Teaching Pre-Calculus Students Electrical Engineering Principles Using Low Cost Hardware

Using low cost hardware and the Visual Basic programming language, we have developed teaching modules which can effectively introduce basic science and technology principles at several levels from high school to freshman Electrical Engineering. We have tested these methods in a NSF sponsored course designed to teach high school teachers how to introduce science and technology to their students. To illustrate how the software tool and inexpensive hardware can be used to aid learning and teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering concepts in the classroom we present example experiments.