EEVblog 1565 - UNSW Electronics Lab & Makerspace Tour

A tour of one of the electronics teaching labs and the makerspace at arguably the best electronics engineering university in Australia, UNSW. With Associate Professor Torsten Lehmann.

00:00 - A tour of the UNSW electronic lab with Torsten Lehmann
02:57 - Why they chose the R&S RTB2000 oscilloscope
03:49 - Remotely interactive demo boards
04:52 - Does university teach practical skills any more?
08:41 - For the Siglent fanboys
10:50 - Soldering station
12:16 - Practical projects
15:13 - Thesis and learning to play an instrument analogy
16:39 - The 400kV High Voltage Lab
17:22 - Power systems laboratory
18:33 - Power electronics and drives laboratory
19:42 - Maker Space

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[nhand]

What an amazing facility. Like Dave says, I could only dream of a setup like this when I was studying. And absolutely agree that theoretical alone is not enough. It needs to be balanced with the practical. This is the kind of facility that enables students to reach their full potential. Pun intended.

[mschwage]

Once upon a time, I was a young lad in a EE course at the University of Illinois. I was in a lab where we had to figure out the value of an unknown capacitor using some sort of bridge and a signal generator. My lab partner and I couldn’t get it to work. No matter what we did, we got no results. So I grabbed an ohmmeter and measured the resistance of the capacitor. It was 0. We called over the ta (PhD grad student) leading the class. We told him, “look, the experiment didn’t work. We can’t get a value. The capacitor is shorted.” The TA told us that we couldn’t use an ohmmeter in the experiment. I told him we couldn’t do the experiment with a shorted cap. He told me… well, we went back and forth. Finally, he told me he’d talk to the professor. A couple of days later, in the lecture part of the class, the TA told us that the cap was bad.

This sort of practical instruction shown in this video is invaluable.

[tddotnet]

Awesome to see these young guys getting hands on! Good luck to them all! I wish the lab I learned in was half as well equipped as this beauty! Thanks for a great video Dave took me right back to my student days!

[KeritechElectronics]

Cool to see a uni that teaches electronics the right way. Nice labs! I'd love to take a closer look at the HV one :). The makerspace looks mighty cool too, big and spacious, and well equipped too. Seeing that much yellow and blue makes me want to call it the Hakkospace :)

I'd never imagine EE studies without working with actual electronics. But then, I dropped out of mine after half a year out of disappointment and burnout, meh.

[markharwood]

All I can say is that it's changed a lot since I did EE in those labs 35 years ago!

[StuartCGadgetRev]

Wow! Makes me want to go back to Uni. What wonderful facilities.

[Petertronic]

No EEVblog multimeters?!! This was great, excellent facilities there, it took me right back to college days when I did by BTEC National Diploma, back then (about 30 years ago) we just had 20Mhz analog Hameg scopes, simple sig.gens with a big dial on the front (AF only of course), and Thurlby Thandar power supplies. When our lab was moved to a much bigger room I helped design the layout of it. Good times. Back to the present, the old college building has now been demolished for housing, and I heard that our excellent tutor passed away a couple of years ago. Times move fast.

[fmashockie]

Wow I am surprised by how new all their equipment is! When I was in school for my chem degree, the analytical chem equipment (GC, HPLC, MS, etc) were ancient beasts! What a neat course and lab!

[AndrewJones-tjet]

At RMIT Melbourne we use to have PCB manufacturing facilities to create layouts on Intergraph workstations or manually with Bishop Gaphics tapes and targets, produce the photo-tools and expose onto the Riston photoresist film that we coated onto boards. First we would drill the holes and through plate them, then etch double sided PCB's followed by gold card edge plating if I remember correctly. There were innumerable steps and cleanliness/accuracy was king. Was great to go through that process to make our projects.

[drew]

That maker space was awesome. I'm with you Dave, would of loved a space like that in uni.

[milesnapue]

If any students see this, make your end project a four legged BEAM walker. Freeform solder the brains and get 4x 360° servos. It utilizes a neural network and is awesome.

[tocsals]

I haven't been back in my Alma Mater since 15 years, even back then we could use a sort of 'makerspace'. It just wasn't called that back then :) We could do PCBs, weld and cut metal, stuff like that. Had a HAM shack too. I wonder what they are up to nowadays, I know the callsign has been retired which makes me a little sad.

[phyzzip]

Brings back memories of my undergrad. One thing I remember just before I finished in 2014 was the lab manager complaining that it was getting harder to get DIPs of various components for breadboarding. Hope that m6 uni's lab is getting SMD tooling.

[davdbone]

We got up to drunken mischief at uni, once filled a drinks cup up with loose protons and quarks from the matter dispenser, poured them out on the stairs and the professor slipped on them, he landed at the bottom and a Bose-Einstein condensate formed, although that might have been dust from his person.

[KeanM]

Wow, things have changed a bit since I went there.
I actually don't remember doing much in the EE labs, I think I spent more time in the Chemistry labs and on the CS and Maths Unix systems.

[organiccold]

Thank you for this amazing video Dave 🎉 this is amazing stuff

[samh]

That place is chock full of nice equipment. Not necessarily bleeding edge, but pretty awesome for a school budget.

[ecercuit]

It's an amazing Electronics Lab facility. This is everyone wish to have one. It's a big advancement since I last did my Masters 15 years ago at UNSW. I wish I can afford to setup my Electronics Lab or Electronics Workbench when I was studying. Only this time I setup my own Electronics Workbench when I'm already at 50s and have family. Dave, you're in my first YouTube channel if you don't mind.

[BioniChaos]

EEVblog did way more for students than most unis ever will, when adjusting for cost, of course..

[JeepinBoon]

As a fellow electrical diag that broke my leg in June, I can relate to the test lead setup. I hung every test lead on any BNC that could hold it. Was quite a mess but all within reach. You got zero hands and one good foot when you break a leg.