Tektronix (long before being a division of Danaher) up to at least the mid 70's would require an EE to work in production. I understand some HP divisions did the same. All that started to change when 'software' engineers were showing up.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 5:56 PM, KA2WEU--- via time-nuts <[email protected] > wrote: > I know Zoya for many years, this ham business is a good idea.Give her my > best regards , Ulrich > > > In a message dated 11/11/2015 7:00:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > The EE department at the University of Colorado has an enlightened > professor. > > http://ecee.colorado.edu/faculty/popovic.html > > Zoya required her students to not only get a ham license, but to build a > Norcal 40A. > > http://ecee.colorado.edu/~ecen2420/Files/NorCal40A_Manual.pdf > > > Most of the EE students had no idea what a resistor really was, let alone > have any experience in soldering a resistor or capacitor on a PC board. > One > student stuffed the PC board, bent all the leads 90 degrees without > cutting any of them off, and then in effect flow soldered the whole > bottom of the > PC board! > > One wonders how EE grads today can actually get a job and be productive > with so little hands-on experience. > > Zoya belongs to the Boulder (Colorado) Amateur Radio Club, and our monthly > meetings are in the EE department. It is too bad this is likely an unusual > example of what happens on campuses today. > > Rob > NC0B > > > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete > Lancashire > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 10:01 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Downsizing dilemma, HP 3335A > > > > I can understand the downsizing, someday it will happen to me. And where I > live there is pretty much zero interest in anything electronic. The two > local schools Portland State and Reed both have EE but the students done > seem > to have any interest in anything physical. they believe everything they > need or have interest in can be simulated on a computer. I helped one of > the > PSU EE's one day, just finished his 2nd year, had an old Kenwood stereo > distorted left output. He pretty much had no idea what to do, and when > 'we' > found the bad transistor, he didn't really know how to replace it. > > BTW I know a Comp Sci graduate from PSU that can not write a program in > any language that outputs "Hello World" > > -pete Sad > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:08 AM, paul swed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Bill > > It is unfortunate when the time comes to downsize. Even worse as time > > goes by at least for me each piece of test equipment from HP seems to > > get heavier. Must be dust building up inside. So as Ed says if you > > need that fine grain resolution you need them. > > But you are also running into the age thing in the gear and that there > > are failures that creep in that are really a big problem to figure out. > > Especially if some form of programmable logics involved. > > Lastly sending them to the dumpster is the worst thing. But then the > > ole reality really sets in selling packing and shipping the stuff. > > I guess the good news is that today there is a lot of replacement gear > > that will do reasonably well thats cheap respectively consumes little > > power and can easily be controlled by usb so you don't have to > > actually stop experimenting. > > Regards > > Paul > > WB8TSL > > > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:32 AM, ed breya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You don't save these kinds of synthesizers for high frequency > > > coverage, but for their 10 to 11 digit frequency resolution. If you > > > anticipate needing that, then of course they should be kept and > > > fixed. The long-obsolete telecom standard connectors and ranges are > > > pretty much useless - sacrifice that one first if you need parts for > the others. > > > > > > If you need to justify keeping them, you can use them for practical > > > everyday applications. 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