Principles of Electrical Engineering

Course Number: 922 Meeting Times: 4 days/week, 1 semester/half year

Credits: 1/2 Grades: 10-12 Prerequisite: Intro to Engineering OR Human Centered Design

This course is designed to introduce students to basic principles in electronics and electrical engineering, and lay a foundation for subsequent study in engineering, applied physics and design. The main objective of the course is to introduce students to programming with a specific emphasis on using coding to interface/interact with physical devices, sensors and hardware. Students will be introduced to the basic theory of electricity and circuits and apply this knowledge in the form of hands-on projects through the use of the Arduino platform.

Basic Circuit Theory

• • Forces and Coulomb's Law,

  • Current, Voltage, Resistance, Ohm's Law

  • Kirchoff's Laws, Series and Parallel Circuits, Voltage Dividers

  • Solving Circuits

Programming

• The Arduino Microcontroller

• Binary Numbers, Compilers, Displaying Data

• Variables, Data types, Control Flow

• Functions and Arrays

Sensors

• LEDs and their applications

• Temperature Sensors

• Buzzers, Servo Motors

• Shift Registers, Seven-Segment Displays, LCD Monitors

Final Project

Students build circuits on breadboards and learn to code those projects, which increase in complexity as the semester progresses. The semester ends with a hands on project, which comes from the community, such as coding a puzzle to speak when the correct puzzle piece is inserted. (see below)

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