This is a site dedicated to explaining engineering topics in a simple way.  Added topics so far include circuits, materials science, and robotics (all in progress).  The site also covers how to be successful in your academic career – especially your first year of engineering, which can be very difficult.

About this Site

Looking around the web can be overwhelming. You’ll go on a website that offers courses, or look at iTunes U, or MIT open courseware, and can easily start to feel overwhelmed. The massive amount of information out there is staggering, from general courses about computer programming to the graduate level courses about robot dynamics. And it’s not only the volume, it’s also that there are so many different ways to learn. There are video lectures, interactive courses, podcasts, websites, blogs, textbooks, course notes, slides….you can easily want to shut everything out after initially feeling excited about learning something new.  This site intends to remove some of that noise by exploring common engineering topics in a simple way.  You’ve come here to learn a bit more about engineering concepts. There’s no courses to sign up for, no login info, no lectures to follow, no certificates to get, no one talking to you.  Just engineering.

This site aims to offer a broad overview of many common first year engineer subjects, and will also explore some upper-year courses such as robotics.  This site won’t go into detail about these concepts – it’s intended to be read more casually than that.  Wikipedia or textbooks are better for going into detail.  But too often engineers will graduate having successfully completed courses with difficult, complex math – but they don’t really know what the courses and concepts actually mean.

Who is this site for?  Anyone looking to learn about engineering and some of the core concepts that are introduced to engineering students, not just in first year, but throughout the entire four years.  The website aims to eliminate all the complicated math that overwhelm and obfuscate the underlying core concepts, which can generally be explained in a conversational way.  This website aims to be that conversation by providing elegant, simple explanations to seemingly complicated topics, so that engineers beginning their first year understand the ideas first and foremost.  It is also for engineers, having already completed their academic careers, looking to fill in gaps in their knowledge that they missed while busy trying to pass exams.  It is for anyone else looking to learn what an engineer learns – and maybe more in some respects.  Think of it as a little big guide to engineering.