EET 365

EET 365W
Electrical Power and Machinery Laboratory
Navy College

Additional Course Information

Note: All EET365 students in this lab are required to have an ODU-assigned email account. The account is free and, if you wish, it can be automatically forwarded to your personal home email account. Click here for info on applying for a student email account.

Instructor:

J. R. Hackworth KH-211D Voice Phone (757) 683-4421 (voice mail available), FAX (757) 683-5655,
email: jhackwor@odu.edu

Texts:

The text used in EET-360
The EET 365 Power and Machinery Laboratory Manual provided with the coursepak. If you do not have the Acrobat Reader, you can download it from the Adobe web site by clicking on the appropriate link below:

Course Objectives:

Learn how to use the power measurement equipment and instrumentation, and measure the static resistance of a DC machine.
Plot and understand a DC machine saturation curve and learn how to reverse the polarity of a DC generator.
Measure and understand various properties and losses in transformers.
Measure and understand various properties and losses in autotransformers.
Investigate the method used to put an alternator on a live power line.
Measure and analyze the performance of a 3-phase induction motor.
Investigate the characteristics of a single-phase capacitor start motor.
Measure the load characteristics of a DC shunt generator.
Program and apply a programmable logic controller.
Measure the load characteristics of a DC compound generator.
Learn how to control the speed of a DC shunt motor.
Understand the characteristics of shunt, compound, and series DC motors.

Office Hours:

Prof. Hackworth's schedule is on his home page. If you wish to call by phone, these will be the best days and times.

Grading:

40% Informal Laboratory Reports (9 each)
40% Formal Laboratory Reports (4 each)
10% Overall Performance (see below)
10% Final comprehensive test
Grading scale: The standard 10 point grading scale will be applied. Plus and minus graduations will be applied when appropriate.
Since this is a writing intensive course (indicated by the "W" on the course number), a majority of your semester grade is derived from writing asignments. This includes style, comprehensiveness and writing mechanics (spelling, punctuation, etc.).

Overall Performance:

The instructor will carefully monitor laboratory performance and use it as a basis for grading. This does not mean that you are expected to be a "superstar" in understanding the experiments, nor does it mean that you can't ask the instructor appropriate questions when you've reached a "dead-end". However, engineering technology students are expected to develop a reasonable affinity toward a hands-on problem solving approach, and a portion of your ultimate value to industry could depend on the work habits you develop in this and other EET laboratory courses. This includes tackling a technical assignment with enthusiasm and interest, being a "self-starter" (i.e., usually not needing someone to continuously supervise your work and tell you what to do next), completing assignments on-time, and presenting the results in a neat, well organized, and easy-to-understand format. This also means that when you encounter a problem, you should spend some time researching a solution before asking for help.

This in no way means that the instructor will automatically deduct points each time you ask for help. In a few sentences of conversation or email, it is easy to tell if a student has either made an effort to solve a problem before calling, or has simply decided to take the "short cut" and ask the instructor first.

ODU Honor Code

Students are expected to read and understand the ODU honor code. Although you may freely discuss the laboratory experiments and concepts, you are to work alone in taking laboratory data and writing the laboratory reports. Violations will result in at least a zero grade on the paper with possible additional punishment by the ODU Honor Council. Submitted papers will be screened for cheating.