Prof. KHURRAM AFRIDI:
Welcome to the Fall 2012 offering of 6.002x,
the Circuits and Electronics course of MITx on edX.
Specifically, this course will teach you the tools of circuit
theory, and build your skills in analyzing and designing
electronic circuits.
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand
what goes inside various electronic devices, such as
smartphones and interplanetary missions.
So, whether you're a space enthusiast dreaming of
building a Mars Rover smarter than Curiosity, or a
smartphone that will read your mind, this course is for you.
The skills that you will learn in 6.002x are not only
applicable to the design of electronic circuits, but can
also be used to solve a large variety of engineering
problems in fields as diverse as heat transfer and
biological engineering.
This term, we will enhance the interaction between you and
the course staff.
The TAs will offer office hours that will be posted
ahead of schedule so that when they're available to answer
your questions in real time through the discussion forum.
We also provide opportunities for you to interact directly
with the course instructors.
My name is Khurram Afridi, and I'll be your
instructor for this term.
I'm a visiting associate professor at MIT's Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
My research is on using electronics for energy
processing, a field known as power
electronics, so I love circuits.
I fell in love with circuits when I took a similar course
at Caltech many years ago, and went on the following summer
to design communication circuits for a NASA satellite.
I'm sure by the end of this course, you will fall in love
with circuits, too.
Apart from solving engineering problems, I love to start and
grow new enterprises.
Before coming to MIT, I helped start a technology company and
a school of science and engineering.
Also helping run the Fall 2012 version of 6.002x, our head TA
Richard Zhang and TAs Jorge Martinez, Khalil Dozier, and
Alex Garza-Galindo.
The entire 6.002x team is looking forward to having you
as our students.
While this course is hard, it is also a lot of fun.
If you've taken a physics course in electricity and
magnetism, and have some exposure to differential
equations, you should be able to do well in this course.
This is the second time this course is being offered.
Over 7,000 students successfully completed and
received a certificate for this course in Spring 2012.
6.002x is a fast-paced course, so do not fall behind.
Make sure to start watching the videos as soon as they're
released, and start work on the
assignments as soon as possible.
So do you want to become a circuit designer and start a
new technological revolution?
Or do you want to use the techniques of circuit design
to develop models for engineering, economic, or
biological systems?
Either way this course will help you succeed.
So let's get going so you can help
engineer a bold new world.
Lihat Juga:
1.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/agarwal/ (Prof. Anant Agarwal)
2.
http://stuff.mit.edu/people/afridi/home.html (Prof. KHURRAM AFRIDI)
