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Engineering education in analogue electronics

morgaine

Resources in support of education for future engineers are a common topic here, but we tend to focus more on the digital side of things and analogue gets comparatively little attention.  Those interested in  rounding out their electronics education a bit (or even a lot), maybe in preparation for a forthcoming course, may enjoy the following awesome product which is designed specifically to support education in analogue electronics:

 

Analog System Lab Kit PRO

 

"ASLK PRO has been produced by mikroElektronika for Texas Instruments.  This kit is designed for undergraduate engineering students to perform  analog lab experiments. The main idea behind ASLK PRO is to provide a  cost efficient platform or test bed for students to realize almost any  analog system using general purpose ICs such as OP-Amps and analog  multipliers."


The site at the link above provides lots of supporting materials for self-study, and also notes that TI donates up to 10 of these to US and EU universities with appropriate courses of study through their TI University Program.  It's very encouraging to see such a complete package of support for engineering education in the analogue domain along with the study materials to go with it.

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  • The board reminds me of the analog computer I used in my undergrad Analog Computing Lab.  Basically the same, except that my lab computer had all the electronics behind the panel and had larger patch cords.  The lab did teach one that Operational Amplifiers are called that because they perform operations.  However, they didn't bother to tell you why it's called  "analog".

     

    I suspect you can do a lot of this using a Cypress PSoC4 or 5, except that it's a tad harder to probe all the signals image

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    In the UK (and probably elsehwere) Philips used to make Electronic Engineer kits of varying sizes, components attached to  legs with a rubber type spreader between them. They used to plug into the box to make circuits.

     

    Just found a Norwegian site with references to the kits. http://ee.old.no/

     

    I can translate the Norwegian if needed.

     

    Colin

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  • in reply to bodgy

    Colin Barnard wrote:

     

    In the UK (and probably elsehwere) Philips used to make Electronic Engineer kits of varying sizes, components attached to  legs with a rubber type spreader between them. They used to plug into the box to make circuits.

     

    Just found a Norwegian site with references to the kits. http://ee.old.no/

     

    I can translate the Norwegian if needed.

     

    Colin

    Ah yes, I had a couple of those kits when I was a teen-ager (which was back in the days when "teenager" was still hyphenated image)  It was fun building the circuits and listening to them work, and got me familiar with the components and helped me memorize the resistor color code without needing a racist, sexist, and obscene mnemonic.  However, the kits really didn't get into learning why the circuits worked -- that didn't happen for analog until university days.  Digital I was able to learn on my own from books early in high school.