Electrical Engineering Technology
Broome Community College

These materials were developed on the big screen for a live audience. They are also suitable for reading on the Internet using Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.

The accompanying text for the course is Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, an editor for Wired Magazine.

Reading assignments can be found here !

Spring 98 Student Home Pages !
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Spring 99 Student Home Pages !
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Fall 2000 Student Home Pages !
Fall 2001 Student Home Pages !

Power Point Lectures (MS PPT Files)

• Course Introduction/History of Computing
• Using a Word Processor and an Editor
• Reading an Advertisment for a Personal Computer
• Electrical Power Generation and Distribution
• Transmission of Radio Signals
• Exploring a Large Commercial Building
• Loudspeakers and Amplifiers
• Television !
• Satellite Television
• Industrial Robotics !
• Computer Aided Design
• Bar Code Readers
• Electronic Soldering
• How the Internet Works
• Touch Tone Key Pads ...( Office 97 needed for full effect. )

Laboratory Exercises (MS Word)

• Electronic Mail
• Using the Internet
• Using Microsoft Word
• Preparing your Resume using MS Office 2000
• Making Electrical Measurements
• Calculating Energy Costs: Lighting in the AT Building
• Writing up a lab + Intro to Netscape
• Writing up the Power Calculation Lab $$$
• Create a personal Web Page using Netscape Composer
• Searching for topics on the Internet
• You're Lost ! Radio Direction Finder lab
• Writing up the RDF Lab + Info Search
• Exploration of the Applied Technology Building
• Satellite Sighting Laboratory
• Robotics Laboratory - the IBM 7535
• The Power Walk ! Neighborhood view of power/phone poles and wiring

• Computer Aided Design Laboratory
• Using Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare a speech...
• Surfing the Internet ... By the Numbers ...
• Internet Tools Part 2
• Professor Joe Biegen's Java Script Exercise!

Review Questions (MS Word Files)

• Computing terms, History of computers
• Word processing, and computer lingo
• Electricity definitions, usages
• Generating electricity
• Transmission of radio waves
• How Television Works !
• Loudspeakers and Amplifiers
• A Large Commercial Building
• Satellite Receivers
• Industrial Robotics
• Computer Aided Design
• Bar Code Readers
• Electronic Soldering
• How the Internet Works

Last updated July 2001 by JLA