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Blogroll

• MITERS
  • Daniel Gonzalez
  • Ben Katz
  • Dane Kouttron
• 新车间 (XinCheJian)
  • Nelson
  • Changbai
  • Jiji
  • Robin
  • Mitch Altman: inventor of TV-B-Gone®, cofounder of Noisebridge
• Inspiration
  • Tim Urban: Wait But Why

YouTube Channels

• Engineering Hacks
  • AppliedScience
  • BenNBuilds: former SpaceX engineer
  • Mark Rober: former NASA engineer, squirrel maze
  • SuperfastMatt: former Tesla engineer converting 1950s Jaguar to electric
  • BPS.space: flight controllers, circuit boards for rockets, landing a model rocket
  • Adam Savage’s Tested: more mythbusting
  • Simone Giertz: queen of shitty robots and truckla
  • Stuff made here: former Formlabs engineer
  • Real Engineering, civil and aviation
  • Rich Rebuilds: reviving teslas
  • VSauce
  • Household Hacker
  • Peter Sripol
• Engineering News & Reviews
  • Veritasium
  • SmarterEveryDay
  • Vox: like a discovery channel on youtube
  • Anastasia In Tech
  • Domain of Science: broad overviews of entire scientific fields
  • Practical Engineering
  • Technology Connections
• Math
  • 3 Blue 1 Brown
  • Numberphile
  • Vihart: og math youtuber
  • George Hart: make math objects irl
• Controls
  • Steve Brunton: control bootcamp, intro data science, Fourier Analysis
  • Brian Douglas: control lectures, bode plots, root locus
• Physics
  • MinutePhysics
  • Two minute papers: what a time to be alive!
  • Physics Girl
  • Sabine Hossenfelder
  • PBS Space Time
  • Kurzgesagt
• Electrical
  • Ben Eater: world’s worst graphics card, how VGA ports work
  • Electroboom: teaching EE through masochism
  • GreatScott: electronics, tesla coil, nixie tube clock
• Computers
  • NetworkChuck: all things Linux, NAS, email server, etc.
• Chemistry
  • NileRed, NileBlue
  • NightHawkInLight: infrared cooling paint
  • Cody’sLab
• Biology
  • Acapella Science
  • TheBrainScoop
• Climate
  • ClimateTown
  • JustHaveAThink
• General
  • CrashCourse
  • CGP Grey

Resources

• Computers
  • Teach Yourself Computer Science: full on 1500 hours curriculum
  • W3schools: learn webdev
  • Exercism: a low bar python practice challenge tutorial structure.

Curriculums

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 2A-6, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Controls, Instrumentation, and Robotics

• 2016
  • 2.013 - Engineering Systems Design
  • 2.014 - Engineering Systems Build
  • 2.05 - Thermodynamics
  • 2.051 - Heat Transfer
  • 2.678 - Intro Electronics
  • 2.994 - Truck Thesis
  • 17.181 - Sustainability
  • STS.025J - Industrial Revolution
  • STS.087 - Biography
• 2015
  • 2.007 - Design & Manufacturing I
  • 2.12 - Intro to Robotics
  • 2.671 - Measurement & Instrumentation
  • 6.131 - Power Electronics
  • 6.141 - Robotics & Systems I
  • 21F.401 - Deutsch I
  • 21F.402 - Deutsch II
• 2014
  • 2.001 - Mechanics I
  • 2.003 - Dynamics & Control I
  • 2.004 - Dynamics & Control II
  • 2.06 - Fluid Mechanics
  • 2.086 - Numerical Computation
  • 4.211J - Future City
  • 6.01 - Intro to EECS
  • 6.002 - Circuits & Electronics
  • 6.007 - Quantum & Electronics
  • 21W.773 - Sci-Fy Novel
• 2013
  • 3.091 - Solid State Chemistry
  • 6S.076 - Design, Blade Kotelly
  • 7.012X - Intro to Biology, Eric Lander
  • 8.01 - Physics Mechanics
  • 8.02 - Physics Electromagnetism
  • 9.00 - Intro to Brain & Cognition
  • 18.01 - Single Variable Calculus
  • 18.02 - Multivariable Calculus
  • 18.03 - Differential Equations
  • AS.100 - Air Force Officer Training
  • STS.010 - Neuroscience & Society

University of Alaska Fairbanks: Summer Programs

• Alaska Summer Research Academy (ASRA): attended 7 summers
• Summer Leadership Institute (SLI)
• NASA Goddard Research Center Internship: accepted, but unfortunately too young to get clearance at the time

Austin E. Lathrop High School: Engineering Track

• 2012
  • AP English
  • AP Calculus
  • AP Computer Science
  • AP Statistics
  • AP US Government
  • Economics
  • Engineering Design & Development
  • Physics
• 2011
  • AP Biology
  • AP Composition
  • AP US History
  • Digital Electronics
  • Early American Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Pre-Calculus
  • Tennis
• 2010
  • Algebra II
  • AP European History
  • Chemistry
  • German II
  • Principles of Engineering
• 2009
  • Alaska Studies
  • Biology A & B
  • English 9 Honors
  • Geometry & Trigonometry
  • German I
  • Health
  • Intro to Engineering