S-72.116 Signaalit ja järjestelmät (Signals and Systems)

1. The final report is a free-form report about the laboratory work and its results with some analysing.
2. The report may be made by hand or by machine. The maximum length of the report is 4 handwritten pages or 2 typewritten pages.
3. You may attach any Matlab pictures (associated with the work, of course) to the final report. These pictures must be enumerated (ie. attachment 1, attachment 2…) , and there must be references to these pictures in the text.
4. You may (read: must) make notes to the pictures attached, for example you could explain the origin of different components of a spectrum of some signal. By making notes to the pictures you don't have to explain so much in the text-part.
5. In the beginning of the report there must be the following information:

• laboratory work number
• the group's number
• names of the makers and their student numbers
• assistant's name
• the date of laboratory work and the date of returning the final report

1. References to the course material are highly desirable. Often it is enough to refer like "formula x.x.x", "in page xxx it says that…" and "…text…, p. xxx"
2. Estimate the reliability of the results, and give suggestions about how to improve it.
3. Concentrate on the essential! You do not need to tell that "we sat on our chairs, turned on the computer etc…"
4. While marking the reports, we do not pay attention to the report's appearance. The main thing is to see how much you have learned. For example, if some picture of a spectrum has no notes at all and the text shows that you have no understanding about this phenomenon, it means "merciless" lowering of points. Instead, if you have pointed the fundamental component and the harmonics of the f-domain representation, sketched the envelope of the sinc-function and there are references to rect-wave's Fourier-series in the text you may expect good results.
5. Before you compose the final report, examine the laboratory work with your partner once again. After this it is very easy to write the report.
6. The report's deadline is two weeks after you have made the actual work. However, for a specific reason it is possible to get extra time. A specific reason could be illness etc. It is recommended that you do the final report as soon as possible, because the longer you wait, the less you remember.
7. Reports are returned in the work-specified pigeon-hole (located under the course notice board). Check that the report holds together!
8. We try to grade the preliminary reports and final reports as soon as possible. The results are available immediately after grading in the course's www-site and on the notice board. Because of security issues we are not allowed to publish students' names, and so the information is published only based on student numbers. The course's assistant is responsible for grading.
9. If you have any suggestions about improving the laboratory work, feel free to write your comments to the final report. Thank you.

1. Preliminary reports 0…35 points, final report 0…65 points. The grading is the same for every work.
2. The maximum points for all 3 works is then 300. You have to get 120 (total) from the laboratory works to pass the course. If you don't have 120 points from these works, you may have to do one or more laboratory works again.
3. You also have to return the preliminary and final reports for all the works - even if you had 120 points already.
4. The grade for the laboratory works (LGR) is counted as

LGR=(P/45)-(5/3), where P is the total amount of points from the laboratory works.
 

5. The course grade (CGR) is counted as
   
   CGR=0.7*EGR+0.3*LGR, where EGR is the Exam GRade.

Seppo Saastamoinen
Researcher, course S-72.116 assistant
seppo.saastamoinen@hut.fi
0400 205 515
Room E-307