From: bill.sloman@ieee.org
On 2/12/2025 5:45 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2025 10:00:05 -0800, Joerg
> wrote:
>
>> On 11/29/25 9:30 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>> On 30/11/2025 8:13 am, Joerg wrote:
>>>> On 11/26/25 7:01 PM, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> None. But plenty of present day students seem to have to have a job
>>>>> as well as school.
>>>>> In my case I did partially have a job while at school because
>>>>> although my father didn't
>>>>> specifically offer equipment repair to people off the street, I would
>>>>> often find a
>>>>> non functional piece of electronics waiting for me to find out what
>>>>> was wrong with it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Exactly. Either that or have an electronics hobby. In my case that was
>>>> ham radio but I also repaired lots of radios and TVs. The point is, if
>>>> someone isn't doing any of this and thus hasn't acquired basic skills
>>>> such as soldering or trying to figure out how a circuit is supposed to
>>>> work but doesn't, maybe he or she should not head into an engineering
>>>> career.
>>>
>>> Graduate students learn this kind of practical stuff later than
>>> hobbyists, but there's no reason why they wouldn't learn it just as
>>> well. ...
>>
>>
>> The point is that there is a "too late". Once they have their degree and
>> apply for jobs it is too late.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Best to start on electronics while you're a kid.
Perhaps.
> A mentor sure helps.
If they know enough.
> Few college EE profs have ever had a real job.
Barry Gilbert went from being lecturer at a UK technical tertiary
college to being the guru at Analog Devices. Bob Widlar started off
teaching electronics to technicians.
Being an EE professor is a real job - Paul Horowitz is exactly that -
and Horowitz and Hill's "the Art of Electronics" is very useful textbook.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
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