I. ON BEING AN ENGINEER.
1. Modeling Processes.
2. Engineering Design: Why? What? How?
3. Engineering Ethics.
4. Meaningless Precision: 22.6 Grams of Fat Per Serving.
5. About Those Other Fields of Engineering.
6. Logarithmic Unit for a Person's Pay: The Salarybel.
7. How Many Words Is A Picture Really Worth?
8. Favorite Programs.
9. Some Really Interesting Technical and Semi-Technical Books.
10. Advice to Freshmen.
11. On Communicating.
12. Templates for Technical Writing.
13. Internet.
14. Optical Communications.
15. A Large Engineering Project: The InfoPad.
16. Brief Technical Articles.
17. Entrepreneurship: It's Your Business.
18. Unsolved Problems, Unanswered Questions.
19. Homework I.
II. ELECTRONICS, WITH WATER MODELS.
20. Direct Current Fundamentals.
21. Alternating Currents and Components.
22. Semiconductors: Minding Their Ps and Ns.
23. Device Fabrication via Photolithography.
24. The Load Line And Your Car Battery.
25. What Can You Do with These Components?
26. Power for the People.
27. Digital Logic Devices.
28. Computer Architecture.
29. Waveforms and Spectra.
30. Modeling Electrical Devices: The Transfer Function.
31. Electronics Terminology Brought to You by the Good Guys!
32. Homework II.
III. APPENDICES.
A. Instructional Objectives.
B. Those Student Questions Answered.
C. Grading on the Curve.
D. It's Greek to Me.
E. Glossary.
Significant Contributions to the Field.
Alexander Graham Bell's Photophone.
Indexes.