EPISODE 01
Power & Energy
Grid-Forming Inverters & Virtual Synchronous Machines
"Who holds the frequency when nothing is spinning?"
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Season 1 · 5 Episodes · ~13–16 min each
A graduate-level electrical-engineering course you listen to like a book. Each episode re-derives a core idea, then brings it current to today's industry standard — and hands you a self-test to turn listening into skill.
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EPISODE 02
Signal & Comms
OFDM, the Cyclic Prefix & 5G Numerology
"How to make a brutal channel behave like a spreadsheet."
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EPISODE 03
Embedded & Control
Field-Oriented Control of PMSMs
"How to make a three-phase motor think it's a DC motor."
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EPISODE 04
Semiconductors & VLSI
From FinFET to Gate-All-Around Nanosheets
"Wrapping the gate all the way around to keep Moore's law breathing."
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EPISODE 05
Power + Estimation
Battery SOC: Coulomb Counting vs. Kalman
"Why your battery gauge is secretly running an optimal estimator."
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About the course
Pitched at the graduate level for an engineer already fluent in Laplace and Fourier, circuit and semiconductor physics, control theory, and embedded fundamentals — so there's no Ohm's law and no "what's a transistor." Every episode follows the same lesson shape: Objective → Refresher → What changed → Mechanism → Industry standard today → Self-test. The bias is toward post-2013 developments, because the goal is to keep the fundamentals sharp and close the gap to where the field actually is now.
Companion app. The undergraduate foundations each episode builds on are quests in CircuitQuEEst, a free, offline Android app that teaches EE across 42 topics (download the APK). Every episode page lists the quests to warm up with first.