Electrical Engineering

Overview

Electrical Engineering is a branch of engineering that exploits properties of electricity, magnetism, and electromagnetism to create useful products. It is a broad field that touches on power distribution, electronics, telecommunications, automatic control, and other areas. In this class we learn about a few of these areas to give students an idea of what electrical engineering is all about.

This year we will cover electronics, magnetism, and computer control.

Lessons

Date	Lesson	Lab
9/18/10	Fundamental Electrical Concepts	Automatic Night Light Project
9/25/10	Circuit Concepts	Automatic Night Light (cont.)
10/2/10	Circuit Components	Automatic Night Light (cont.)

Assignments

Due 9/25/10: Read Circuit Concepts.
Due 10/2/10: Read Circuit Components
Due 10/9/10: Lab Report for Automatic Night Light Project

Lab Reports

You should keep notes on the labs that you do and hand in a lab report after you’ve completed the lab. Below is a lab report template and a sample report.

Lab Report Template
Sample Lab Report

Handouts

The following presentations augment the materials given out in class:

SI Units and Prefixes (Presentation)
Scientific Notation (Presentation)

See the Resources page for additional handouts.