ECE 473: Electric Machinery

The typical student will spend approximately two hours preparing for each class session. This includes reading the course notes, watching videos, and completing exercises not finished in class. These six hours a week of preparation outside of class will be in addition to the three hours a week students are attending class sessions.

Fitzgerald and Kingsley’s Electric Machinery 7th Edition, Stephen Umans. ISBN: 978-0073380469 / 0073380466. McGraw-Hill Education 2013.

Electric Machinery Fundamentals 5th Edition, Stephen J. Chapman. ISBN: 978-0073529547 / 0073529540. McGraw-Hill Education 2011.

Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications 5th Edition, Austin Hughes and Bill Drury. ISBN: 978-0081026151 / 0081026153. Newnes 2019.

Canvas will be the authoritative, official, and potentially only, source of the following information:

Join Google Space: EMachines

There are four types of assessments for this course, each major topic will have several items spread across these types of activities:

Items are marked on a scale of E, M, R, or N. See Figure 1, “The EMRN Rubric” for the general definitions of these levels. Evaluations of R or N may be re-attempted without penalty.

To earn a given base letter, all items must be checked for that row and for all rows below in Table 1, “Letter grading scheme”. A grade of F is assigned if the D row item is missing checked items.

Plus / minus modifiers are assigned on various factors at the instructor’s discretion. For example, receiving several E's would justify an increase.

Every student starts the semester with 2 tokens.

This statement is written on all homework, quizzes and exams at Valparaiso University. Every student must write it out the Honor Code in full and sign it for all work submitted for academic credit. It expresses the promise of the student not to cheat through action or inaction. This allows unproctored examinations and expresses the faith of the faculty in the student body.

The student initiated Honor System, administered by the Honor Council and its constituent bodies, is recognized and approved by Valparaiso University as an integral part of the regulations under which students in the undergraduate colleges become members of the university community. Therefore, it is impossible for anyone to become a member of the university without both explicit and implicit adherence to the Honor System.

Every student has the responsibility to keep academics free of dishonesty, that is, to neither give or receive unauthorized aid. Non-toleration of the use of unauthorized aid is a further responsibility that is inherent in the Honor System. Each student must report to the Honor Council any violation of the System of which the student becomes aware, free from the pressure of ensuing penalty.

Remember, it shall be the responsibility of the student, when in doubt, to ask the instructor what is or is not authorized aid.

For more information: http://www.valpo.edu/student/honorcouncil

The Access & Accommodations Resource Center (AARC) is the campus office that works with students to provide access and accommodations in cases of diagnosed mental or emotional health issues, attentional or learning disabilities, vision or hearing limitations, chronic diseases, or allergies. You can contact the office at aarc@valpo.edu or 219.464.5206. Students who need, or think they may need, accommodations due to a diagnosis, or who think they have a diagnosis, are invited to contact AARC to arrange a confidential discussion with the AARC office. Further, students who are registered with AARC are required to contact their professor(s) if they wish to exercise the accommodations outlined in their letter from the AARC.

To get help in this course, the best place to start is to work with your instructor during office hours and ask your professor if there are any Help Sessions or department-level tutoring offered for this course. The next step is to use the Academic Success Center (ASC) online directory (https://valpo.edu/academicsuccess) or contact the ASC (academic.success@valpo.edu) to help point you in the right direction for academic support resources for this course. Valpo’s learning centers (Writing Center, Language Resource Center, Hesse Learning Resource & Assessment Center, and Academic Success Center) offer a variety of programs and services that provide group and individual learning assistance for many subject areas.

Notifications of class cancellations will be made through Blackboard with as much advance notice as possible. It will be both posted on Blackboard and sent to your Valpo e-mail address. If you don’t check your Valpo e-mail account regularly or have it set-up to be forwarded to your preferred e-mail account, you may not get the message. Please check Blackboard and your Valpo e-mail (or the e-mail address it forwards to) before coming to class.

VU’s Emergency Notification System (ENS) uses multiple forms of communication, including e-mail, building alarms, outdoor sirens, message boards, computer alerts, Twitter, and public address messaging. Please review the specific procedures for this class found in Blackboard. Remember: “Siren inside, GO outside; Siren outside, GO inside.” To evacuate, gather your personal belonging quickly and proceed to the nearest exit. Do not use the elevator. To shelter in place, move away from the windows and stay low to the ground; lock or barricade the door if there is a threat of violence.

Following University policy, all students, faculty, and staff attending an on-campus class or event must be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, except for those who receive official University exemptions. When necessary for the safety of all, the University may require all faculty, students, and staff to wear a mask indoors for discrete periods of time. Any such decision will be made in consultation with the county and state health departments, the local conditions, and the advice of the CDC. At all times, individuals who are not vaccinated will be required to wear a mask indoors. All University policies will be updated regularly at https://valpo.edu/covid-info

Consistent with general faculty oversight of classroom conduct, students are required to follow the university guidelines for safety in the classrooms, labs, and other learning spaces.