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

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Circuit Simulators

▪ Cicuit Lab ($24/year)

▪ LTSpice

o Instructions for using LTSpice (youtube)

▪ PartSim

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Matlab

▪ Download Matlab (link to NDSU license)

▪ Matlab for Beginners

HP35s Calculator

▪ RPN and Stacks

▪ Complex Numbers

▪ Solving f(x) = 0

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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

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StatTrek

▪ Normal Distribution

▪ t-Tables

▪ Chi-Squared Tables

▪ F-Tables

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 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

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Shopping!

▪ Pocket Oscilloscope (ebay)

▪ Powered Breadboard (ebay)

▪ Powered Breadboard (MPJ)

▪ SparkFun (arduino, rasberry pi, etc)

▪ AdaFruit (neopixels, RFID)

▪ LightHouse LEDs (ebay)