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Electronics Design Club Grows

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The Kansas State University Electronics Design Club has experienced immense growth this year.  With so many young members, the club has focused on developing design skills so that the students can design new projects.

The club has sponsored five guest presentations by ECE faculty this year for all engineering students.  Tim Sobering presented on the “Basics of Electronics” and on op amps.  Dr. Dwight Day spoke about his design work with SSI and gave a lecture entitled “The Hidden Secrets of Matlab”.  Dr. David Soldan gave a lecture about amateur radio in conjunction with an Amateur Radio Testing session being held at K-State.

Experienced club members developed several electronics kits for the club to assemble, use, and learn from.  The first kit is an easy to build 555 timer circuit that blinks LEDs.  A simple bipolar power supply kit was developed to teach power supply design.  A small audio amplifier kit was made to give students an introduction to amplifiers.  Finally, a simple LED matrix kit was used as an introduction to microcontrollers.  Each of these kits feature a custom printed circuit board and all of the parts required to build the project.

The club showed 15 projects at the K-State Engineering Open House, encompassing two rooms in the department.  In one room, the club showed LED projects in a darkened room, including an interactive 12×12 RGB LED table.  In the second room, the club showed projects ranging from 3D printers to quadcopters.  These projects helped show the public what electrical and computer engineering is all about.

The club, in conjunction with K-State’s IEEE chapter, gave away 150 useless box kits to the public at open house.  The club hopes to increase interest in engineering through these kits.

The club looks forward to taking on new projects and developing new kits next year.  For more information on the Electronics Design Club, visit www.k-state.edu/eclub.

Garrett Peterson, president of the Electronics Design Club, demonstrating a EMG sensor at Open House
An assembled LED matrix kit developed by the Electronics Design Club
The 12×12 LED table project shown at Open House

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