31 Dec
2005
31 Dec
'05
3:41 p.m.
It was the text for a digital design class I took
while an
undergraduate EE at UDel. Unfortunately, the class was so poorly run
that very few people ever got to do any designing or playing with
actual circuits. Personally I consider UDel's EE major with the
"Digital option" at the time (I graduated 1986) to be a miserable
failure in teaching people how to actually *build* anything. I still
I am told it's getting ever worse. EE, CS, and similar courses in UK
universities may well involve not building anything. It's all done on
simulators (cue ARD's rant about the misuse of simulators. Note I said
'misuse'. They are undoubtedly useful when used correctly, which is not
as a replacment for building real hardware in an undergraduate course).
-tony