guest Lecturers TBA, Kurt's Circuit Review, Eric's Rectifier Demo

Week 6 : Feb 6-10
Lab 5 - Audio systems
we 2/8 Lecture 6 - Digital Systems, Individual Projects

Week 7 : Feb 13-17
Lab 6 - Digital systems
we 2/15 Lecture 7 - Operational Amplifiers, Concept of Fourier, Individual Projects

Week 8 : Feb 20-24
Lab - Catch Up
we 2/22 Lecture 8 - Communications Systems, Individual Projects, Alvin, Egg

Week 9 Feb 27 - March 3
Lab - Catch Up and Individual Projects (Labs 1-6 due at end of your regular lab day. NO EXTENSIONS)
we 3/1 Lecture 9 - First lecture by Dr. Sun