So honestly, this demonstrates the value of an education in the field. The EE BS degree has a tremendous focus on theory and students don't really get a great a

So honestly, this demonstrates the value of an education in the field. The EE BS degree has a tremendous focus on theory and students don't really get a great appreciation for the reason that it has such a focus. But if you thought about it, you'd realize that if you're measuring, say, the voltage across a capacitor, there should never be any fast dv/dt spikes. The physics doesn't allow it, which means you're measuring something else. You can either hand wave and say how it can't be, and ignore the spikes, or you can set up the measurement properly to exclude them. This later approach takes experience, which is harder to teach. Most of us pick it up from years in the lab, or occasionally reading an article from a master like Bob Pease. It's a shame we haven't figured out a good blend between theory and practice that can produce a graduate who actually knows this kind of stuff. But I suppose the field of electrical engineering is so broad that if we tried, school would either take 10 years or would produce such a finely tuned graduate they'd be useless for anything else.