General IEEE
The expanded form of the acronym 'IEEE'.
What is Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers?
A device composed of two electrical surfaces separated by an insulating material.
What is a capacitor?
The equation V = I*R
What is ohm's law?
The unit used to measure power.
What is a Watt?
A term describing AI models that understand and generate human-like text.
What is a Large Language Model (LLM)?
Another IEEE club at Western focused on topics in the energy sector.
What is PES?
A device that allows current to flow in only one direction.
What is a diode?
The voltage and frequency of U.S. wall outlets.
What is 120V and 60Hz?
The main source of renewable energy generation in the state of Washinton.
What is Hydroelectric Power?
This term refers to the smallest unit of data in a computer, typically represented as either a 0 or 1.
What is a bit?
The cost of an IEEE membership for undergraduates.
What is $32?
The colloquial name for a metal spring-loaded clip with a serrated jaw.
What is an alligator clip?
A visual method of simplifying Boolean expressions.
What is a K-map?
This physics trick is used to determine the direction of the induced magnetic field caused by a current flow.
What is the right hand rule?
This was digitally mined in an EECE Lab several years ago and was later found to be worth lots of money.
What is Bitcoin?
This is the IEEE tagline.
What is "Advancing Technology for Humanity"?
A wire wrapped into a coil that stores energy in a magnetic field.
What is an inductor?
The expanded form of the acronym FPGA.
What is Field Programmable Gate Array
The machine used in the majority of U.S. power generation.
This was the coding language used to develop Roller Coaster Tycoon.
What is Assembly Programming Language?
The year that IEEE was founded.
What is 1963?
The expanded form of the acronym 'MOSFET'.
What is metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor?
A device that allows you to increase voltage with a resistor feedback loop.
What is an op-amp?
The percentage of real to reactive power that represents the efficiency of power delivery.
What is power factor?
The device that can display a voltage waveform on a graph in real-time.
What is an oscilloscope?