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MIT Introductory EE Goes Hands-On
pioneer writes "MIT is looking to replace its introductory core EE (electrical engineering) curriculum with more hands-on classes. MIT Professors Abelson and Sussman discuss the new class, which replaces equations with actual circuit building, tours of electrical plants, and classes taught by famous professors."
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PS: sciocchi dell'alberino del pugno
MIT's insurance carrier just raised thier liability rates...
"If, therefore, any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone."
~Epictetus
Why don't you just keep on rubbing in how cool the classes that I'll never get to take are?
"MIT Professors Abelson and Sussman discuss the new class, which replaces equations with actual circuit building, tours of electrical plants, and classes taught by famous professors.""
So basically it's a IvyTech, or an ITT.
Two words :
WEIRD SCIENCE
Although I bet the hot chick gets replaced by a "fully functional", linux powered android.
the new class, which replaces equations with actual circuit building
: "Class, now calculate the impedance of that condenser, connected to an AC generator, generating 110 volts with a frequency 60Hz (generator considered perfect, without internal resistance). Also, please note on the diagram that the condenser is polarized : can you explain why that circuit isn't correct ?"
: zzzZZZ *BANG* Hey shit what's that goddawful smell ?!
Math version of the class
Hand-on version of the class
Guess which class will remember that particular lesson best ? go MIT !
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
How does anyone of the caliber required for MIT even get this far without having done this before?
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In other news, freshman biology students at Cal Tech will actually use microscopes this year, introductory computer science classes at Berkeley will involve computers, and students will be given chemicals to do their chemistry lab work this fall at Harvey Mudd. Furthermore, the English department at Yale is considering making it a requirement to read a book before earning the undergraduate degree.
Ok, most students graduate at the age of 24, and engineering is generally a five year study (not sure about MIT, but it is elsewhere).
1922 - 24 = 1898
2003 - 1898 = 105
This guy is old!
The next time Jack's son's friend was over to play, Jack son lured him to try the ouchy-outlet. This time there was no 9V battery behind it, but 2,300 watts of hair-curling, finger-burning, nuclear-produced utility power behind it.
Jack's son's friend was electrocuted and died. Jack was forced to admit under intense questioning that he had rigged up the "safe" shock his son recieved and assigned sole liability for the son's friend's death.
A civil judgement beyond the homeowner's insurance policy coverage forced Jack's family to sell the house and posessions to pay the judgement.
Homeless and destitute, Jack was forced to pimp his wife on the street. 38 and a little saggy from childbearing, she was forced to start getting it up the ass to make decent money.
Thereafter, Jack had a healthy fear of Skinnerian Conditioning.
Gee, its not like MIT physics didn't have an experimental version (8.01x, 8.02x) of its classes ten years ago.
get with the program. its just like course 6 to be deriving all their cool stuff from physics anyway, when they are not stealing course ideas from mechanical engineering, that is.
And 6.001 is a just a dumb witgenstein reference to recursion anyway...
Your sig:
Cutie Pi 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841972....
If you are going to show Pi with "..." to indicate that it keeps going, the last digit should be a one, not a two. The two you are showing is because the version you have is rounded at the 40th decimal place. The actual 40th place is a one and the 41st is a six (...41971693993...).
Want to know something really scary? I did that from memory.
"lots of hands on experience in your parents' garage before you discovered girls."
Sorry, I was reading Playboy when I was four. Also Hustler, Penthouse, Chic, Oui, Marie, and a few lesser-known mags. And by the age of six, I was playing doctor with the neighborgirl. I certainly never thought of using a soldering iron then though, those things can burn you.
I mean, they're the only EEs with REAL ULTIMATE POWER!