The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#620 – Engineering Education with Dr Don Wilcher

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Welcome, Dr Don Wilcher! He joins us right as he’s about to release a new book, M5 Stack Electronic Blueprints

  • He worked at Willow Run early in his career (facility now closed)
  • Henry Ford Community College
  • Larry Sears
  • Having joy in the courses
  • The Knack
  • John Davis joined on a previous episode to talk about Industrial machines
  • What is a PLC?
  • Relay ladder logic
  • Industrial Computer vs Controller
  • Scan loop on a PLC
  • XIC / XIO
  • A Distributed Control System (DCS) networks many controllers together
  • Don taught a blueprint reading class
  • Chris asked about why connectors are drawn the way they are
  • Later in his career, Don moved from the industrial space to design in cars
  • Wiring harness
  • Body controller module
  • CAFE laws – California Air Fuel Economy
  • 68hc11
  • Wetting current for switches
  • CAN
  • Cigarette lighters in cars
  • Don was working on the (Jeep) Grand Cherokee
  • Decoding CAN with a scope
  • Packard electric connectors
  • Cars have a “shower curtain” for water in the door
  • Don got his PhD and switched to education
  • He taugh courses like
    • Electric Circuits 1 / 2
    • Intro to robotics
    • Automated system and diagnosis
    • Electronics Industrial Maintenance
    • Instructors putting bugs into the system to test students
    • PLCs still reign supreme
    • Arduino recently released the Opta, which is targeted at the industrial market
    • Don writes for Control.com
    • OpenPLC is software that can run on a variety of accessible platforms (like ESP32/Arduino/etc)
    • Industrial I/O
    • OpenPLC based on IEC spec (61131-3)
    • Different programming styles of programming
    • Blackhat (movie) with Chris Hemsworth
    • Stuxnet worm
    • He wrote and article about using OpenPLC with Arduino
    • Dr Don has a new book that was just released! The M5 stack book
    • Continuing Education Courses
    • IEEE certificate
    • Dr Don will be speaking at the Embedded Online conference coming up in April
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