Broome Community CollegeBinghamton, New York

Electrical Engineering Technology

Welcome Back! We have some really exciting projects in the works. Stay tuned for details…

Electrical Engineering Technology

What do you want to work on?

Can you use this equipment?

• Variable Power Supply

• Breadboard

• Voltmeter

• Ammeter

• Resistance Decade Box

Entrepreneurship Cooperative Project

• As part of this program, the Electrical students will be involved in the design and manufacture of printed circuit boards utilizing high intensity LED’s.

• These circuit boards will be part of custom billet aluminum tail light housings that will that are being built by Eckcraft metal arts in Binghamton, New York. These tail lights will be used on custom one of a kind motorcycles.

• The object of the technical entrepreneurship program is to expose students to fundamental entrepreneurship skills and principles.

Eckcraft Products

Eckcraft Metal Arts

Made locally in Binghamton, NY

CUSTOM CHOPPERS???

DALE EARNHARDT

The first project was for a tail light honoring NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.

The First Prototype

This tail light had to be in the shape of the number 3. We needed to determinehow to arrange the LED’s to fill the available space.We started with a piece of perf board to get an idea of the necessary layout.

Printed Circuit Board Layout

To place the LED’s exactly where we wanted them to be, we used AutoCAD to lay out the printed circuit board.

How do you make a circuit board in the shape of a 3?

VERY CAREFULLY!

That’s more like it…

Lots of hand filing to get it right.

Testing the first production circuit board

Can you say BRIGHT?

The Earnhardt Bike

The Dale Earnhardt commemorative motorcycle was unveiled in December in Pomona, California. It will be on display at the 2005 Daytona 500. This bike will be touring the country and the owner has promised to bring it to Binghamton if it is in the area.

The Finished Product

SPEED Channel Project

• The Speed Channel will be filming a series of shows on building a custom motorcycle.

• This series will be aired on the 2 Wheel Tuesday show.

• The EET Department at BCC built the circuitry for the tail light for this project.

SPEED CHANNEL

Two-Wheel Tuesday

AUTOCAD Design

Printed Circuit Board

The SPEED Channel Tail Light

Watch for it on the SPEED Channel.

PRETTY COOL, ISN’T IT?

•You’d better get on board before we leave without you!

•Want to come along for the ride?

•Guess who else needs some custom built circuit boards?

Orange County

Choppers

F-22 RAPTOR Theme Bike

United States Air Force

The Design Concept

Design and Fabrication

As part of the Technical Entrepreneurship Program, in the Spring 2005 semester the students in EET 230, the design and fabrication course, will design circuit boards for tail lights that Eckcraft is building for Orange County Choppers. One of these lights will be used on an F22 Raptor theme bike that OCC is building for the United States Air Force. The creation of this bike will be featured on episodes of American Chopper on The Discovery Channel.

If you screw up, you’re going to have to answer to these guys!