{"id":112,"date":"2020-02-20T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2020-02-20T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T15:19:59","slug":"engineering-science-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/engineering-science-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Science Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>N5 Engineering Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are three distinct topics\/unit areas: Electronics and Control, Structures&amp; Mechanisms and Engineering Contexts &amp; Challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Electronics &amp; Control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electronic systems, system diagrams, sub-system diagrams, control diagrams, energy audit,\u00a0 energy calculations, power, efficiency,\u00a0 Electronic symbols, quantities, symbols, units, decimal prefixes, formula relationships (Ep =mgh), flowcharts, programming (Arduino C), Arduino microcontrollers, bipolar transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors, motors, Arduino drivers(L289N), driverless vehicles, electric vehicles, strain gauges, variable resistors, light dependent resistors, thermistors, relays, switches, push-pull drivers, darlington pairs, integrated chips and electronic engineering.<\/p>\n<p>At higher level the N5 knowledge and understanding above will be used in more complex questions but will also include: operational amplifiers (inverting, non-inverting, summing, comparator, difference and voltage follower) and MOSFET&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The software used will include: YENKA, TINKERCAD and Beam GURU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N5 Engineering Science There are three distinct topics\/unit areas: Electronics and Control, Structures&amp; Mechanisms and Engineering Contexts &amp; Challenges. Electronics &amp; Control Electronic systems, system diagrams, sub-system diagrams, control diagrams, energy audit,\u00a0 energy calculations, power, efficiency,\u00a0 Electronic symbols, quantities, symbols, units, decimal prefixes, formula relationships (Ep =mgh), flowcharts, programming (Arduino C), Arduino microcontrollers, bipolar transistors, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/engineering-science-course\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Engineering Science Course&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3769,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahscdt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}