There is now enough open courseware at various places to study all of the subjects for getting a degree in electrical engineering (without in fact getting a degree). It’s a good chance for people like me who, as a hobby, are interested in understanding the inner workings of electronic devices and computers and doing some neat projects to learn this subject more painlessly.
For example NPTEL by the IITs in India has its complete ee curriculum up, and is adding video lectures and course materials rapidly.
Berkeley has a number of quality courses available:
And MIT has a few courses with audio/video lectures, and some others without.
Also, for those who know German, there is a course in “techniche informatik” (=computer engineering) at Tuebingen.
I am also intrigued by kits and FPGA boards for doing labs/projects on your own.
There is a free book on DSP that looks interesting.
Open source hardware is a pretty exciting development.
Please comment with more resources if you able able to add to this list.
I will be commenting on these resources in subsequent posts…
