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No SMPS projects for University and college students?
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ebastler:

--- Quote from: treez on July 26, 2020, 04:14:19 pm ---Is it true that UK univerisites and colleges are banned from giving students  <500W Hard switched SMPS projects for their final year project because of lack of jobs in UK for such work?
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I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Simon:
Well that was short work, they took less than a minute to post those so bots yes.

Universities in the UK don't give a toss about the job market. If they did they would actually teach students and we would not have these pathetic 3 years courses that don't actually teach you anything. A friend moved to France, he can't get work, this is because in France students do 5 year degrees and actually get taught stuff, he can't compete - his degree was half mechanical and half electronic, while you should be taught a range of knowledge I thought university was about sticking to at least one broad subject not two. This poor chap is not even a jack of both trades and certainly a master of neither.

Here you do three years, get taught nothing and then go off to be an apprentice where some poor mug has to teach you what university did not. This is why when we were looking for another engineer I chose an avid hobbyist and was not interested in seeing graduates, if I have to teach someone, it will be because they were never taught in the first place not because the went to "feeling like you can do it school, think you know it but can't do shit for all the debt they are in now!" school.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Simon on April 12, 2022, 07:36:10 pm ---This poor chap is not even a jack of both trades and certainly a master of neither.

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Whether to become a "jack of all trades" or "master of Xerox toner mechanisms" is a career choice. Either is valid, with associated advantages and disadvantages.


--- Quote ---Here you do three years, get taught nothing and then go off to be an apprentice where some poor mug has to teach you what university did not.

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That is completely dependent on the course. Some are excellent, some less so.

I want back to my university on the 40th anniversary of our graduation, and the open day showed that the course was still as excellent as ever: a good mix of theory, practical, teamwork and individual work. And it was still possible for undergrads to use the lab facilities for their home projects :)


--- Quote ---This is why when we were looking for another engineer I chose an avid hobbyist and was not interested in seeing graduates, if I have to teach someone, it will be because they were never taught in the first place not because the went to "feeling like you can do it school, think you know it but can't do shit for all the debt they are in now!" school.

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I've always looked for both the ability to absorb and use theory, and the drive to do their own practical hobby work. Most people don't manage one or the other, but both are necessary.

Theory without practice is mental masturbation.
Practice without theory is blind fumbling.
strawberry:
ESAB, Telwin, ... made in EU
can tell by TDK/epcos ... parts
no shortage for hard switching SMPS
Simon:
In the age of of EV's and new energy solutions there will be no lack of demand for switching technology, but if all the graduates are taught is the standard configurations and to run the formula's they will just be regular engineers. I can knock up a small SMPS if I want, but I'm not stupid enough to go out and start designing something big or novel without some prior experience.
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