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Steve Ward

Mon Sept 22 2008, 11:24PM

Registered Member #146 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:21AM
Location: Austin Tx
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Im an EE, just recently got a job designing brushless DC motor controllers for the aerospace industry. Working with IGBT bricks, with DSPs sitting on top of them is common here. Very powerful and extremely high performance is the name of the game here. Soon i get to work on a drive with 1400A silicon in it!

Tesladownunder

Mon Sept 29 2008, 07:44AM

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Location: Bunbury, Australia
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I dropped out of physics after a year. Does that count?
Funny that things have turned a full circle and now 30 years later, I make stuff and run displays for the same department.

TDU

uzzors2k

Mon Sept 29 2008, 08:59PM

Registered Member #95 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:57PM
Location: Norway
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First year EE student at Oslo University College, or OUC(H).

Bob J

Tue Sept 30 2008, 06:56PM

Registered Member #810 Joined: Wed May 30 2007, 05:23PM
Location: Quincy MA
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Physics major from the Naval Academy.... Currently an Engineer (Quality) for the Foxboro company....

Bored Chemist

Tue Sept 30 2008, 07:53PM

Registered Member #193 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
Location: sheffield
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No prize for guessing that I'm a chemist.

Dave47

Thu Oct 02 2008, 03:03AM

Registered Member #84 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 01:06PM
Location: Dallas, TX
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Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Physics. I have done EE type work for Texas Instruments for almost 13 years. Some ADC projects I have worked on in the past include:

All of these:

also all of these:

And quite a few others over the years.

David

Arcstarter

Thu Oct 02 2008, 03:12AM

Registered Member #1225 Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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Ultra7 wrote ...

I'm a cable guy.
Got an Associates in electronics engineering before doing 10 years in the Army.
In the Army I was a Network Switching Systems Engineer, which is a fancy way of saying Telephone Switch Tech. After i got out I had a boatload of Army College money, but never used it. Instead I got married, had kids, got divorced, got a series of crummy jobs until I found Cable and here I stayed for the last 5 years.

In essence, I'm a nobody that likes to build stuff in my garage, and you guys are cool enough to help keep me from electrocuting myself.

So what you are basically trying to say is you think of yourself as a nobody? Sounds like me....

I am in 10th grade, home schooled( which if anyone cares to know i hate it and i have gone from a and b student to wtf i cannot do this s%#t because my memory sucks student). I dont know what i am gonna do for college. What does EE in college have to do with?

Tiberius

Thu Oct 02 2008, 11:13AM

Registered Member #1484 Joined: Wed May 14 2008, 03:24PM
Location: Cary, NC, USA
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I studied EE for a few semesters, changed my concentration to CS, studied that for a few semesters... ultimately realized it wasn't the discipline that mattered so much as my attitude and my lack of motivation to learn concepts that didn't interest me.. I dropped out and went into Unix administration, got tired of that and ultimately realized my problem was with authority. I think I've decided to ditch materialism, co-locate the rackmount servers I have that constitute my computing environment, sell the remainder of my possessions, buy an extremely cheap, power efficient, reliable laptop, and start drifting... see the world, meet interesting people, visit random schools and sit in on classes until they realize I'm not on the roll, that sort of jazz.

coillah

Thu Oct 16 2008, 08:31AM

Registered Member #1517 Joined: Wed Jun 04 2008, 06:55AM
Location: Chico CA
Posts: 304

Tiberius you remind me of someone from On The Road. I have always enjoyed that daydream of just saying screw it and wandering off down the traintracks.

Arcstarter, from what I am reading you have a problem with stimulation. Someone isn't challenging you enough with things that interest you. But don't forget that even the things that seem uninteresting are also important, you just don't know why yet :) (no one knows why at the time)

At CSU Chico EE's take most of the basic engineering courses. You build a foundation of understanding through physics, then the engineers take you and give you the tools of analysis. After which you learn how to unlearn everything you learn, and then you graduate when you know nothing again. its pretty fun. here is a course outline for an EE:

EE Major Plan

I get especially envious about the Fields and Waves course :)

Here's some MAPs (major academic plan) for my majors:
Mechatronic Engineering
Physics (Optics)

Hon1nbo

Sun Oct 19 2008, 10:15PM

Registered Member #902 Joined: Sun Jul 15 2007, 08:17PM
Location: North Texas
Posts: 1040

Junior in High School, not sure where I'll go to college but Fordham is looking nice since they tend to tailor-make engineering courses (for a Bachelor's degree) to what you want to apply it to, and I can get my masters after it.

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