On 10/21/07, Vitaliy wrote: > >>From which universities? I think there are better universities out there. > > Just a local private technical university (DeVry). I see. But I think Professor Chen's C18 bsed PIC course is pretty good. http://faculty.tp.devry.edu/~schen/ He s "schen" in Microchip Forum. > > I tend to think the text books used in the US universities are pretty > > difficult. I was sitting in a undergraduate digital control engineering > > course in a private university and I still needed to spend some efforts > > on it to get an "A". > > Yes, that is how I remember it too. Things have radically changed in recent > years. That was not so long ago. I attended RPI (http://www.rpi.edu) for a semester in Fall 2003. Even though I did not like Troy and my supervisor and chose to quit my study, I think RPI is an excellent university and the undergraduate program is really good. > > But I would not be too much surprised if the students are from local > > public state universities. As a Teaching Assistant for a senior > > engineering course in a top 50 US University (public), I found it hard > > to believe that some of the 4th year EE students lack the very > > very basic maths and engineering skills. > > :( In the lab, there are some dual 25V power supplies. The first thing I asked them to do is to connect the power supply to get 30V. Half of the students could not get it done. I was a good TA so after the course, they all knew how to do that and got trained in soldering. With proper training, I think they were not that bad after all. That being said, I think the graduate program in US universities (top 100) are all world class. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist