Reminiscing my electrical engg education.
Silicon valley was not built by computer boffins. It was built by electrical engineers. Oh yeah! William Shockley and Fredrick Terman. As a Prof at the Stanford, Terman was instrumental in creation of the Silicon Valley in 1951.
Silicon valley was not built by computer boffins. It was built by electrical engineers. Oh yeah! William Shockley and Fredrick Terman. As a Prof at the Stanford, Terman was instrumental in creation of the Silicon Valley in 1951.
Fredrick Emmons Terman who wrote the wonderful book, "Electronic and Radio Engineering".
Mostly focused on the vacuum tube technology. But parts of it, such as the Class C amplifiers stuff was pretty good.
Mostly focused on the vacuum tube technology. But parts of it, such as the Class C amplifiers stuff was pretty good.
Of course, if you have enough money to plonk, you would buy Bose speakers and earphones. Bose in his earlier days as a Prof along with Stevens had written a well referred textbook. "Introductory Network Theory".
Things would have been different had Merill Skolnik had he decided to join the computer group at MIT Lincoln Lab in 1955. Fortunately he joined the radar book, and went on to write the classic "Introduction to Radar Systems" in 1962. BTW, this legend is 92 years old now.
You are not an electronics engineer if you have not read "Integrated Electronics", Millman and Halkias. Wonder if this is still the standard textbook now.
Maxwell's equations and the mathematics never looked more sexier than what was written in the classic "Electromagnetic Theory and Radiating Systems" by Jordan and Balmain. I have been able to rattle off trivia about antennas, frequencies from I learnt from this fantastic book.
Another book, which I could actually enjoy reading as a microwave engineer long ago was the wonderful "Microwave Devices and Circuits" by Liao. Microwave engineering was pure magic.
All this was before the ubiquitous invasion of "software" (to be read as silly enterprise applications which do not require any specific skill). Many a good engineer became a martyr in the IT boom in the mid 1990s.
