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I am a TA for a circuits class and students need to come by my office one at a time for a 30 minute design review for their project. The design review is to make sure they are not doing anything stupid.
Student: I don’t know the value for mu*Cox.
Me: Did you look at the design [...]

The class I am TAing had its final today. It was a standard 3 hour long final. A final exam is of appropriate length if the TA can do it in half the allotted time. It took me a good 2 hours to do the exam. I told the professor that it took me 2 [...]

I don’t have any single item to blog about that will make a decent post so I’m lumping them all into one.
1. Here’s another look at the wedge break. Although I am a bit pissed that the market gapped down at the open, I have to be glad that I caught the wedge break.

The break [...]

I have quite a few Chinese speaking friends who haven’t been in the US for a long time. When they find out that I can speak Chinese they are usually quite surprised. I can list many examples but I will only blog about what happened today.
Today I was in the computer cluster working on my [...]

I have a project checkpoint due on Monday. My project partner and I are not done yet, but I am running off to Washington DC for the weekend and I am leaving him with the work.
It’s pretty much his business at this point. I don’t care about my grade. If he wants to care about [...]

I spent 12 hours in the undergraduate computer cluster with my project partner today. Man, I should have just let him do all the work.
However, I am quite thankful that he asked me to be his project partner, otherwise it would have been game over for me.
Because it took all day, and because I didn’t [...]

I am taking a digital circuits class right now. It is such an easy class and I am taking it for my course requirements.
The competition in the class is very lopsided in the sense that I am competing against a bunch of first year grad students. I say it is lopsided because it is very [...]

I am a TA for an analog circuits class. Another TA has been leading both recitation sections and I am going to take over this Friday because that TA is being a lamo and needs to prepare for his qualifying examination.
It turns out that I’ll be covering MOS I/V characteristics. I can imagine the following [...]

A few days ago I was grading homework and I was pretty annoyed by students goofing up units and having their answers be many orders of magnitude off. One student’s homework was very interesting…
1. At the bottom of the page, he as the answer to part of the problem and the units are wrong. I [...]

I just stumbled across a paper in IEEE Transactions on Education titled, “Electrical engineering for the liberal arts: radio and its history.” Link is here. I have uploaded the paper to my server and you can find the paper here. The abstract is reproduced below.
A course for liberal arts students on the engineering and physics [...]