Almost all of us in industrialized countries take our electrically powered world for granted every single day, and most of us don’t understand much about it. Electricity can still seem like the “magic” our ancestors imagined it to be when they saw it in the natural world. But electricity is considerably more amazing than magic, as you’ll see in the 24 fascinating lectures of Electrical Engineering for Everyone. With dozens of live demonstrations, along with explanatory graphics and video, Dr. Laura J. Bottomley brings you on the amazing journey of electrical engineering—the discipline that has taken us from the electric lightbulb to interstellar space to artificial intelligence in less than 150 years.
Learning about electrons, circuits, batteries, and sensors makes a lot more sense when you can see it all in action—and that’s exactly what Electrical Engineering for Everyone provides. As you actively see the effects of electrons moving in circuits, magnetic fields, fiber optics, sensors, and more in this course’s dozens of demonstrations, you will better understand the ways in which electricity and electronics operate in your own life.
What comes next in electrical engineering? Although we can’t know what will come next any more than Thomas Edison could have envisioned the hundreds of geosynchronous satellites we now rely on for daily communication, the National Academy of Engineering has established fourteen “Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century” whose solutions would benefit all. Challenges that specifically speak to electrical engineers include making solar energy economical, improving and restoring urban infrastructure, and engineering the tools of scientific discovery, among others.
As electrical engineers tackle these enormous challenges, the “magical” properties of electricity and magnetism will guide the way—the very properties and functions you will learn about in Electrical Engineering for Everyone.