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- There should be a regularly scheduled lab time with supervised activities; time spent in the lab should total 3 hours per week throughout the semester.
- The department should make it a priority to assign assigns TAs to lab courses (comment: the department typically assigns TAs to non-lab courses with 25+ students, but lab courses can have smaller numbers, depending on availability of resources). It is up to the instructor to ask the department for a TA – CC is in charge of telling instructors that they have the right to do this.
- It depends largely on what is the desired outcome of the lab...i.e. teach concepts, observe something talked about in class, characterization, design a widget, learn how to use an instrument, and so on.
there should be test and measurement equipmentif the class involves design, there must be some evaluation of how well the student design works
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