In their S1 project, 1st-year Electrical and Electronic Engineering students combine all the knowledge they have gained so far.

The students are given a functional assignment:

Design, test and demonstrate an electronic system that generates a continuous sequence (digital electronic sequence) of signals (think light, sound, vibration) and adjusts the sequence via an external influence (touch, sound, light, magnetism)

The challenge is to make something fun out of this in groups of 3-4 especially.

Thus, students ensure:

• realise their first PCB design (printed circuit board, a board on which signals and current are routed between devices)
• working with their laptop oscilloscope (a measuring instrument that can visualise cyclic variations in an electrical quantity)
• ordering components, which also sometimes fatally fail in use

Main challenges are:

• communication and task distribution in the project group
• submitting the PCB design on time
• eliminating design errors
• being able to properly demonstrate the operation of the system

In this way, the Electrical Engineering students learn in a realistic project setting to achieve the final result together on time.

A nice peek at the delivery and assessment by teachers during Event Week on 26 January:

Source: HAN
Photography: Erik Rijpstra