Updated: Apr. 16, 2010 10:42pm My e-mail: felixgutierrez06 [at] gmail [dot] com This site: www.FelixGutierrezJr.com Work-Related WNCG: http://www.wncg.org Dr. Theodore S. Rappaport: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~wireless Microwaves101 http://www.microwaves101.com/ Great site. This is the stuff they don't teach you in the classroom! I highly recommend this site for any aspiring microwave engineer. So much practical information all condensed in a single website. I have scoured the depths of the Internet looking for more useful information/topics on microwaves and RFIC that textbooks will not (are unable to?) discuss and this website finally delivered it! Keep up the good work guys! Personal Interests Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Updates daily and has some neat information. NASA SkyWatch v.2.0 (requires Java Runtime Environment): http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html This application let's you find out at what day & time you can go outside to watch satellites pass over the night sky! It's pretty cool the first time you watch it. Times are usually evening (just after sunset) or early morning (before sunrise). The sky is just dark enough to see stars, but at the altitude of the satellites, the sun is still shining, so it will reflect light back down to the ground. It pretty much looks like a moving star, but it is so cool to actually see them moving with your own eyes and see how fast they go across the sky! The application will also track the International Space Station and the Shuttle (if it is in orbit). I once looked outside for the ISS and I saw actually 2 "stars" chasing each other. I couldn't understand why I saw 2 objects, until I realized that the shuttle had just launched the day before and I was literally watching the shuttle beginning to dock with the ISS. Pretty cool! Educated Earth: http://educatedearth.net/index.php I absolutely love this site. It's so interesting and educational. It even donates money to great organizations wanting to change the world. The general public gets to decide who should receive the donation. Unfortunately, this site has been unavailable in the past, but so far it recently came back online. Let's hope it continues to stay operational! TED talks: http://www.ted.com/ An amazing site that you can easily get lost in. Very inspirational. These talks are delivered by innovative thinkers and doers. I hope one day I can deliver a talk here. PBS-NOVA: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ I know PBS may sound boring, but they actually have some really great programming. I love to watch this science program called "NOVA". From technology to anthropology, NOVA will discuss all areas of science and there is never a dull episode! Frontline isn't too bad either. xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com Ahh...xkcd. One of my favorite sites to visit when I need some down-time. Warning: only scientists/engineers/mathematicians will get these jokes! Hint: Hover over the images for an added surprise. Piled Higher and Deeper: http://www.phdcomics.com/ Might be overtaking xkcd as my favorite comic site to visit. These strips are amazingly close to reality. Digitally Imported and SKY.fm: http://www.di.fm/ http://www.sky.fm (sister site) Free online radio that delivers a wide variety of music. Good for all musical tastes. I've been a fan for years. It started off with electronic/techno music, but has grown substantially over the past years to include virtually all types of music. Premium service delivers higher quality audio. Free listening will have (rare) ads. Digital Blasphemy: http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/ Spice up your desktop wallpaper with these vivid computer generated images. Very talented artist! Useful Tools Zotero: http://www.zotero.com/ I absolutely love this tool. This converts your firefox browser (sorry IE users) into a citation management program. See an interesting PDF on IEEE Xplore? Zotero will automatically record all the bibliographic information, extract out tags and keywords, and store it locally on your computer. You can even type in personal notes about the document, save a link to it, or even save the document to your computer. You can search through your entire library of citations/notes for keywords or tags as well. I absolutely love this. Need more information about antenna measurement? Just do a quick search and pull up all the citations/notes in your library that are related to "antenna measurement". Want to find all the works done by a certain author/university. Simply search. Want to transfer this citation and notes to another computer? No problem, just click "synchronize" and it uploads all citations/notes/attachments to a Zotero server (create a free user account first) and you can synchronize it on another machine that has firefox/zotero installed. Best of all: It's free! Apparently, it is made by researchers for reserchers. Did I mention I absolutely love this program? :) Pixlr: http://pixlr.com/ Want Photoshop and don't have it? Are you currently on a computer right now with the cutting-edge image editing technology of Microsoft Paint? Try this link out. It is an online picture editing utility built using Flash. I think this is a brilliant tool! Technical Writing Tips: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/writing.html Dr. Adnan Aziz, part of the UT faculty, has compiled a nice list of writing tips. I find these tips useful and skim over them when I need to write a journal/conference paper. (And of course thesis/dissertation). |
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