Teaching Materials

Here are some resources to introduce your students to electrical engineering:

• What is an electrical engineer and what do they do?
• A brochure on "What is an Electrical Engineer?" by IEEE, the world's largest association of technical professionals. 
• Here and here are some lesson plans about electronics you can try with your students! These include projects such as Using Ohm's Law to Build a Voltage Divider and Sketching Circuitry.
• Introduction to Arduino. (Arduino is an open-source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board and a piece of software that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.) [Description from Sparkfun]
• To prepare your students for the lab tours being offered during EE Spotlight 2018, we recommend these resources:
  What is Photonics?
  A brief Introduction to Radio and Antennas
  NASA Explains Optical Communication!
  How Do Photovoltaics Work?

What is Morse Code? Why is it used?

Morse Code is a method for transmitting information through a series of on/off lights, clicks, or pulses that can be understood by converting the received dots and dashes into letters of the alphabet. The telegraph used this method to send messages long distances; it used electrical signals to represent the dots and dashes. The first telegraph invented by Samuel Morse, Leonard Gale, and Alfred Vail generated signals by opening and closing circuits then transmitting the signals to receivers using wires.

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Check out this video by the USC Solar Car team! Learn more about what they do and how they do it on March 1st at STEM Spotlight on EE!