Week 3
In our third week we studied Electrical Engineering, as well as biomedical engineering. Our task this week was to build a circuit that would test the user for coronavirus and give a green light if there are no symptoms, a yellow light if there was 1, a red light if there was 2, and an alarm as well as a call to emergency services.
What is Electrical Engineering?
Electrical engineering is the engineering field focused on the creation of hardware and software that will interact with electricity. This includes everything from binary, computer logic, and circuits, to telephones, telegraphs and power plants!
What is Biomedical Engineering
Bio-engineering, or biomedical engineering is the engineering field focused on the creation of medicine and technology to assist in the human biology. This includes bionics (artificial limbs), bio sensors (like our coronavirus detection unit) as well as monitoring, maintaining, and upgrading current medical equipment
Describe the plan your group used to build the project.
Describe the process your group used to accomplish the task.
Describe how the principles you used to build the project and apply to the engineering fields you studied
Each member’s role in the project.
Describe the successes and the obstacles your team encountered and how your team overcame the obstacles.
What would your next steps be to improve your project?
Describe the lessons that you learned and how you will apply these lessons to future projects.
Knowing what you know now, how would you start your project differently?
Design Process
Main Design
Spencer was able to build a solid design pretty quick so he shared the design on zoom and we watched his screen giving input on different alterations of the design. Through this we tried to debug our circuit by using the DC solver and time graph.
Issues
A huge issue we had is that our voltage and amperage would not show as expected. We weren't sure if this was because of the software bugging or a problem in our circuit. This could be remedied by having a physical and seeing what lights light up
Research Paper
The Design Process of Commercial Circuit Design
We each delegated different sections of the paper to different people for example this is what the original roles were.
Abstract - Rufus
Introduction - Rufus
Components - Brice
Digitally Designing the Circuit - Harrison
Manufacturing Circuits - Spencer
Conclusion - Tony