CSP Community Spotlight: Gold Star

I wear a lot of hats and play a lot of roles. I’m a husband, father, academic author, writer (debatable), engineer, manager, director, and researcher. I’ve recently accepted the difficult roles of coach and mentor. I’m a cook, I’m a reader, I’m a basketball fanatic. But, in the modern parlance, I identify as a teacher. That’s why I spent hundreds of hours working at the Tutorial Center at SRJC, taught computer familiarization to East-Bay high-school students in the 80s, did lots of EE TA jobs in graduate school, and taught multiple engineering classes at NPS in the aughts. And it is a big part of the CSP Blog too. Yes, I lecture you at length on understanding and using the statistics of communication signals ™, but the real work, the real progress for both of us, is found in your comments and my replies thereto. The actual teaching and learning part. That’s the call-and-response, the Q-n-A, the “Comments Section” of the CSP Blog. What does a teacher want? What’s the goal? What is our…