[VIDEOS] PIC & embedded systems lectures - VERY good! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: glossywhite
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2011, 07:02:19 pm
content: This is a channel run by the "Indian institute of technology, Delhi". They provide literallythousandsof great videos on almost every computing/electronic subject you can think of. Here is a sample (with grooooovy music!):

author: Zad
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2011, 07:57:20 pm
content: At least I can understand this guy. I don't know if it is this university or another, but the electronics lectures are given by a man and a (quite elderly) woman whose accents are almost impossible to understand, even to someone like me. who lives near Bradford and is used to decoding pretty broad Indian. The lecture does lack clarity and structure a wee bit though.

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2011, 11:18:51 pm
content: Nothing can beat the MIT OCWhttp://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/

author: glossywhite
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 25, 2011, 11:44:32 pm
content: Quote from: Time on January 25, 2011, 11:18:51 pmNothing?I beg to differ. I found it highly refreshing to hear somethingotherthan an American accent (you'd think they invented the planet itself, the way they chatter on sometimes). I get sick of Americans being painted to be at the centre of ALL technology; they clearly aren't. It's good to be reminded that there aremanyamazing minds in the world - we westernersdon'tknow it all.

author: orbiter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2011, 12:23:27 am
content: Thanks glossy, I'll put those in my favs.Here's the link for anybody else wanting them...http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses.php?branch=Electrical

author: Time
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2011, 02:15:49 am
content: Quote from: glossywhite on January 25, 2011, 11:44:32 pmlol, what? I guess you might have that impression if your education extends to your local university and youtube videos. Just because in your country only your countrymen attend your university and teach at your university doesn't mean its like that everywhere else. Its practically the opposite here. That accent in those videos is the norm for me. If I heard a native english speaking lecture like that it would be something new. Statistically, I guess its more like America is the center of most technology, not Americans. Thats not arrogance, thats a fact - and its on a clear steady decline. There are a lot of factors involved with this, education being one of the biggest.One thing that is unique to American universities is that there are very little natural born US citizens who attend. I wasn't trying to say American universities were better by posting a lecture resource. I am not saying other countries can't produce capable engineers.Have you ever attended a tier 1 American university? If one thing is for sure there are are little to no actual Americans involved with higher education in America. I had maybe 1 natural born American for a professor in grad school. In most of my upper level courses I was in the far minority. Meaning 1-2 Americans in a class of 30 for typical courses. I would say more than 70% of the gradschool was indian. In my physics courses there were more Americans but we were still in the minority. All my plasma physics and electromagnetics professors were German and Swedish. The kids I worked on a good amount of my graduate work with were danish and mexican. This was all at a Texas university too. Where someone might expect there to be less foreign presence. 70% of PHD candidates and PHD graduates in the US are foreign and leave the country when they graduate.Its kind of well known fact that very little Americans are involved with science and engineering at a higher level here and the typical english speaking accents are rare in our higher education environment.

author: Zad
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 26, 2011, 02:28:43 pm
content: Some of the best MIT courses are run by Walter Lewin anyway, and he definitely doesn't have an American Accent. Tier 1 it may be, but Prof Anant Agarwal's Circuits and Electronics lectures are awful in comparison to the ones I took. It isn't an accent issue, just a lack of presentation skills. I think if I had paid MIT level fees for that, I wouldn't be a happy bunny.