Engineering & Robotics

Stephen Boyd's classic Stanford graduate sequence on convex sets, convex functions, duality, KKT conditions, interior-point methods, and engineering/ML modeling.

Systems engineering case study of the Space Shuttle taught by NASA's former Space Shuttle program manager and astronauts: main engines, thermal protection tiles, avionics, aerodynamics, and Columbia/Challenger lessons.

Nonlinear dynamics, phase-portrait geometry, dynamic programming, trajectory optimization, Lyapunov sum-of-squares verification, legged locomotion, and contact-rich manipulation.

From CMOS transistors, combinational logic, and sequential state machines up through instruction set architectures, pipelining, out-of-order execution, caches, DRAM controllers, and hardware accelerators.

Stephen Boyd develops applied linear algebra and matrix exponential dynamics: least-squares estimation, singular value geometry, autonomous state trajectories, controllability, and LQR design.

Spatial descriptions, Denavit-Hartenberg forward and inverse kinematics, manipulator Jacobians, Lagrangian dynamics, trajectory generation, and operational-space force control.