Instructor: Laura J. Bottomley, director of Women in Engineering, Engineering Education, and the Engineering Place at NC State University. Course no. 10180. Contains 24 lectures (approximately 30 min. each).
Contents:
Disc 4. The evolution of electrical technology. Static electricity and DC versus AC -- Making electricity: power generation -- Current on the move: the electric grid -- First connections: the telephone network -- The digital revolution in telecommunications -- Disc 2. Radio and television transmission -- Space communications and satellites -- Communication goes mobile: cell phones -- Electric circuit design -- Transistors and batteries -- How electronics use digital logic -- Disc 3. Computer processors and memory -- Computer networks: Ethernet to Internet -- Photonics: fiber optics to optical storage -- Many kinds of sensors all around us -- Electronics scavenger hunt -- Electronics of sound and music -- Disc 4. Electronics in medicine and safety -- Control systems: smart cars and smart grids -- Informatics: signal processing to AI -- Networks of Things: RFID, Bluetooth, and IoT -- Electrical engineering in the everyday world -- The evolution of electrical technology.
Summary:
To many of us, electricity can still seem like the "magic" our ancestors imagined it to be when they saw it in the natural world. But the science of electricity is considerably more amazing than magic, as you'll see in the 24 fascinating lectures of Electrical Engineering for Everyone. With dozens of live demonstrations, along with explanatory graphics and video, Dr. Laura J. Bottomley brings you on the amazing journey of electrical engineering, the discipline that has taken us from the electric lightbulb to interstellar space to artificial intelligence in less than 150 years.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.