AC/DC Electronics

Unit 0: (1 week) Community building and P&P 

Unit 1: (2 week) Employability, Profession Standards and Careers 

Unit 2: (3 week) Teamwork and Project Management

Unit 3: (3 weeks) Safety, Tools and Team building

Unit 4:

(2week)  Basic direct current (DC) electricity principles

(1 week) Symbols/ Elements

(1 week) Math (Scientific Notations)

(1 week) describe series, parallel, and combination circuits

Unit 5:  (2 week) Alternating Current (AC) electricity principles

(2 Week) -Project base knowledge application

Unit 6: (2 week) OhKirchhoff's laws, and pm's law, power laws to circuits 

Unit 7: (4 week) Actual work situations. Concepts and skills to simulated and

 (2 Weeks) Wind Electronic Project

Unit 8: (2 Week) Renewable Energy and On Grid vs Off Grid Design

Unit 9: (3-4 Week) Project based:  student builds a prototype circuit using the appropriate tools, materials, and techniques.

Unit 0: (1 Week )

-Procedures & Getting to know students

-Unit 1: (2 Week) Employability, Profession Standards and Careers

• Choices 360 

• appropriate dress for the work environment

• Communication Skills

• Listening Skills

• Collaboration / teamwork skills

• Punctuality and time management

• Types of Jobs

-Identify local and regional labor markets

• differentiate between job titles positions

• Identify education, training and certifications

• Identify postsecondary education for the trade

-Unit 2: (3 week) Teamwork and Project Management

-explain the importance of teamwork in the field of electronics; 

-apply principles of effective teamwork and problem solving, including collaboration and conflict resolution; and 

-demonstrate proper attitudes as a team leader and team member.

- implement project management methodologies, including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing a project;

- develop a project schedule and complete work according to established criteria;

-participate in the organization and operation of a real or simulated engineering project; and 

-develop a plan for production of an individual product.

Unit 3: (3 weeks) Safety, Tools and Team building 

-master relevant safety tests; 

- comply with safety guidelines as described in various manuals, instructions, and regulations; 

-identify governmental and organizational regulations for health and safety in the workplace related to electronics; 

-identify and classify hazardous materials according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and industry standards; 

-dispose of hazardous materials appropriately; 

-perform maintenance on selected tools, equipment, and machines; 

-handle and store tools and materials correctly; and

-describe the results of improper maintenance of material, tools, and equipment

-Unit 4 (2 Week)Basics of Electricity

• Basics of Alternating Direct Current Principles

• switches, voltage source, current source, ground, resistors, fuses, circuit breakers, volt meters, amp meters, voltage, current, and resistance;

-Unit 4 Solar Electronic Project

• Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, and power laws to circuits

• series, parallel, and combination circuits

• Circuit Design

• Array, Array Current and Voltage, BTU, Fixed Tilt Array, Grid, Kilowatt, KW KWH, Orientation, Passive Solar, PV or Photovoltaic Effect, Photovoltaic Cell, Tracking Array 

Fall CCA

-Unit 5 Wind Electronic Project

• OhKirchhoff's laws, and pm's law, power laws to circuits

• series, parallel, and combination circuits

• Circuit Design

• Adequacy, Aggregation, Airfoil, Anemometer, Armature, Availability Factor, Balancing, Betz Coefficient, Blades, Braking System, Capacity, Capacity Factor, Chord, Cut-In Speed, Cut-Out Speed, Cowling, Direct Drive, Feathering, Footing, Furling, Hub, Inverter, Jacket, Katabatic Wind, Nacelle, Peak Wind Speed, Power Curve, Rated Wind Speed, Rotor, Reynolds Number, Root End, Twist, Tail, Tail Boom, Tip Speed Ratio (TSR), Wind Farm, Wind Power Class, Wind Shear, Wind Vane, and Yaw

-Unit 6 Renewable Energy and On Grid vs Off Grid Design

• Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, and power laws to circuits

• series, parallel, and combination circuits

-Unit 7  Renewable Energy and On Grid vs Off Grid Design

• -interpret industry standard circuit schematics;

•  identify areas where quality, reliability, and safety can be designed into a circuit;

• improve a circuit design to meet a specified need;

• sketch schematics; and

• explore new technologies that may affect electronics.

Unit 8: Group Project: Off Grid Power Station using 2 types of renewable energy 

Spring CCA

Required Project: (1 Week)

UNIT 1 - 

-Research Types of Electronic Industries.

-Careers: levels for employees

-Education levels

Required Project: (1-2 Weeks)

-Build a 24v series connection using 12v batteries to power the system. 

-Build a parallel connection using 12v batteries to power the system. 

- 12v Solar Circuit to recharge battery and power lights.

Required Project: (2-3 week)

-Windmill Prototype (4 teams/4 windmill)

week 1, each team builds a working prototype.

week 2, each team evaluates a different team’s prototype.

Required Project: (3-4 Week) 

-students are to build a working off grid prototype power system that uses at least 2 renewable energy sources with a rechargeable working station and working lights.  (wind, solar, hydro, etc.) project can be a mock home, power plant, or just a stand alone system)

Additional Activities: (1 Week)

-Work in teams 

-Tool Exams

-OSHA poster 

-Choices 360

Additional Activities: (1 Week)

-Poster boards with (3-4 teams)

• math formulas

• Ohm’s / Power Laws

• Types of connections (S/P)

-Wire striping and crimping

Additional Activities:

-identify actual electronic components, including resistors, capacitors, switches, fuses, power sources, and inductors

-demonstrate an understanding of magnetism and induction

-perform electrical

-troubleshoot a system of choice

-explain where counter electromotive force (CEMF) comes from in a motor.

Additional Activities:          -Poster boards with (3-4 teams)

• explore new technologies. that may affect electronics

• sketch schematics design.

Employability Skills:

-Professionalism

-Ethics

Employability Skills:

Teamwork-Problem Solving

Employability Skills:

-Self Management Skill

-Conflict Resolution-Leadership

Employability Skills:

Communication Skills

Teamwork-Problem Solving

-Self Management Skill

-Conflict Resolution-Leadership