What happens next?
Next steps Some of you taking this course may be interested in studying or working in Engineering, perhaps studying at a UK University like Birmingham. If completing this course has …
Course: Electrical Engineering: Sensing, Powering and Controlling
Digital Logic Examples
Combinatorial Logic We start off with a verbal description of what we want to achieve. We’ll return to the example mentioned at the end of the last activity, a …
Powering a Satellite in Space: What Is Required?
We’ll look at a satellite as a closed volume in space – an electrical system. The diagram below shows some of the inputs and outputs. (Click to expand) Nanosatellites We’re …
How to Power a Satellite
Before we consider the work undertaken by the SERENE group at the University of Birmingham, we’ll look at a much larger-scale spacecraft, China’s Tiangong 2 Space Laboratory. Tiangong 2 Tiangong …
What is Space Weather?
Every second, millions of tons of charged particles like electrons and protons shoot out from the surface of the sun at speeds of the order of a million miles an …
Building an Electrical Pick-up Device
Now that Tim has explained the design of the circuit, watch how the electrical pick-up circuit can be built with easily purchased electrical components. This demonstration is not intended for …
Sensors in Systems
Now let’s scale up our thinking, and consider the entire sound reinforcement system at a concert and think about all the systems processes taking place. We’ll think about them from …
Transducers in Systems: Sensors and Actuators
We’ll split this article into two sections – Sensors and Actuators. All the while that we’re talking about sensors, let’s not forget that since transduction is all about generating one …
Systems in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
In this article we’re going to take a closer look at the processes taking place inside an electrical system. For this example, we’re going to consider a sound reinforcement system. …
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Electrical Engineering: Sensing, Powering and Controlling