ECE Workshops: Overview

Welcome to the SLCCE Electrical & Computer Engineering workshop curriculum. These are the hands-on materials our volunteers and students work through together during in-person sessions. They are designed to build on one another, so the series grows over time: Workshop One, Two, Three, and beyond.

How to use these workshops

Each workshop is a self-contained lab. A typical session runs like this:

1. Read together. Volunteers and students walk through the concept sections; key terms are shown in bold and important components are collected in reference tables.
2. Build. Students assemble the circuits described in the workshop on their own breadboards.

3. Complete the tasks. Each workshop contains one or more numbered Tasks, shown as highlighted callouts:

   Task 1: Example task

   Build the circuit described above and present it to an SLCCE member to move ahead in the workshop.

4. Demonstrate to advance. Students show each completed task to an SLCCE member before moving on; this keeps the group together and makes sure the fundamentals are solid before adding complexity.

Safety first

These are electronics labs. A few ground rules apply to every workshop:

Before you build

• Always double-check component polarity before connecting power. LEDs and other polarized parts can be damaged if wired backwards.
• Disconnect the power source before rewiring your breadboard.
• Ask an SLCCE member if you are unsure about a connection.

Safety and troubleshooting language in each workshop is written to be read aloud during a session; please keep the exact wording intact.

Workshop list

The curriculum is being converted from our workshop source documents and will be published here one workshop at a time.

#	Workshop	Focus
1	Breadboarding, Ohm's Law & LEDs	Breadboards, closed vs. open circuits, Ohm's Law, LEDs, series & parallel resistance, turn-on voltage

More workshops coming

Additional workshops will be added to this list and to the navigation menu as their source materials are converted.