{"title":"On the edge: Water works","authors":"R. Dettmer","doi":"10.1049/EE.2009.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2009.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The author reports on a novel approach to wave energy, based on wave-driven pumps producing high-pressure water.","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122880984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The learning bug","authors":"Simon Clapson, J. Fisher","doi":"10.1049/EE.2009.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2009.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Tendring Technology College has harnessed a robotic buggy and Web-based learning to transform D&T and ICTteaching.","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130651973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The big day","authors":"F. Dainty","doi":"10.1049/EE.2009.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2009.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Ridgewood School in north Doncaster is one of the UK's leading specialist schools in engineering and related technologies. The school has recently been awarded a second specialism in applied learning, and welcomes over 1,400 pupils through its doors every day. The author describes how the IET’s Faraday Web site, with a shot of inspiration from the BBC’s ‘Dragon’s Den’, formed the basis of a highly successful STEM enrichment day.","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122272274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"If you ask me: Who's afraid of the VLE?","authors":"Laurie Denton","doi":"10.1049/EE.2009.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2009.0010","url":null,"abstract":"What's the sensible response to the VLE (virtual learning environment)? Should you ignore it? After all, if it's just another vacuous initiative, it will eventually ‘go away’. The author argues that teachers should take a positive approach to the use of VLEs.","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"377 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116326069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PICs for access","authors":"Jim Smith","doi":"10.1049/EE.2009.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2009.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The author explains how the imaginative use of PICs, combined with a specially-developed circuit board, can transform pupil attitudes to electronics.","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132268732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An awfully big adventure","authors":"R. Dettmer","doi":"10.1049/EE.2009.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2009.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Some three years from now, if all goes to plan, a UK fighter pilot will be strapped into an ultra-slim jet and rocket-powered vehicle prior to hurtling across some ten miles of carefully-selected desert at a maximum speed of over 1,000 mph. If successful, the car Bloodhound SSC (SuperSonic Car) will smash the existing world land-speed record of 763 mph, set by Thrust SSC in October 1997, by the largest incremental increase in history. In this article, the author looks at how the Bloodhound SSC‘s attempt is being harnessed to inspire young people to take up careers in science and engineering.","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131549929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feedback: A good read","authors":"Kevin Shirtcliffe","doi":"10.1049/EE.2008.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2008.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131563831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective fault-finding. Part 1","authors":"John Martin","doi":"10.1049/EE.2008.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/EE.2008.0006","url":null,"abstract":"In the Autumn 2007 issue of Electronics Education, Joe Brock presented an introduction to the basics of fault-finding. This follow-up article, the first in a series of three, expands on Joe's introductory guide with an in-depth examination of the fault problems associated with conventional ‘hard-wired’ PCBs, i.e. printed circuit boards that do not incorporate a microcontroller such as PIC. The author takes a detailed look at techniques designed to promote effective fault prevention and detection insuch circuit boards.","PeriodicalId":431789,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Education","volume":"650 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123348781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}