Helpful on the theory, yes. But it's a really different game once you get out into the workaday world. That's when you really begin to learn the art and practice of engineering -- fresh out of school, you make mistakes and I made my share. Yet I have known good engineers who never got a degree.
But the theory can be useful: I once tackled the effort to design a "glitch-capture" circuit that was better than giant rival HP's. Their circuit used 4 very power-hungry but super-fast ICs -- and the instrument required 32 of those circuits, one per channel. 3 days of cranking equations (boolean logic) and I came up with a faster one that used only 1-1/2 of those very power-hungry but super-fast ICs per channel. Ah, the good old days...
Good morning, everyone. 21 this a.m., and a little cloudy. Maybe it will clear up for Sunbeam Time. I went to bed about 8:30 last night, finished the biography of Rush Limbaugh I was reading, and had lights out before 9:00. The overnight people didn’t make coffee, but Ash and I handled it when we got up.