Learning the Art of Electronics A Hands-On Lab Course

'The University of Maryland physics department has been using Learning the Art of Electronics for several years now as the basis for a course for senior undergraduates / young graduate students in order to give them the tools they need to be successful in experimental research. The course also serves a wide variety of Ph.D. candidates in our engineering college. The text, with its laboratory exercises, not only introduces them to the fundamentals of experiment readout and a wide variety of circuits and techniques, but methodically introduces them to the common mistakes and oversimplifications typical of new designers. I was thrilled to see this new edition contains an entirely new set of chapters introducing students to professional-level use of a microcontroller development environment and real-time operating systems, that goes far beyond the very simple exercises typically found on public web sites and other resources. We used preliminary versions of these exercises in our spring 2024 lab course, and the students were immediately able to use what they learned in their own research.' Sarah C. Eno, University of Maryland, College Park