Download fateme km proposed ece1250 2240 project

Proposed summer project for graduate teaching assistant
This project would be to develop several demos that can be used in ECE1250 and ECE2240.
These will be small circuits, to demonstrate an individual concept, which can be shown in class.
Each circuit will have a circuit diagram, labels, etc. that make it easy to show on the big screen
using a document camera. The circuits will be powered by battery or MyDAQ, as needed, and
can be measured using a standard DVM or scope (MyDAQ or freestanding).
Neil and I have talked about the value of having demos for the class, each of us has developed a
few (FEW), and found them to be very useful in teaching. Students have commented very
positively about them. However, neither of us has had the time to develop additional demos.
We propose having a plastic crate of demos to be given to the instructor of ECE1250 and
another for ECE2240 that particular semester. Each demo will be numbered/correlated to the
textbook chapters it is associated with.
Proposed graduate TA: Fateme Km. Fateme is working on her MS degree with Dr. Neil Cotter.
He does not have research funding, but she has been diligently working as a TA for his classes.
Proposed TA stipend: 20 hours per week during summer 2016.
Demos
Chapter 1:
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How to measure the voltage, current and resistance.
Point out all different circuit elements
Chapter2:
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Series and parallel resistors
Ohm's law
Kirchhoff's laws
Resistors as sensors? (thermistors, etc…. these are done in the lab, should we have
them here too?)
Wheat Stone bridge
voltage and current dividers
Linear (resistor) versus nonlinear (LED) voltage-current curves
Chapter3:
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Node Voltage (difference between node voltage and voltage difference)
Superposition
Thevenin equivalent
Chapter4: Op-Amp chapter
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Standard op amp circuits (inv and noninv amps, voltage follower, inv and noninv
summer, difference amp, comparator)
** for this chapter we would like to have hard-circuits that copy the op amp circuit cards
digital demo
Chapter5:
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RC and RL driven by square wave
Chapter6:
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RLC driven by square wave
Chapter7:
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RLC circuits driven by sine waves
phase shift and complex numbers
Filter circuits (LP, HP)
Chapter8:
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AC power, Matlab demo
Chapter9:
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RCL Filters
Chapter10:
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Laplace, Decaying RC driving another RC
Chapter11:
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Low-pass, High-pass filters (design, higher order)