Electrical Engineering 141 - Lecture 1

[dejan070five]

Regards for Berkeley and MIT :))

[krayzai174]

thank god for the advance of open education

[iLOVENATURE2011]

electrical engineering is such an interesting course....

[solidysnake1]

so engineering is like solving puzzles for a living

[ImUrtastyflava]

Wish if i could join this university <3

[UniverseOffspring]

I would love to learn this and mathematics, but when I learn something- I forget it. I can go through a book and understand it all, but then forget what I learned. I only learn for a while, it's difficult for it to stick, and for me to be able to implement it. Any advice?

[gigaguy77]

@One of the only ways I can think of to solve this problem is to just find a way to memorize it, or consistently study the same topic. Thats what reviews are for. You might as well take the course and write down notes for yourself to help you remember a few things from what you learned in the course. The reason most people remember these things is because they apply the things they have learned in their everyday life. Thats what will happen to you when you get a job.

[iLOVENATURE2011]

with a professor this intelligent and pleasant looking, i think learning electrical engineering would be much easier...=)

[jamesdrummerman]

Amount about computers.

[jamesdrummerman]

I don't know if I want to be an ee or an me. I am in robotics, good at math, knows an ok am

[solidysnake1]

@jamesdrummerman you probably going to fail

[thexzibits1]

1 DISLIKE DID NOT GRADUATED

[skating1611]

@thexzibits1 "did not graduated" Oh really, you should try a little harder next time...

[Esoteric0714]

What are the job opportunities in this area? 

[tnguyen318]

I didn't know there could be Engineering in Electricity.

[taltor727]

The most important to EE is trigonometry, infinite series from Calculus 2, Vectors and Vector Fields from Calculus 3, and Differential Equations. Its not so bad, just takes time and there are plenty of online lectures on such topics freely available.

[TheVKfan1]

@taltor727 Unless you're like me. And you're a herpin' and a derpin' all about trying to find out what you're really good at. So far, nothin.

[xXxWat2K7sonxXx]

Is digital integrated circuits actually the intro to electrical engineering as in first topic?

[sk8pn]

well ill be going to classes in a couple of years

[SkatePunk7]

I am still thinking about what type of engineering i want to go into. EE has been one option ive been looking at but idk what any of its like

[sk8pn]

@SkatePunk7 i was inspired to be a electrical engineer because of nikola tesla its amazing what is still possible and not yet discovered.good luck though

[warriorfreak]

double E > all other engineering. Loved the lecture!

[shadygrove014]

i really really want to get into special effects do u need to take electrical engineering?

[slovakmath]

@shadygrove014 the two are not even related

[ahmednoe]

How good do you  have to be in math to be an enigneer? i really want to be an EE but im good in physic but not math, does that help?

[kunjaan]

@ahmednoe Like the professor said, analysis is one part of the process. Designing involves more than that. Don't be discouraged if you are weak in maths, you will pick it on the way. I was pretty weak in maths when I started too. But I realized that not all people learn in the same way. If you want to learn EE, go for it.

[ahmednoe]

@kunjaan Thank you very much, its very helpful and im starting to rethink about it.

[masonkiller666]

@ahmednoe I'm the exact same way I'm worried :\

[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

An ALU parallel input logic gate would be used like this, for the equals, greater than, and less than flag and all of the logic gates. Any network of gates can be replaced with the signs as a decoder. The Classic ALU 8085 based, would still be required for orders of operations and math. If you have a list of conditions to check, you then use one memory location for the logical condition, then mask unused inputs with ones or zeros pending on which gate.

[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

@FlavoredCoffeeGuy The cool part is that the computer can read it, boolean algebra applies to reducing the number instructions to a minimum.

[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

Did you know that if that ALU in a standard CPU included parallel input logic gates, If statements could be made extinct.

[bgreeson]

What is the prerequisite knowledge required for this course?

[andygavin]

There's plenty of evidence that ENIAC was not the first electrical computer. It is only the first electrical computer if narrow the definition of computer. If you do this then the differential machine is not a computer.

[TheBatchGuy]

EE may seem intimidating, but if you're there every class and you really want to know the material... It's simple.

[standevouz]

one question

is an EE cs is based on java language ?

[Bron23345]

i wann be an electrical engineer, i start college later this year and im scared shitless

[James1toknow]

Don't be, it's just information take it easy just take alot of notes,,,, LOL

[isssssssce]

Absolutely fantastic. Its exiting to see professors like this! and faculties are finally cluing into the fact that the masses worldwide want to see these lectures.

[UniverseOffspring]

@samgee2007 What the hell is that? Is that some sort of terrorist manuscript or something?

[mamdk]

I can't seem to find any better word than: Awesome...

Looking forward to the next lecture...

[felare]

Nice to get to actually see Jan Rabaey. I got his book "Digital integrated circuits, a design perspective" way back from 1998 or something like that. A few years later I ended up in a multi-processor DSP ASIC, and the first version of the chip worked and got into production.