Electrical Engineering 101

I have a little of electronic knowledge. if you are beginner. I can draw some circuit for your learn and give its principle (I hve some time recently) you'd better to use web site for your study. because most of them are all specialist at the topic.

simply google "electricity tutorial" and "electronics tutorial" for lots of help. Also, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has a large EE curriculum on line, at

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm

Well, there are plenty of sites on the internet where you can find lots of circuits to build.

http://discovercircuits.com/list.htm

http://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/index.html

Circuits and electrical information

http://www.designnotes.com/

And online kits

http://www.elektor-electronics.co.uk/

And plenty more.

I have a degree in Computer and Electronics Engineering. I would suggest you take time to really understand the basic building blocks of circuits (i.e Resistors, Capacitors, and Inductors) before you move on to more advanced topics. Wikipedia has some really good material on the subject. I would also advise you to do some research on Ohm's Law.

Consider your local Library first. Try to check out the book "Electronics Communication" by Schrader, cir 1978. Excellent book, basic electronics equal to any 2-Year Technical Institute.

You won't be disappointed. There-in is enough technical information to prepare you for an FCC test and License. Cost is about $95.00 New, in market place. Good reading, good fortune to you!

Ron

Heathkit, www.heathkit.com has very nice material and kits available for learning electronics. I appreciated the balance between the theory in the books and the real world part when building circuits with the kits.

wow - I thought Heathkit had gone the way of the dinosaurs.

If you are really interested, get a Boylestead Book. It will give you all you need on Circuits

"Introductory to Circuit Analysis"

Then you can experience nodal and mesh analysis

Have fun

Another extremely useful and practical text is The ARRL Handbook For Radio Amateurs (aka, The Radio Amateur's Handbook). You can buy these new and used on Amazon.com for as little as $12 (US).

This book not only gives you an excellent grounding in electronics fundamentals, but also gives you ideas for various projects you can build to put your new knowledge into immediate practice (nothing instills confidence quite like seeing something you built actually work). Even better, it teaches you the electronics principles you'll need to know to get your own ham radio license, should you be so inclined, so that you talk, on-the-air, to like-minded radio amateurs ("hams") next door or on the other side of the world. It's a lot of fun! (and even more fun if you do it on a radio you built yourself!)

-e

A shop called Tandy used to sell components and produced a great intro book full of projects. Unfortunately I lost mine and the shop has now closed , but you may find it on e-bay if anyone knows the title.Being able to identify components and use a soldering gun is a good start . Building a crystal radio may be a good project. It depends where you are and what components you can scavenge .Good luck

Tandy is the parent company for Radio Shack in the US. Not my favorite store by any means. Amazon is also a great place to find books, as well as your local used book store. A local university book store may have some used books as well.

I've recently discovered a magazine called Nuts and Volts, which is something like the old Popular Electronics. You can find it online.

I would suggest Radio Shack, they sell an electronic kit that you can play and built circuits. The kit includes resistors, transistors, diodes, capacitors, etc., also included is a circuit book that you follow to build the circuit. It's great for beginner to learn about electrical components and circuits. The kit itself sells around $50 USD, but I think its worth the money for what it includes.

MidniteFighter

go to radio shack and buy a 50$ 300 electronics experimenter kit

get the book, "electrical engineering 101" by Darren Ashby, it is an easy and fun read to get you started, has some good stuff on general sucess in the workplace too.

I am trying to build an engineering training site that might help a little bit at:

http://www.learningmeasure.com

I really would like some feedback as well on what would be useful for people.