Anyone here an electrical engineer?
I need some help/advice.
What are the major professional groups for EEs? ME's have ASME, what do electricals have? I need to enhance my electronic/electrical skills without going back to college.

 

IEEE.org

~Rob

 

Is that the primary one?

Their website it harder to navigate than ANSI's. Do you have a link to courses that IEEE offer?

 

I can't stand IEEE, but it is the primary one. Not sure if they offer courses. You would have to be a member to take one anyway. I don't belong. Most of the technical stuff I have seen from them is a bunch of foreign (read: Pacific Rim) PhD. students publishing really wacky, very technical stuff with lots of nasty partial differential equations and such. The publications aren't for the casual observer, and they aren't very practical for day to day design of stuff or general theory.

Sorry,
~Rob

 

Try this link

It has lots of links to good tutorials for folks just getting their feet wet (Ohm's law, Kirchoff's law etc)
Here is one of the better links from that page,Click Here it will take you to a chapter index. Suggest starting at Chap. 1 and going from there. Good luck.

~Rob

 

I have a reasonable understanding of electrical theory and electronics. As one professor put it, "You know enough to be dangerous but not kill yourself."
Anyway, I looking for some two day to week long classes that I can take for industrial control panels, certifying equipment to Class1 Div 1 hazardous locations, any calculations that should go along with this.
I realize EE's cover almost as many different subjects as ME's I just want a crash course in a small section of their world.

 

The IEEE and ASEE are probably the most recognized organizations. The IPC is also another good organization. Then you have niche organizations like the AES (Audio Engineers Society) whose ranks contain a lot of EE's.