Electrical Engineering - PLTW
[Honors]
Daily Agenda
About Electrical Engineering (EE)
Electrical Engineering is a full year PLTW course that involves the study of electronic circuits that are used to process and control digital signals. Digital electronics is the foundation of all modern electronic devices such as cellular phones, arduinos, and laptop computers. The major focus of the EE course is to expose students to the process of combinational and sequential logic design, teamwork, and communication methods. Students may receive college credit and/or advanced standing for successful completion of this course and a cumulative exam.
Soldering and Circuit Design
Learning how to solder is a fundamental skill for building and understanding how electricity flows through a circuity. There are two soldering projects that teach how the components work and interact with each other and then move into designing circuits in simulation.
Breadboarding
Students will then learn how to design circuits in simulation as well as how to make them in the real world to test them. This helps the student understand how the logic gates function and how to build and read wiring diagrams.
Programable Logic Devices
Once the student understands how all of the components interact and work through breadboarding we begin to make more complex interactions. In order to bring them from simulation to the real world, the circuit is exported to programmable logic devices. These circuits then are used to interact with VEX motors and sensors in order to create closed loop systems using logic gates.
Arduinos
After the class has covered how all of the parts work together to interact with the real world, it will transition into learning how to program Arduinos. This unit will start off with the fundamentals of coding them and move into programming them for more complex tasks.
