Electrical Engineering for Everyone

Discovering the four major revolutions in electrical engineering.

Considering how electrons use their energy-carrying ability to create electricity.

Considering how the massive amounts of energy needed to power cities and homes are created.

Exploring the U.S. power grid, much of which has been in place for more than 50 years.

Exploring the engineering developments that bring the telephone to almost all households.

Learning how the digital telephone system revolutionizes communication.

Examining the developments that lead to the television monitor and digital TV.

Following the stories behind space communications and satellites.

Examining how engineers create cellular systems to manage large numbers of calls at once.

Learning why just two laws provide all the information needed to design circuits.

Learning how two technologies allow the move from electric circuits to electronic circuits.

How logic gates combine to form logic gate circuits.

Exploring the earliest electronic computers, which include Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Exploring the development of the Ethernet and internet.

Discovering the many benefits of fiber optics; the broader field known as photonics.

Exploring the proliferation of sensors in the current day; examining their similarities.

Exploring the electronics in a typical home through a virtual scavenger hunt.

Exploring what the signal scope output can say about the makeup of various sounds.

How human bodies can open the door to electrical engineering solutions for medical problems.

Examining several cybernetic systems, including a common vending machine.

Learning what is needed to create a reliable and safe system of self-driving cars.

Discovering the advantages of the Internet of Things.

Going on a virtual trip to Rwanda to see examples of electrical engineering all around the world.

Considering what the future of electrical engineering will look like.