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Essential Core

Audience

Learners with limited time who still want a complete EE foundation

Final outcome

Complete a minimum loop through math, circuits, signals, digital systems, electromagnetics, electronics, and one demonstrable project; aggregate the maintainer planning estimates on each course page and recalibrate after a two-week pilot of every course.

Stages

Math and programming

Selection rule: Complete all 5 required courses and complete the elective option.

Stage exit criterion: Score at least 80% on a calibration set spanning calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, and probability, and submit a Python/C numerical experiment repository reproducible from a clean environment with at least five automated checks.

EE core

Selection rule: Complete all 5 required courses.

Stage exit criterion: Model one system from circuit, signal, digital-logic, electromagnetic-field, and transistor perspectives, then submit a hand-calculation-to-simulation comparison; key quantities must agree within 10%, with dimensionally consistent explanations for any exception.

Engineering closure

Selection rule: Complete all 2 required courses.

Stage exit criterion: Deliver a demonstrable board-level build whose repository includes requirements, schematic, PCB, BOM, firmware, assembly instructions, and continuous test records; all five predeclared end-to-end acceptance cases must pass.

Execution rules

  • Follow each stage's selection rule: complete every required course and the stated number of electives; when complete path options are provided, choose one and finish every course in its listed order; use optional supplements only to close a specific gap.
  • Produce at least one reproducible artifact per stage and include failed attempts in the retrospective.
  • Work involving mains voltage, high voltage, RF exposure, lasers, chemicals, or fabrication equipment requires local-law compliance and qualified supervision.