Recent content by wattsAndSquats

The analogy of water flowing through a pipe can be really helpful here. Current can be analogized to rate of water flow at a given point in a loop of the pipe system (the circuit) and a resistor can be analogized to a particularly narrow part of the pipe, like a constriction. Assuming water has...

Thank you Dr. Courtney and Choppy. There is an IEEE school chapter with a robotics team, but my schedule every semester since I started has ran through their meetings, and I'm not going to cut class. I have the same issue with employment fairs sometimes. As far as networking, I have to admit...

Not my scope of knowledge but I'd like to throw this in: I read a book on bubble theory, the theory that the there are a number of universes, surrounded by an event horizon out of which no universe can observe the others. Anyway, the author made a case for the differences in the universes...

Genome by Matt Ridley The tagline says it all: "The Autobiography Of A Species In 23 Chapters" Each chapter is dedicated to exploring one particular gene on the chromosome with the corresponding chapter number (23 chromosomes, 23 chapters) and how that gene has impacted our history...

Two recommendations: If you want to beef up your object oriented programming understanding while gaining familiarity with data structures to collect, store and manipulate data, I'd recommend Java for two reasons: 1. There's a ton of documentation available for reference and self-teaching...

Evening all, I'm blessed to be doing well in school, on time to graduate, with no major setbacks. However, I have a few worries that I could use some sage advice on. I'm currently a junior in EE and CE. My first BS was in Exercise Science with a gpa of 3.0. I currently have a school GPA of 3.8...

Hey! I'm a junior Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering undergrad in Tennessee. Gym enthusiast and amateur chef. No opposing forces there right? I've found myself on PF more than a few times a week over the last few years so I figured I'd come out of the shadows finally.