During high school and college, I had a nice summer job repairing and final testing some expensive government electronics. It used skills I already had, rather than anything from college. The people involved in building what I tested and fixed didn't have any electronics education. They knew their resistor colors, knew diodes only went one way, and could read the labels on chips. They were holdovers from the declining minicomputer businesses, and they were one step away from being replaced by a wave soldering machine if the production volume were a little higher.
When I was in college 93-95 at a reputable engineering school, I had an EE roommate and many friends in the department. They went from math to breadboards to FPGAs, imaginary logic circuits, and VLSI. Nothing as simple as actually building or repairing things; that's for hobby or lower end jobs. It doesn't make for star researchers or big business inventors. I studied computer science. You could graduate without actually opening a computer or assembling a network cable. You'd have to be able to program the computer with a variety of languages and a variety of methods and algorithms. You'd probably get a nice job managing a team of programmers or a serious software project after graduation. I dropped out and started an Internet business like many did during that era. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:28:24PM -0600, Blake Bowers wrote: > No offense, but as also a BSEE, I offer that many people with > a degree still have no clue about test equipment or simple things like > soldering irons. > > I recall all too clearly a young lady who had her BSEE doing an > internship with the FBI, who had no idea how those components > were actually connected together on a board. > > > Don't take your organs to heaven, > heaven knows we need them down here! > Be an organ donor, sign your donor card today. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 9:37 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Spectrum Analyzer Recommendation? > > > >I am an EE... I know my way around a spec-an. > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- /* Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ */ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
