After 3 years of studying EE...

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: esun
I don't think anyone dreaded our signals classes in general. Sure, some were hard conceptually (digital communications, stochastic processes), but not 100 hour project hard like some of our digital design courses.

big projects were my favourite thing in college, I loved those classes .

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: BrownTown

Originally posted by: esun
I don't think anyone dreaded our signals classes in general. Sure, some were hard conceptually (digital communications, stochastic processes), but not 100 hour project hard like some of our digital design courses.

big projects were my favourite thing in college, I loved those classes .

I managed to get through my big project classes in my undergrad without staying up all night with some good planning. On the other hand during my graduate coursework, the big project classes were the most insane projects I have ever seen and it seemed that no matter how early you started working, you'd always been staying up 24hrs before the last due date only to have the Professor back off on some requirements in the last minute.

 

[moddestmike]

I feel where you're coming from. I decided to studied EE after finishing my first degree in CIS. Started working full-time/schooling part-time and had to take homework to work with me as well as complete it at home. Cal 3 and Diff are killing me this semester. It will be much clear when I'm able to use this in an application form. Right now its organized gibberish to me.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: TecHNooB

Originally posted by: BrownTown
I guess it matters whether you AP out of first year math, I got to it second semester freshmen year, but didn't use it for EE related stuff until I took linear systems in first semester freshmen year. Fourier series is one of the few things you learn in math that is actually USEFUL to understanding electrical engineering. It really is quite simple concept though, don't let the math fool you, just concentrate on what it means physically and the implications to real life. The discrete versions are also important for even the most basic digital signal processing.

EDIT: never considered it soemthing anyone dreaded. People dreaded the electromagnetics course (because its nothing but 3D vector calculus and hard to visualize) far more than Fourier series.

I'm dreading that one too

*whine* Why don't more people enjoy electromagnetics?

i loved E&M
i hated series'

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: TecHNooB

Originally posted by: BrownTown
I guess it matters whether you AP out of first year math, I got to it second semester freshmen year, but didn't use it for EE related stuff until I took linear systems in first semester freshmen year. Fourier series is one of the few things you learn in math that is actually USEFUL to understanding electrical engineering. It really is quite simple concept though, don't let the math fool you, just concentrate on what it means physically and the implications to real life. The discrete versions are also important for even the most basic digital signal processing.

EDIT: never considered it soemthing anyone dreaded. People dreaded the electromagnetics course (because its nothing but 3D vector calculus and hard to visualize) far more than Fourier series.

I'm dreading that one too

*whine* Why don't more people enjoy electromagnetics?

i loved E&M
i hated series'

Quick! Ramble off the four Maxwell equations in either integral or differential form. (for some strange reason I find the integral form more intuitive)

 

[Born2bwire]

\nabla\cdot \Bv &= 0
\nabla\cdot \Dv &= \rho
\nabla\cross \Hv &= \frac{\partial \Dv}{\partial t} + \Jv

You can always get the fourth equation from the other three. Not sure about the constants in the third equation. I just typed up a bunch of notes that uses CGS units for some reason and I'm used to MKS so I'm all confused, at least more than usual.

\Dv, \Hv, \Bv, and \Jv is shorthand for the vector form of the first letter.

EDIT: Should be nabla not nambla.... uhmmm no comment on that one...

 

[Ticky]

At least fourier transforms are better than convolution...

LSI theory, how I hate you.

/Optics major here
//Lenses be linear systems
///Yeargble!

 

[Jabbernyx]

Wait till you start on Fourier optics. Goodman FTW!

 

[Martimus]

I never truly got Fourier Transforms. LaPlace Transforms are simple and straight forward, but Fourier Transforms are a pure mess. I was just lucky to pass that class along with my image processing class and signal processing classes that used it.

I am glad that I don't do much signal processing work, because I have a hard time with Fourier transforms even today.

 

[theawddone]

Heh, I am taking the discrete version of the class you are probably taking right now, but I am a computer engineer... I had the choice of taking this, algorithms (but required another stats class that I didn't want to take), another chem class, or statics. I can take digital signal processing after this as a technical elective, which I hear is a lot more applied so I am looking forward to it. Right now I am just having trouble trying to determine how all of this math materializes...wtf component represents a Z^-1, etc...