EC ENGR 11L
Circuits Laboratory I
Description: Lecture, one hour; laboratory, one hour; outside study, one hour. Enforced corequisite: course 10. Experiments with basic circuits containing resistors, capacitors, inductors, and transformers. Ohm's law voltage and current division, Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits, superposition, transient and steady state analysis. Letter grading.
Units: 1.0
Units: 1.0
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Fall 2022 - If you liked using the AD2 from ECE 3 well you're in luck because this class uses the AD2 for the entire quarter. You learn about basic circuits (matching the pace with ECE 10/ECE 10H), from voltage dividers, up to multi-order RLC circuits. 4 labs, 4 reports (roughly 8 pages long), assigned every two weeks, with the lab specs for the entire quarter published at the start of the quarter. The labs and reports are expected to be completed by each individual. Lots of people cram doing the lab and the report 48 hours before it's due. You will likely also do that too. If you decide to do the labs early and do the report later, you'll likely have to repeat doing the lab as well. Lab sections are not mandatory, EXCEPT for the days your reports are due, as for my quarter there was a "quiz" and practical demo required for checkoffs. For the checkoffs, I partnered up with a friend, but that policy is up to your TA.
Fall 2022 - If you liked using the AD2 from ECE 3 well you're in luck because this class uses the AD2 for the entire quarter. You learn about basic circuits (matching the pace with ECE 10/ECE 10H), from voltage dividers, up to multi-order RLC circuits. 4 labs, 4 reports (roughly 8 pages long), assigned every two weeks, with the lab specs for the entire quarter published at the start of the quarter. The labs and reports are expected to be completed by each individual. Lots of people cram doing the lab and the report 48 hours before it's due. You will likely also do that too. If you decide to do the labs early and do the report later, you'll likely have to repeat doing the lab as well. Lab sections are not mandatory, EXCEPT for the days your reports are due, as for my quarter there was a "quiz" and practical demo required for checkoffs. For the checkoffs, I partnered up with a friend, but that policy is up to your TA.
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Winter 2016 - This class is a very bad joke that the EE department plays on it's students. 11L is the biggest waste of time per unit, primarily because of the pointlessly long lab reports. Mahmood is worse than a bad TA: heavy accent, unorganized "lectures" and talks at you rather than to you. His quizzes are the most poorly written things I've ever had the displeasure of taking, with typos and vague questions galore. He has the TA's be in charge of lab so I seriously wonder why this man is even getting paid by UCLA. If you do you have the misfortune to take 11L with Mahmood, when it's 4AM the day that lab is due and you're on page 30 of your lab report, just remember that at the end of the day that it's one unit so spend your time on other more important classes.
Winter 2016 - This class is a very bad joke that the EE department plays on it's students. 11L is the biggest waste of time per unit, primarily because of the pointlessly long lab reports. Mahmood is worse than a bad TA: heavy accent, unorganized "lectures" and talks at you rather than to you. His quizzes are the most poorly written things I've ever had the displeasure of taking, with typos and vague questions galore. He has the TA's be in charge of lab so I seriously wonder why this man is even getting paid by UCLA. If you do you have the misfortune to take 11L with Mahmood, when it's 4AM the day that lab is due and you're on page 30 of your lab report, just remember that at the end of the day that it's one unit so spend your time on other more important classes.
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Winter 2020 - For this class you basically need to show up every 3 weeks to perform a demo, the professor itself is not that much of help but you should be aware who's your TA, because your TA is the one that can help you with labs and reports reports, I recommend H. Hojaji. Overall it was one of the easiest lab classes I took, even easier than lower division physic or chem labs.
Winter 2020 - For this class you basically need to show up every 3 weeks to perform a demo, the professor itself is not that much of help but you should be aware who's your TA, because your TA is the one that can help you with labs and reports reports, I recommend H. Hojaji. Overall it was one of the easiest lab classes I took, even easier than lower division physic or chem labs.
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Winter 2024 - This class is primarily run by the TA, but it is organized and structured by the Professor, and the lab manuals are reasonable and can easily be completed in an hour or two. Except for the first one, which has a four-week time frame, you have two weeks. They were designed to be completed at home, but there are still lab lab sections available for additional help. It makes no difference which one you are enrolled in; you can attend any of them. The labs essentially test the concepts you learned in ECE 10, up to Second Order Differentials. All labs require the AD2, so if you loved it in ECE3, you're in for a treat!
Winter 2024 - This class is primarily run by the TA, but it is organized and structured by the Professor, and the lab manuals are reasonable and can easily be completed in an hour or two. Except for the first one, which has a four-week time frame, you have two weeks. They were designed to be completed at home, but there are still lab lab sections available for additional help. It makes no difference which one you are enrolled in; you can attend any of them. The labs essentially test the concepts you learned in ECE 10, up to Second Order Differentials. All labs require the AD2, so if you loved it in ECE3, you're in for a treat!
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