Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
<elsnipo>
Meanwhile, I would hang out in the lab, helping other students struggle
with the proper pinout of TO-92 and TO-220 transistors, hooking up the
scopes properly, how to take measurements, etc. There were 3 of us in
the lab (all undergraduates) who knew what we were doing, the rest of
the students were clueless (especially the honors students). We spent
more time helping them than working on our own projects. What made the
difference for us 3 was that we were into electronics as a hobby before
we went to college for the EE degree. The others had no previous
exposure to electronics. I have no idea what made them decide to go
into EE...
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
Ivan,
I whole heartedly agree, as a newbie to EE (I am not a degreed EE, but
self taught from doing an Electronics Servicing trade) I find that most
EE degreed people fresh from UNI (or large companies where they have
techs to prototype) THEY HAVE NO CLUE, sure they can design whiz bang
products, and provide pages of text to support the design, but when it
comes to making it WORK, it is the techs who nut the problems out. I
have seen countless things from PCB's to Enclosures to Car Engine spaces
that were designed by Engineers, and are not service friendly.
Alot of people like designs I do, as they are easy to service, and easy
to understand, sure it takes me about 8 hours to design a product,
layout the PCB and build a couple of custom footprints, and being EE
degreed may make it quicker, BUT would it improve the end result ? would
it make the product last longer, work better ?
I learn from the school of hard knocks, (Protel default foot prints are
poor, the default hole size on say a RB cap for the larger sizes is not
big enough for the pins, and caused me to loose a few au$$$ but I
learn't and made my own with bigger holes) I have learnt to use tools
like lint to check my code so it does not have errors with loss of
precision etc that may only affect the device 0.001% of the time.
I guess what I am saying is that IMHO degreed EE's need MORE hands on
and less theory (I would even vote to increase Uni an extra YEAR and
make them do more hands on and prac placements in the REAL world). A
background weather hobby or tech level before a degree sure helps IMHO.
After a while though you realise all that matters in the end is not the
piece of paper, but the practical, what you can do etc.
Regards,
Kat.
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