PRRE1003 Lab B Report Template - S1 - 2023

Lab B Report Template
PRRE1003 Resources, Processes & Materials Engineering
Please use this template as a basis for writing your Lab B report. The report should cover Experiment
2 only.
Any text in blue is comments or instructions that should be removed from your final report. Text in
black should be included in your final report, with modification if needed.
General information about technical report writing was covered in Workshop 1. In particular, please
refer to the PRRE1003 Technical Report Writing Guidelines on Blackboard.
The report is limited to seven pages, not including the title page, references and Appendix.
An Abstract, Table of Contents, List of Figures and List of Tables shouldn’t be included. See the Lab B
Worksheet for a rubric that shows how the report will be marked.
TITLE PAGE
The first page of the report should be a title page that has the following information:
 The unit name: PRRE1003 Resources, Processes & Materials Engineering

 The assessment name: Lab B Report
 The semester and year
 The Group Code and Class #
 The names and student IDs of the people in your group
 The date and time of your lab session (face to face)
 The table of Peer Assessment Factors (PAFs) from the Excel sheet Peer Assessment Lab B
provided under BB/Lab Submissions/, if your group feels that all team members did not
contribute equally. If you leave this Table blank, I will assume that all members contributed
equally to the group report.
First Name Last Name Student ID Peer
Assessment
Factor (PAF)
Person 1
Person 2
Person 3
Person 4
Number of team members
Begin the rest of your report on a new page.
Please submit your report in Word or PDF format on the Blackboard submission link for Lab B.
Name your file as follows: [campus]_[group #]_Lab B report
For example, for group #7_C2 in Bentley, you would name your file as Bentley_7C2_Lab B report.
1
INTRODUCTION
Please provide an introduction, of suggested length about 0.5-1 page, which covers in your own
words the following topics:
 The significance of the lab topic, particularly the relationship between thermal, electrical and
mechanical properties for different classes of materials, such as metals and polymers.
 The aims of the lab as you see them.
 Some brief background information or theory relevant to the lab work and its aims. Give
details of the scientific principles that should be demonstrated by the work in the report, or
the hypothesis that the work attempts to prove or verify. Use headings or subsections if
needed.
You may need to do some independent reading to address the first and third points above—be sure
to reference any sources you use, including any images you incorporate into your report.
EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS, APPARATUS AND METHOD
In this section (suggested length about 0.5 pages), very briefly describe in your own words the
materials, apparatus and experimental method used in Experiment 2. Please use paragraphs unless
you are listing equipment.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This section should present the data you collected in Experiment 2, your observations about it, and
the answers to the specific questions asked in the Lab B Worksheet.
You’ll need to include the experimental data in your report; for example, by presenting your Table 5
and answers to the questions in Experiment 2. Is it important to distinguish “raw data”, like the mass
of metal, from “calculated data”, like the heat absorbed by the water? If so, then consider modifying
the Table.
You will need to show a sample calculation for Cp, and also explain how you calculated density. Can
you also include uncertainty estimates?
If you did your Lab face to face, please only use a data set from 1 person to present your results. You
may find it useful to reflect on why your results may or may not be different from those obtained for
the Lab B online videos (if a group member did the lab online).
Are there any other points that you think should be made about your investigations into the metal’s
heat capacity? Are there any relevant wider issues? Add a discussion about these matters, if needed.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Please write a short conclusion (1 or 2 paragraphs) about the experiment. Conclusions are about the
overarching technical lessons you have learnt and are related to your initial experimental goal: they
are not the same as a summary (please refer to the PRRE1003 Technical Report Writing Guidelines).
Can you make any recommendations related to the lab? This may need brainstorming.
2
REFERENCES
Did you refer to any material to help write your report, for example to understand any concepts or
provide background information? Did you include any images in your report? Have you included any
direct quotations? If so, you should include these sources in a list of references here and cite the
references in the text of your report (or in the figure or table captions). Please use the Vancouver
reference style (http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing/vancouver).
APPENDIX
This should include items that are not critical to the reader’s ability to understand your report. For
example, a sample calculations or lengthy addendums. It is an optional part of your report.
RUBRIC – PLEASE DELETE WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR REPORT

Exceeds expectations Good Meets expectations Needs improvement Does not meet
expectations
Introduction Aims, significance and Aims, significance and Aims, significance and Aims, significance and The introduction is
18% background are clear. background are clear. background are clear. background insufficiently essentially copied from
Clear evidence of Clear evidence of SOME evidence of covered OR independent the lab worksheet.
independent research independent research and independent research research is lacking.
and thinking. 0.5-1 page. thinking. A bit too and thinking. 0.5-1page.
short/long.
Methodology Clearly and concisely Clearly and concisely Information is Information is The information is
14% written in paragraphs. All written in dot points. All paraphrased from the lab paraphrased from the lab essentially copied from
important details given. important details given. worksheet. 0.5-1page. worksheet. >1page. the lab worksheet, but
Does not make irrelevant Does not make irrelevant important information is
assumptions. assumptions. missing or incorrect.
Results Sample calculation for Cp. Sample calculations for Sample calculations for Sample calculation for Cp Sample calculations
18% Density interpolated Cp. Density interpolation Cp AND density or density interpolation incorrect/absent.
shown. Uncertainties are shown. calculated, but unclear incorrect/absent.
quantified. how it was interpolated
from data.
Discussions Thorough discussion Thorough discussion Discussion linked to Discussion linked to No discussion point
18% linked to experiment goal linked to experiment goal experiment goal and experimental goal. No started.
and mentioning and mentioning mentioning uncertainties mention of uncertainties.
uncertainties. Use of uncertainties (not (not quantified).
references. quantified). Use of
references.
Conclusions Concise conclusions show Concise conclusions show Some reasonable Some reasonable Conclusions are missing
and a thorough understanding a thorough understanding conclusions are given. conclusions are given. No or are actually a
recommenda of the work. Two or more of the work. At least ONE One or two recommendations are summary.
tions relevant, valuable, and valuable and practical recommendations given given. Recommendations are
14% practical recommendation given. but they may lack missing or are unrelated
recommendations are usefulness or practicality. to the experiment.
given.
Writing The report is free from The report is free from There are a handful of There are a few spelling Spelling and grammatical
9% spelling mistakes. The spelling mistakes. The spelling and grammatical and grammatical mistakes are common.
writing is clear, concise, writing is clear, concise, mistakes. The writing is mistakes. The writing is There is poor or
and easy to read. and easy to read. mostly understandable mostly understandable, inconsistent formatting. It
Formatting is consistent Formatting is good. and brief. Formatting is but some sections are too is over the page limit.
and professional. Within Within total page limit. good. Within total page short/too long. Exceed Overall, it seems that the
total page limit. limit. page limit for report (not group is not aware of
including cover page, report writing standards
references, and appendix. or has not applied them
carefully.
References Credible references ≥4 Credible references ≥4 References <4, in Not in Vancouver format. No reference.
9% and in Vancouver format, and in Vancouver format, Vancouver format, in text
in text citation and list. list only. citation and/or list.
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PRRE1003 Resources, Processes & Materials Engineering

 The unit name: PRRE1003 Resources, Processes & Materials Engineering

Begin the rest of your report on a new page.

Name your file as follows: [campus]_[group #]_Lab B report

EXPERIMENTAL MATERIALS, APPARATUS AND METHOD

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

RUBRIC – PLEASE DELETE WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR REPORT

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