My name is Christopher, I started GrittyEngineer.com a few years after graduating from Brigham Young University with my master’s degree in Electrical and Computer engineering. I have found that most of the material out there for electrical engineering is difficult to read and overly complicated. I was frustrated when in college I couldn’t understand the textbook or follow what my professors were trying to teach. Day after day, I spent hours rereading the textbook, going to office hours to get additional help, and working with friends to make sense of the material. It wasn’t until I entered grad school that I felt things begin to click, all thanks to my advisor, Dr. Rice. He had the ability to take the most complicated material, break it down to its simplest form and teach it to his students. I learned electrical engineering didn’t have to be overly complicated, though admittedly there is still a lot of math involved.
Since graduating, I have continued to learn advanced digital signal processing techniques on my own. The complexity of the material hasn’t changed but my approach to learning it has. Like Dr. Rice taught me, I try to simplify the material, breaking it down into its fundamentals. The tutorials and posts that I list on this website are an attempt to share my understanding with fellow engineers in a simple, straightforward way. Most derivations are fully written out, instead of saying something condescending like, “It is left to the reader as an exercise to figure out this derivation.” If I already knew how to do it, I wouldn’t be reading the material! If any of the posts have language like that, point it out in a comment and I’ll change it.
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