Electrical Engineering

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Electrical Engineering

• Andrew Ferguson
• aferguso_at_mines.edu
• andrew_at_fergcorp.com

Version 1.1 18 Mar 09
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Electrical engineering

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

Source http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_en
gineering
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Colorado School of Mines

• Power Systems
• (Big)

• Control Electronics
• (Small)

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Generation
Photo Andrew Ferguson (http//www.flickr.com/phot
os/afdn/2578386123/ )
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Transmission
Photo Andrew Ferguson (http//www.flickr.com/phot
os/afdn/2579170922/)
Photo Andrew Ferguson (http//www.flickr.com/phot
os/afdn/2532600693/)
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Electric Generators and Transformers
Photo Andrew Ferguson (http//www.flickr.com/phot
os/afdn/2313470403/)
Photo Andrew Ferguson (http//www.flickr.com/phot
os/afdn/2578334819/)
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Power Maintenance at the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center
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We Build What?
Source www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id3169
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Microcontrollers
Source http//flickr.com/photos/b0jan/1861610526/
Source https//www.zagrosrobotics.com/
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Assembly
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Field Programmable Gate Array
Source http//www.sphere.ws/blog/?p14
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Logic Gates
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Regular Old Circuits
Source http//flickr.com/photos/barnoid/483189414
/
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Cool Things
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Questions?
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