Kids who fall in love with technology and engineering have never had it better. There's no shortage of websites and tutorial videos and hardware kits meant to teach them the fundamentals of ...

What you’ll learn: The basic metallurgy of solder. How to make a solder joint. How to repair a circuit board. The vintageTEK museum is a geek’s paradise to tour if visiting the Portland ...

Circuit Cubes, a startup founded by two longtime educators, seeks to teach kids the basics of electronics and circuitry with pure fun.

Experiments are integrated with Circuit Theory II. Experiments cover: Kirchhoff's laws for phasors, magnitude and phase measurements of impedance, network theorems, frequency response, resonance, ...

Intel: Back to engineering basics Intel's Paul Otellini says the plethora of technical and public relations mistakes that his company has made over the past two years won't be repeated.

First, education and training within our industry about the engineering behind the grid and circuit protection leaves a lot to be desired. Historically, not a lot of people have studied the real ...

In last month's “Code Basics” article, starting on page 56 of the September issue, we spent most of our time discussing Class 1 circuits. Now, it's time to switch gears and focus on Class 2 and 3.

In the electrical profession, questions still arise about what type of circuit breaker to use with surge protectors. Don't make this task more difficult than it has to be. Choosing the right device is ...

We are used to stories about reverse engineering integrated circuits, in these pages. Some fascinating exposés of classic chips have been produced by people such as the ever-hard-working [Ken ...