Preparing Students Equipped with the State of Art Technologies with Appropriate Mix of Fundamentals

During my teaching career of the state-of-art courses for the last 30+ years, I am convinced that the foundation of any Hi-Tech course lies in the fundamentals. The fundamentals are derived from physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The integration of fundamentals, I plan to depict through examples in three of my Hi-Tech courses I am teaching at the moment namely VLSI Design, VLSI Fabrication, and MMIC Design and Fabrication. Over the years, I also developed and taught Local Area and Computer Networking, Introduction to ITS Technologies, and VHDL Based Digital Design, where I always incorporated fundamentals. Presently, I am also teaching Circuit Theory wherein I emphasize how fundamentals of Circuit Theory serve as backbone for my research on Sensors and Bulk Acoustic Wave Filters presently. Historically about 250 years ago it was only physics and applied physics, which culminated into engineering later on. Engineering then grew into specialized disciplines such as Civil, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronics, Chemical, Material, and Plastics engineering etc.