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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by rowanG077 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @08:46AM (#32150696)
Waving hi as a a SE that is moving partially into EE. It's definitely more challenging. Mostly because the tools are really utter shit.
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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by ghostpepper on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @09:42AM (#32151295)
Would be interested to hear a bit more about your experience. Is your software experience with low level firmware/ kernel stuff? Are you finding the math for EE hard to pick up?
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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by rowanG077 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:16AM (#32151812)
My software experience is partly low level firmware stuff but I have also designed databases and done backend/frontend work. I'm mostly doing FPGA and PCB design. Where you do need a little bit of math but it's all pretty basic stuff. Nothing I didn't get during my software degree.
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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by c3bkr on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:44AM (#32165701)
What math do EEs actually use? I have an EE degree and I didn't find the math content in it particularly daunting and in the actual EE courses I felt hardly any math was used beyond at most basic calculus.
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