BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

 

ECE 111: Introduction to ECE

Resources

 

Syllabus - HW & Solutions - Resources - Comments


Circuit Simulators

       Cicuit Lab ($24/year)

       LTSpice

o   Instructions for using LTSpice (youtube)

       PartSim


Matlab

       Download Matlab (link to NDSU license)

       Matlab for Beginners


HP35s Calculator

       RPN and Stacks

       Complex Numbers

       Solving f(x) = 0


SciLab

       Dowload latest version of SciLab

       Scilab for Beginners

       Download SciLab 5.3.3

       Scilab Controls System Toolbox (for SciLab 5.3.3)

       Control Systems Toolbox Instructions


StatTrek

       Normal Distribution

       t-Tables

       Chi-Squared Tables

       F-Tables


 Weather Data

       National Weather Service

       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CO2 Levels)

       National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Global Temperatures

       National Snow and Ice Data Center (Arctic Sea Ice)

       NDAWN: North Dakota Weather

 

Data Sets (from above locations)

       CO2 Levels vs Year (from NOAA)

       Temperature Deviations (from NOAA)

       Arctic Sea Ice (from NSIDC)

 

Fargo Weather (from Hector International Airport):

       Monthly High

       Monthly Low

       Monthly Average

       Monthly Rainfall

       Monthly Snowfall


Shopping!

       Pocket Oscilloscope (ebay)

       Powered Breadboard (ebay)

       Powered Breadboard (MPJ)

       SparkFun (arduino, rasberry pi, etc)

       AdaFruit (neopixels, RFID)

       LightHouse LEDs (ebay)