Electrical Engineering

Andrew Fergusonaferguso@mines.edu

andrew@fergcorp.com

Version 1.1 – 18 Mar 09

Electrical engineering…

• Field of engineering that deals with the study and application of:– Electricity– Electronics– Electromagnetism

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering

Colorado School of Mines

Power Systems

(Big)

Control Electronics

(Small)

Generation

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Transmission

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Electric Generators and Transformers

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Power Maintenance at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

We Build What?

Source: www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=3169

Microcontrollers

Source: http://flickr.com/photos/b0jan/1861610526/Source: https://www.zagrosrobotics.com/

Field Programmable Gate Array

Source: http://www.sphere.ws/blog/?p=14

Logic Gates

Regular Old Circuits

Source: http://flickr.com/photos/barnoid/483189414/

Cool Things

Questions?

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