Watch Electrical Engineering for Everyone

2023
1 Season

The science of electricity is considerably more amazing than magic. 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.

Electrical Engineering for Everyone is a series that ran for 1 seasons (24 episodes) between April 20, 2023 and on The Great Courses

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24. The Evolution of Electrical Technology

April 20, 2023

What does the future of electrical engineering look like? Explore why answering that question depends on technological advances and

23. Electrical Engineering in the Everyday World

April 20, 2023

Dr. Bottomley takes you on a virtual vacation to Rwanda to highlight myriad examples of electrical engineering all around the world. From your garage door opener to airport security, the technologies developed by electrical engineers are all around you before you even board the plane. But it

22. Networks of Things: RFID, Bluetooth, and IoT

April 20, 2023

With the technological development of sensors, feedback control, Bluetooth, and machine learning, we can now network not just computers, but

21. Informatics: Signal Processing to AI

April 20, 2023

When we drive a car, we process signals from all aspects of our environment

20. Control Systems: Smart Cars and Smart Grids

April 20, 2023

Explore cybernetics, systems that use information and feedback to control an output that has some type of goal, with feedback present. Discover the various parts of several cybernetic systems: your car

19. Electronics in Medicine and Safety

April 20, 2023

The entire communication system between our brain and each of our senses is electrochemical, with each of our senses acting as a sensor that emits electrochemical outputs. Learn how this aspect of the body opens the door to electrical engineering solutions for medical problems

18. Electronics of Sound and Music

April 20, 2023

While sound is not part of the electromagnetic spectrum, it can be manipulated, generated, and shaped by electric circuits. Explore what the signalscope output can tell you about the makeup of various sounds, from a single tone to the human voice to piano chords, and how these can be manipulated by circuits to synthesize entirely new sounds.

17. Electronics Scavenger Hunt

April 20, 2023

Explore the electronics in a typical home through this episode

16. Many Kinds of Sensors All around Us

April 20, 2023

Electronic sensors

15. Photonics: Fiber Optics to Optical Storage

April 20, 2023

Discover the many benefits of fiber optics, and the broader field known as photonics, and learn why the field and its applications have exploded since the first lasers were developed in the 1960s. Although we cannot yet transmit power over optical fiber, the technology has brought great advantages in communications security and speed, materials longevity, and cost savings.

14. Computer Networks: Ethernet to Internet

April 20, 2023

In the original telephone system, the connection stayed in place until that one conversation was complete. But when email was developed in the 1970s and

13. Computer Processors and Memory

April 20, 2023

Explore the earliest electronic computers, including Charles Babbage

12. How Electronics Use Digital Logic

April 20, 2023

With the advent of logic gates that could be assembled to perform mathematical or logical calculations, engineers could build up from very simple transistors and diodes to a powerful graphic calculator or complex system of facial recognition. Learn about why the numerical basis for logic gates is binary, and how they can be combined to form logic gate circuits.

11. Transistors and Batteries

April 20, 2023

The development of the transistor was motivated by the need for a device that could amplify signals. How batteries could convert chemical energy to electrical energy was also developed. Learn how the emergence of these two technologies have allowed us to move from electric circuits to electronic circuits, in which one circuit controls another.

10. Electric Circuit Design

April 20, 2023

When people first realized that electricity could be controlled, it was the beginning of an explosion of opportunity, eventually leading to electronic circuits

9. Communication Goes Mobile: Cell Phones

April 20, 2023

Since 2006, the number of landlines has decreased, while the quantity of mobile phones and other communication devices now outnumber the entire human population. Explore how engineers have created the cellular systems required to manage large numbers of calls at once, even as the user moves from place to place.

8. Space Communications and Satellites

April 20, 2023

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957, the space race was on. A US satellite was launched 14 months later and it demonstrated the feasibility of two-way satellite communications. Since then, electronic communications have become part of our daily lives. Follow the fascinating story that has led to the need for us to track almost 10,000 active satellites.

7. Radio and Television Transmission

April 20, 2023

In the 1880s, Heinrich Hertz proved that the high-frequency phenomena of light and heat are also electromagnetic waves and Nikola Tesla invented the

6. The Digital Revolution in Telecommunications

April 20, 2023

In the old-style analog telephone system, voltage increased and decreased across the wires, corresponding to the human voice signal. But in a digital system, that all changes. Learn how the human voice is changed into binary values, sent over the system, and then converted back into volts with the voltage applied to the speaker in the phone handset. The human ear takes it from there.

5. First Connections: The Telephone Network

April 20, 2023

In the 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell was trying to improve the telegraph when he and his assistant discovered that speech itself could be transmitted over telegraph wires. Explore the subsequent engineering developments that brought the telephone to almost all households, including Bell

4. Current on the Move: The Electric Grid

April 20, 2023

No matter what source is used to generate electricity, that power must be distributed and managed to provide continuous and reliable energy for the end user. Explore the US power grid

3. Making Electricity: Power Generation

April 20, 2023

How do we create the massive amounts of energy needed to power our cities and individual homes? We don

2. Static Electricity and DC versus AC

April 20, 2023

From the moment your phone alarm wakes you in the morning until you turn off the lights at night, almost everything you do

1. Four Miracles of Electrical Engineering

April 20, 2023

Discover the four revolutions in electrical engineering that have brought major opportunities and benefits to masses of people in just the past 150 years. Learn, specifically, what each of the four periods brought and the basic properties of the electron and electric circuits on which our entire electrified world is based.

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