Chapter 0 Your PSU Instructor and You ECE 171 Digital Circuits Chapter 0 Your PSU Instructor and You Herbert G. Mayer, PSU Status 4/19/2016 For use at CCUT Spring 2016

Who is Your PSU Instructor? I have not yet met some of you in my past CCUT terms Instructor is a German immigrant to the USA, who has worked in the US computer industry and academia Worked at CCUT in 2014 and 2015, teaching CS + EE Immigrated to the US, due to marriage with US citizen in Berlin; yes she is lovely  Became naturalized US citizen in 1995 MS EECS (electrical engineering and computer science) UCSD 1983; beautiful beach & campus! PhD CS (informatik) TU Berlin 1995; awesome city, now united! Professional focus at Intel: compiler optimization, alias analysis, programming languages, VLIW

Who is Your Instructor? PhD Thesis on automatic generation of MP-object code via alias analysis Retired from Intel Corp. in 2011 after 24 years Managed compiler development for systolic array architecture 1980s Managed Intel CPU tuning lab & CPU validation labs for new Intel micro processors Teaching computer science since 1983 at SDSU San Diego, and since 1987 also CS at PSU Teaching experience 2004 in Shanghai, at IIIST Loved China and teaching in China so much that I volunteered to participate in CCUT + PSU cooperation for CS and ECE Back at CCUT this academic year 2015-2016 for ECE

Goals of ECE 171 Improve CCUT students’ command of English in preparation for your possible studies in the US Lightly acquaint CCUT students with the American culture, to reduce culture-shock in case of US studies (Portland, Oakland) Review some math, physics to create strong basis for ECE 171 Enhance understanding of digital circuits by focusing on logic functions, hazards, Karnaugh Maps, HDLs, MUXes, Adders, FlipFlops, etc.

Conventions for ECE 171 At start of class, we discuss key English language terms used in the near future: vocabulary intro Being a non-native English speaker myself, I experienced the hard way, how important language is for communication Vocabulary intro limited to a few minutes You should ask question in class, every time an idea is not understood; this way you are always “in synch” with the instructor This may not be a typical custom in Chinese academia, but will help you ease into typical life at an American university A few of you may study at a US university

Overall CCUT Context My portion of ECE 171 is only a small part of your 16-week long semester at CCUT Hence this portion is only one part for your final grade, to be assigned by your Chinese teacher My ECE 171 portion will be part of your final grade, but detail and weight is decided by your Chinese professor Hopefully, you learn a lot and enjoy my personal delivery method, refined by me in a quarter century of teaching

Who are You? What is “disruptive technology”? What does receive some instruction in English? Will some of you study in a foreign county? If not, will it help you, to master a foreign language? Will this make studying harder? Are you willing and able to speak about it?

Who are You? Share briefly, though I have some of you last year at CCUT About 3-5 students volunteer to articulate in class, explaining: Your name, Chinese and English, if you have Your field of study and current progress Why do you take ECE 171? What is your expectation of this class? What is your minimal goal for this class? Which is your ideal learning goal? Have you worked in the computer industry? Which engineering topics are you interested in? Anything else relevant to this course