Good afternoon.
Any electrical/computer engineers in here? What is your favorite part about your career?
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@proto_azure I am a few things, predominately a Data Scientist, however I am also trained as an Electrical and Computer Engineer and have a full EE lab here. Though it is only a part of what I do some of the time.
For me I mostly just love seeing advanced maths realized in simple ways you can play with hands on. There isnt a lot of fields that have that, at least not from a setting you can do in a relatively inexpensive lab (compared to say a particle physics lab or something that easily would cost many orders of magnitude more).
@freemo that is amazing. I've always loved math in my work.
Did you have to go through several careers through college or were you trained, or both? In order to become two types of engineer
@proto_azure Well I had an unusual university career. I started university at 15/16 I think it was. I skipped high school and went right to university. So I had some extra time.
Plus I went through university suprisingly fast, tested out of a lot of the more basic classes or would take multiple classes and just go and takethe tests and not really do much of the coursework that wasnt graded.
@proto_azure Electrical engineering attracted me because it touched so many foundational areas of mathematics, physics and chemistry. It is also a very diverse field of study, so I believe it is well matched for the curious. In my career I have had the privilege of designing a high precision oscillator, anti-jam communication protocols, RF circuit design, signal processing work for 4G cellular modems, integration of satellite and aircraft flight hardware, and many other projects, and I probably wrote over 100e3 lines of matlab code.
I have since moved on to other careers, but the foundations of that education and career experience are still paying dividends.
@proto_azure Dr Freeman is, our admin. He doesn't seem to be around today, no peep so far.
Kind of strange, but he will be back.