Wednesday, April 30, 2008

DSP Forum Started

When GP ma'am proposed that a new forum will be operated where seniors get to interact with juniors and teach them and learn with them.

It was difficult choosing DSP, but me and Sandy chose it, coz off late we were working on few algorithms classified as statistical signal processing. We thought Matlab will fill the gaps in our attempt, and we said its DSP with MatLab

The first day, Principal came and announced full support. And officially, DSP Forum was flagged off.

The night before the very first class, I took out Simon Haykin, "signals and Systems" book. With the intension of brushing through I made some quick notes for the next day. To our surprise there were more freshers than our immediate juniors.

They said right right when they said, we got to come out of our comfort zones to get better. I was caught off guard when I saw a crowd of first years, 6 months into engineering looking at me with a hope that I am gonna teach them DSP and MatLab.

That day I did a descent job. I chucked my notes and started talking impromptu. I talked about Sampling, I stated Nyquist theorem and I talked about Digital systems. In fact I was able to put in place the notion of signal and systems. Borrowing the idea of Infinite loops and non converging infinite series I could drive the idea of instability in systems. I ended the class with few feed backs from the students but I knew I was short on what I wanted of this class.