Junior Year

For the first couple of shop weeks during my junior year I tutored new freshman for their exploratory weeks where they go to a certain shop each week to see which one they would like to go into. It was a great experience as I was able to meet all kinds of people and was able to collaborate with them to help them succeed in not only this shop but other shops they would like to go into. The following is one of the many reports I had for the freshman and my opinions/ thoughts on the freshman to show I tried my best to show them what the BVT experience is all about. Note: In this specific report I tutored two freshman at the same time which was a task I wasn't ready for, but one that I needed to take. 

This lab is where my group mates and I had to create a common-emitter circuit using a transistor and had to figure out the biasing for this circuit and the effects of having the transistor in forward or reverse-bias. We also measured the gain of this specific circuit as we tried to see the effects that this specific circuit would have when using a transistor and the ways it could be used in the real world. 

This lab is where my group mates and I had to create multiple basic Op-Amp circuits so see and test the types of uses an Op-Amp can have. We used it as a current amplifier, voltage to current converter, and a current to voltage converter to really understand how Op-Amps can be used and how I can use Op-Amps in multiple scenarios. 

This is my final lab for the junior year and this lab is an accumulation of all the things I have learned my junior year into this Op-Amp Experiment were we had to troubleshoot many points of a complex Op-Amp circuit. In this lab I realized each of these Op-Amp parts are types of circuits I already knew which surprised me and how they were all combined to create this circuit. I was able to learn great troubleshooting skills and also more ways Op-Amps can be used with the added experience of Ultiboard and Inventor!