Producing course materials for electrical engineering instruction using Corel Draw 3.0

Gives readers a start in creating their own course materials using an inexpensive and easily used software. By using a suitable graphics creation program, drawings can be easily integrated into word processing text. The drawings integrated into the text can be used in the form of tests, instructional aids, overhead projections, coursework assignments and tutorials. By properly utilizing these various coursewares, instructional quality can be improved. This paper gives readers the basic instruction needed to get started in creating their own courseware using Corel Draw 3.0. This exercise is in a step-by-step form. It is intended to be suitable both as an instructional aid for the learner to be guided through by the authors and as a stand-alone tutorial. After completion of the presented exercise, the user will have created a circuit diagram and exported it to a word-processing software package. Users should gain sufficient knowledge through this exercise to begin drawing schematics on their own and start to create usable electrical engineering courseware.