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Where did you go to college?
westfw:
It great to be able to hire people whose previous experience is exactly what you need, and it's great to be hired for a job where what you already know is valuable enough to have an employer offer you big bucks, but those aren't the usual cases.
GeoffS:
I didn't attend college but joined the RAAF straight out of high school. There I studied electronics and became a radio technician working on airborne equipment. I got into computers as a customer engineer for Sperry Univac where all training was in house.
I got into software almost by accident. I was between jobsas an electronics technician and a software support position came up. This was in the early days of personal computing (Tandy TRS-80). The requirements of that job were an electronics background and a proficiency in BASIC. I read a book on BASIC the night before the interview and bluffed my way through it. That was over 30 years ago and I've been doing software support, mostly operating systems, since then. All software training was on the job or self taught.
ArcherShout:
Hello everyone, I love studying, I have already finished school, I want to study in college in New York, I think there are some of the best colleges in the world, I need to write an essay for postgraduate at PapersOwl , this is a very important stage of work.
IanMacdonald:
Heriot-Watt. Nice campus out in the country. When I started it was in the city, and the new campus was just being built.
rstofer:
--- Quote from: gamozo on September 11, 2011, 04:52:06 am ---I haven't attended uni yet, and I really have no desire unless I get into some Ivy league school, I can't really find a school that can challenge me as much as I can myself, and I'm just out to seek knowledge, not some degree to bring in more money. I also feel that once EE becomes a chore, it might lose it's hobby sort of feel. Luckily I have some business ideas, and that would be full time CS and EE with my hobby projects (I feel anyone can agree that personal projects/ideas are much more thrilling than assigned tasks).
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I think you have no idea of just how challenging a real engineering program can be. Just the concurrent math curriculum is a challenge: Calc I, Calc II, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Fourier and Laplace Transforms and Field Theory (Maxwell's Equations). I know I forgot something...
To these you can add with Physics I, Physics II, Statics, Dynamics and Heat Transfer plus, of course, the actual Electronics courses. There are a few General Ed courses but, these days, engineering degrees take about 150 semester units or about 10 semesters (5 years) to complete. Be thankful for the GE courses because they are the only easy courses on the list. Unfortunately, they often have term papers involved.
My grandson is just getting started in ME and it's just about to get real. He thinks he is going to have time for outside adventures and I keep telling him that there's a reason engineering students don't socialize and often wander around with glazed eyes mumbling to themselves. All those engineer stereotypes that people laugh at? They're all true!
And, yes, it IS about the money. More money is better than less money. It's really as simple as that!
The best part of all is knowing how stuff works. Once you take Statics, you never look at a truss bridge or steel frame building the same way. Newton's Second Law of Motion just keeps showing up!
Heck, I had to work through Bernoulli's Equation for stagnation pressure just to calibrate a speedometer (pressure gauge) for my small hydroplane. Engineering shows up in the darndest places.
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