This Is What My College Engineering Lab Reports Looked Like

Lab reports are a huge part of the engineering curriculum (as well as many science majors that have labs). You will likely do a lot of them throughout your college career and in this video I outline some things you can expect.

Lab reports will differ for everyone but in general you can expect many similarities such as making plots and tables, or explaining the purpose of the lab and including equipment that you used.

You may not enjoy doing lab reports in college, but they are important because many engineers have to write technical documents in their career in a very similar way to a lab report. In the video I outline some of things I had to do in my first job as an engineer in terms of technical documents and why I had to write them.

►Example Lab Reports

*Note that the digital signal processing report is very long, but that's because we had to include all of the code that we wrote which took up a lot of room. These were also all labs from my 3rd and 4th year.

[sidneyboakye]

Pro Tip: WORK PROGRESSIVELY TOWARDS LABS Reports; it's more painful to start and finish a Post-Lab Report on the last day than when you have worked towards it during the week.

[kingsfordakomaning]

Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to lay down the blueprint on how lab reports work. Much appreciate

[darrylkid]

Thank you, I'll take chemistry lab reports in high school more seriously now.

[ThapeloMKT]

☹️ when the values for a stress and strain experiment give you a youngs modulus 10 times less than what it's supposed to be

[andrapopovici]

It is quite impressive that at college you've done so many lab reports so each time you can learn more and more and be better at doing this, also making it a habit. At my university in England they just expect us to do 1 lab report per year and get it marked (we have also other projects, like essays, media projects but they follow the same rule of doing them once). It sounds theoretically great, not too much to do and you expect it's so great to work only once for a project, but how can you expect that you can do a great work only once in a year, without constant feedback each week? It's like trying to learn everything for a great lab report and do it just once, and based on the rubric they expect you to do a great job at the first time. And might be the criteria lower for the first year than for the second year, let's say, but having a similar project to do only in the next year is such a big gap without feedback and repetitions.

[alecadanglao]

Good video man 👍👍👍 just the thing i need

[spencerallbritton]

Wow great video man, really appreciate it, very informative!

[paulramasco]

This was awesome, Thank you for putting this out, very well done. I've been doing labs but like you said, there's no real in depth teaching of how to actually do it. Just an example and hopefully you figure out the format.

[VLS-Why]

This was super helpful, was wondering why we had to do so many lab reports

[raquelflorence]

We have to only write one conclusion per group lab report but grades differ per group member because we get to give each other marks out 6

[apocalypticbean]

Thank you for sharing, Seggs Starr ♥️♥️🥰

[TheExaltedHerobrine]

Would you rather write a 20 page ENG 3000 paper or a 5 page Mechanical Engineering lab report?

[davidkippy]

I always thought labs were much more complex in college, but it seems to be very similar to what I do in high school.

[wolfy]

Sounds like you have never used LaTeX, great for all the technical/scientific documents. Amazing video though! I remember doing labs in my high school science class. Always loved doing the experiments though I always hated writing out a report afterwards.

[bkshouharda]

By the way except the project were you supposed to type lab reports or write them in hand. We have to do them on pen and paper in IIT Kharagpur.

[srpenguinbr]

Here we need to use NBR rules... It often takes longer to organize all references then writing the texts!

[sifeldinragheb]

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[Quintessenza]

Hey Major Prep! Any progress or luck on finding sources for making a video about Engineering Physics?

[zik]

What did you use to write the lab report? Ms Word? Google Docs?

[Jousef]

Bro i did like 50 lab reports this semester only