Skip navigationLog in to follow, share, and participate in this community. The previous blog post focused on generalized number bases – an essential concept of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) that is often not covered well at the high school level. Another area where pre-coll... ECE Student Success Toolkit – Thinking at the Speed of Light
BackA motivated high school student can usually obtain appropriate high school math preparation for an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) or computer science course of study. Algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and ca... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Generalized Number Bases
BackIt is difficult for electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students to master the field’s many technical terms, abbreviations, and acronyms. While topics like resistance, capacitance, voltage, current, and po... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Electronics Glossaries
BackOne challenging aspect of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) is that electrical current is inherently difficult to visualize. Mechanical engineers see things spin and bend; chemical engineers see color changes ... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Online Circuit Simulator
BackA previous blog post in this series highlighted the free circuits textbook from the Free Electrical Engineering Textbook Initiative. The initiative is a joint effort among experienced, highly respected professors from... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Free Image Processing Textbook
BackThis is a follow-up to the previous post on how you can create CCDF charts quickly, and for free. That post ended with a nice-looking CCDF chart, shown below. Figure 1: CCDF Chart While this chart is correc... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Free CCDF Charts, Part 2
BackThere is an obvious, longstanding trend in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) toward energy conservation and ever-longer battery life. This is especially true in applications related to the Internet of Things (... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Free CCDF Charts
BackIf you will pardon the pun, an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) student must be solidly grounded in mathematical analysis to succeed in calculus, differential equations, Laplace transforms, and other areas of... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Free Math Analysis Textbook
BackAn electrical and computer engineering (ECE) student studying waveforms, noise, and signal modulation must generate and view a signal. Lab equipment is sometimes in short supply, and if no function generator is availa... ECE Student Success Toolkit - Cool Oscilloscope Benefits
BackThe field of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) is very broad; some well-known universities require 134 credits or more for a bachelor’s degree. Even with that many credits, there is no way an undergradua... ECE Student Success Toolkit – The Parametric Measurement Handbook
BackA college student recently told me that food at her school’s cafeteria costs about $132 per week, which is a considerable amount of money. The textbook for the introductory circuits class at the same school list... ECE Student Success Toolkit – Free circuits textbook
BackOpportunities for electrical and computer engineering (ECE) graduates seem to be virtually unlimited, with growth in health and medical devices, Internet of Things, consumer electronics, supercomputing, artificial int... ECE Student Success Toolkit
BackThe most recent blog post discussed the book Make it Stick, the Science of Successful Learning, by Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel, and Peter C. Brown. The authors’ intent is to replace the theory,... Making Learning Stick, Part 2
BackA frustrated elementary school teacher recently told me of her exasperation with teaching math. Just a week before the school’s mandated standardized tests, she had repeatedly drilled her students on adding and ... The first and second blog posts in this series described divisibility rules for 11, 7, and 21. To summarize: Divisor Rule Example 11 Chop, subtract 3476 347 – 6 = 341 34 – 1 = 33 7 or... Easy divisibility rules that hardly anybody knows (Part 3)
BackThe previous blog post described the “chop, subtract” rule for determining divisibility by 11. You chop the number’s ones digit and subtract it from what remains. If that difference is a multiple of ... Easy divisibility rules that hardly anybody knows (Part 2)
BackMost curriculum standards include divisibility rules for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10. A few also mention rules for divisibility by 8 or 12. Divisibility rules for numbers like 7, 11, 13, 17, 21, and so on are usually omi... Easy divisibility rules that hardly anybody knows (Part 1)
BackIt was encouraging to see so much attention on K-12 STEM activities at the recent ECEDHA Conference and ECExpo (#ECEDHA2018). As Keysight’s chief technical officer Jay Alexander observed, students are engaged by... Stepping up to ensure successful futures
BackMost of the conversation at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA) 2018 Conference and ECExpo focused on hardware, software, firmware, giga-this, femto-that, and all the cool app... A Novel Approach to Coding Theory
BackThe National Robotics Education Foundation predicts 500,000 robotics jobs will be created from 2016 through 2020. This is promising news for ECE students, instructors, and researchers, and the Electrical and Computer ... ECEDHA Leadership in Robotics
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