Project
# | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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22 | ECE Learning Circuits |
Cody Bainbridge Isha Garg Neel Patel |
Prashant Shankar | design_document1.pdf design_document2.pdf final_paper1.pdf proposal1.pdf |
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The motivation behind this project is to solve the problem that many high school students face which is the struggle to choose the right engineering major to study in college. We also want to teach younger students in an interactive way to learn more about electrical and computer engineering topics. Our circuits will be designed in three stages of difficulty: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. We will create the beginner and intermediate circuits to teach students about digital logic and the various kinds of sensors. The advanced circuit will be solving Professor Goddard’s RF constrained circuit. The beginner circuit will teach young students about all the logic gates (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, NAND, NOR, and XNOR) and they will be able to input their own values and observe the circuit output the answer on LEDs and they will record the result down and continue experimenting. We will use TTL chips, switches, and LEDs to design this circuit on a PCB. The intermediate circuit will teach young students about sensors. We are planning to make a series of circuits that illustrate the behavior of different kinds of sensors. For example, teaching students how thermistors and photoresistors work in circuit design. We plan to use sensors that we have not used as well to make this part of the project more challenging and we will increase the amount of senros we teach. This will also be implemented on a PCB. The advanced circuit for our project will find a solution to Professor Goddard’s FM transmitter which is also a circuit that teaches students on ECE topics. We will be designing and solving this on a protoboard. Overall, we will create a plan and document our work in our lab notebook each week and receive assistance from the TA to make sure that we are on track for success. To be effective, the circuit will need to, at a minimum, teach the user all the logic gates, cover a wide range of sensors, and solve professor Goddard’s constrained FM transmitter. |