TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is Energy?
With an introduction to the ideas of energy, students discuss specific types of energy and the practical sources of energy. Hands-on activities help them identify types of energy in their surroundings and enhance their understanding of...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Hydroelectric Waterwheel
Can you generate electricity from the flow of water by designing a waterwheel? In this challenge, students will be using everyday objects to create their waterwheel. This site contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to...
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech: The Eniac
This site has the description and history of the ENIAC, including its development and use in World War II.
Other
Cdli: Science Fairs Homepage
At this site from the Center for Distance Learning and Innovation there's a monstrous listing of possible science fair projects. You can choose from primary (grades 1-4), elementary (grades 4-6), intermediate (grades 7-9), or senior...
Curated OER
History Matters: Eyewitness to Murder: Recounting the Ludlow Massacre
An eyewitness account provided by an electrical engineer about the brutal Ludlow Massacre in which three women and eleven children were killed in a tent city in Ludlow, Colorado, during the height of the Colorado Coal Strike.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Ac Circuit Analysis
This electrical engineering activity uses a TI graphing calculator to analyze AC circuits including sine waves, capacitance and inductive reactance, solving series AC circuits, and RMS calculations.
MadSci Network
The Mad Scientist Network: How Is a Jet Engine Started?
Using a question and answer format, this page explains the details of how a jet engine can be started. The different types of starters and when they are usually used is discussed.
University of St. Andrews (UK)
University of St. Andrews: Charles Augustin De Coulomb
A large complete authoritative biography of Coulomb. Five large pictures, over a dozen links to contemporaries, references, a poster, other mathematicians. A fine source.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
Science Museum, London
Science Museum: Robot Bugs
Build a robot and watch how it moves. Activity is designed to help students learn how electrical circuits and switches control how things move.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Arc Lamp
Invented decades before it could be used, the first type of electric light was so brilliant it was used for lighthouses and street lamps.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Alexander Bain
Find out about the life and work of Alexander Bain, the Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock.
Black Past
Black Past: Woods, Granville T.
A fascinating encyclopedia article about Granville Woods, a black inventor,often referred to as the "black Edison."
Energy for Sustainable Development
Esd Bulgaria: Kids & Energy: Energy Pioneers: John Presper Eckert Jr.
A profile of John Presper Eckert Jr., an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer.
Other
Nanozone Comics: They Came From His Lab!
Follow the adventures Of Kris Pister as he evolves from love of rockets to an interest electrical enginering. Interesting ideas are presented on how smaller and smaller robots can be used in everyday life.
Other
Technical Writing: The Conjunction Or
Intended as a grammar reference for electrical engineers, this site addresses many of the technical issues of writing, including distinguishing between the inclusive and exclusive definitions of "or."
Other
Ee Times: Women E Es Move Up, Despite Obstacles
Article provides a case study of the changing roles for women in modern society - specifically changes that have occurred in the career paths of female electrical engineers.
University of California
University of California: 1895 1923 Mrs. Ayrton
This article, "Reminiscences written by A. P. Trotter, President of The Institution of Electrical Engineers," recounts the author's appreciation for the work of Mrs. Hertha Ayrton, a brilliant experimental scientist who made significant...
Other
National Physical Laboratory: The History of Length Measurement
This resource provides historic information on length measurement in the United Kingdom. Click on the topics on the left toolbar of the article to find out more information.
Hunkins Experiments
The Secret Life of Machines
An entertaining site that communicates ideas through cartoon drawings. Discover how simple machines and gadgets operate, such as fax machines and washing machines.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: Charles Franklin Kettering
This website provides a biography of Charles Kettering (1876-1958) and describes his inventions for the automobile, including an electrical ignition system.
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Delco
The automotive industry was expanding in the beginning of the 20th century. Read about a company that was developing improvements for automobils, the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, otherwise known as Delco.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Hybrid Automobiles
Examine a car engine illustration to discover the relationship between a motor and a generator. List the pros and cons of hybrid cars, and create a poster on series hybrid cars, parallel hybrid cars or how hybrid cars are different from...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Building Ant Bot
Learn how to build a robot that can mimic basic ant walking & running behavior.