4L02 Report Writing

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4L02 Report Writing

• Yudi Samyudia
• Fall 2003

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General Requirements

• Report Length MAX 15 pages not including
  Tables, Figures, Appendixes
• Binding Accepted (Binder, Spiral or Cerloc) Not
  accepted (Stapled only)
• Title page Experiment Name Your name/ID and
  group members names, Date (submitted), Course
  name and Instructor/TA
• Equations, Tables, and Figures
• Numbered consecutively
• Descriptive caption below figures (above tables)
• Provide units for clear interpretation
• Lines/data clearly identified when printed in b/w
• References and Appendix
• Standard Citations given in the report body
• Meaningful titles for appendix
• Legible handwritten calculations are OK
• No excessive listings, plots, etc.

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Report Structure and Content

• Summary/Abstract
• No more one page Key goal of lab Essential
  empirical/calculation methods Summarize results
  quantitatively Precise conclusions about results
• Introduction
• Clear and concise statement of the lab objective
  What are the key ideas, conclusions that the
  reader should concentrate on?
• Experimental Design
• Goals, theory, equipment, data, and calculations,
  conclusions
• Important questions what is important theory?
  Why will this equipment and set of experiments
  provide needed data? What specific calculations
  are required? Accuracy and safety issues of
  experiments
• Results and Discussion
• Data presentation and (calculation) results
  Statistics
• What can you determine and with what accuracy?
  Any surprise results?
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Briefly repeat the goals
• Compare the results with the goals, and state
  your conclusions concisely

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Example Control Labs

• Introduction
• Theory pH, pressure and flow dynamics modeling
  based on reaction curve feedback tuning rule
  from reaction curve models cascade control
• Experiment design
• Calibration of measurements (e.g. flow, pH)
• Modeling Step test (e.g. where? and how (size
  and direction)?)
• Controller tuning (e.g. which loop do we start?)
• Results and Discussions
• Modeling
• Data analysis (statistics) Dealing with noise
• Determination of model parameters
• Discussions on the results
• Controller tuning and strategy
• Determination of controller parameters
• Controller performance (e.g. settling time
  overshoot, etc)
• Discussion on the results
• SDL project
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• Are the experiments consistent with the goals (or
  objective)
• Are the results consistent with theory? If not,
  why and suggestion for improvement?