Resources - Educational

Videos

Below is a collection of video channels ranging from introductory to highly technical:

• Engineering: Applied Science, Stuff Made Here, Mark Rober
• Computers: PBS Crash Course Computer Science, Ben Eater, Computerphile
• Science & Physics: Sixty Symbols, Veritasium, PBS SpaceTime, Smarter Everyday, Science Asylum
• Space: Scott Manley, Everyday Astronaut
• Math: 3 Blue 1 Brown, Numberphile
• Optics & Imaging: iBio Microscopy, DresdenIFN - Image Formation, MIT Lasers and Optics, Huygen Optics
• Computer Vision: Hany Farid - UC Berkeley, Stanford CS231n - Computer Vision, Cyrill Stachniss - University of Bonn
• Control Theory & Robotics: Brian Douglas - Control System Lectures, Cyrill Stachniss - University of Bonn
• Machine Learning: Stat Quest, Stanford CS 229 - Machine Learning, deeplearning.ai
• Algorithms & Data Structures: Hany Farid - UC Berkeley - Python, Rob Edwards - SDSU - Java
• Design: Everything’s A Remix
• Fluid Mechanics: NSF Fluid Mechanics Series
• Thwaites Glacier: Vox - Why scientists are so worried about this glacier, ABC News - A huge Antarctic glacier is ripping itself apart and the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could be next

Books

• Technical Books & Notes
  • Engineering: NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
  • Math: “Div Grad Curl and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus”, “Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers”
  • Optics: Optics, Eugene Hecht, Thorlabs Optical Microscopy Course - Course Notes PDF
  • Computer Vision: Hany Farid - Fundamentals of Image Processing Course Notes PDF
  • Fluid Dynamics: “A First Course in Turbulence”, “Biology and the Mechanics of the Wave-Swept Environment” (Chapters 9 Benthic Boundary Layers, Chapter 10 Turbulence and Mixing)
• Popular Science
  • Wave Physics: “The Wave Watchers Companion: Ocean Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life’s Undulations”
  • Light Physics: “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”
  • Computer Fundementals: “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, “But How Do It Know?: The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone”
  • Design etc.: “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation”, “Envisioning Information”

Tutorials

• Math: Better Explained, Better Explained - Fourier Transforms, Better Explained - Euler’s Formula, Better Explained - Intuitive Guide to Convolution Kahn Academy
• Optics: MicroscopyU
• Control Theory: https://github.com/A-make/awesome-control-theory
• Website Design: https://jayrobwilliams.com/posts/2020/06/academic-website/
• Website gifs made using “gifski”