Abe's Blog

Hi, I'm Abe Michelen. I'm an electrical engineer and I teach engineering at a local college (in Troy, NY) - digital electronics, microprocessors (I believe that the PIC is the best processor nowadays!), nanotechnology and programming.

Although I will mostly focus on technical matters, like engineering, education and science; I believe an engineer, a scientist or any person should be acquainted with all aspects of human knowledge. I belive everyone should know of the important philosophers - Thomas Aquinas, Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adler, Sartre, and Camus - and the extraordinary contributions they made to our civilization; I believe that every human being should know where Burkina Faso is located and the name of the capital city of Benin. I believe that you should not spend your time on Earth without understanding the music of Beethoven, Albinoni, and Mozart; without admiring Renoir, Rembrandt and Goya, and without reading Goethe, Moliere, Dostoyevsky, Balzac and Shakespeare. After all, these people, these places, these ideas are an integral part of all of us.