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Hi yall, try to keep bias out of this as much as possible. I know it’s political but answers can still be factual and not emotional.

What does the job market specially EE related fields in semiconductor electronics look like under Trumps presidency? What is the outlook for upcoming college graduates looking for jobs in industry?

It says RL is producing 3W. So Voltage on it 9.487V and current is 0.316A. I also know that the voltage on the x/100% is 9.487V. The question asks what % is the potentiometer set to. I feel like I got close to the question but can't figure out if I'm missing something obvious.

Power engineering is one of the career paths I'm considering. I have a few questions to ask about it though:

1. How's the salary, job security, and work life balance?

2. How easy is it to break into this industry as a new grad?

One of the career paths I'm looking at is semiconductors. I wanted to ask a few things about it though.

1. How is the salary, job security, and work life balance?

2. I heard that the semi conductor industry is boom and bust. Does that mean there's no job security in this industry?

3. How are the future prospects? I think it's always nice to be in a growing field if possible since you can just ride the growth wave to success. Will the semiconductor industry grow a lot?

4. Is this industry easy for a new grad to get into? We're already in a job market where every entry position requires 2-5 years of experience, so trying to get into a non-beginner-friendly field in an already non-beginner-friendly job market would be tough.

Hey all! I transferred fields about a year ago, I work in commissioning for electrical engineering, and discover that I really like it. I got into the field, purely by luck, someone felt that I was very smart and they recommended me to help out because the company was a need, and I ended up really liking it. The concepts are easy for me to grasp, I enjoy learning everything about it, and is a very lucrative field. I have a couple degrees but I was thinking would it be beneficial for me to go and get a specific degree for electrical engineering? Or are there certifications I could take the supplement the degrees that I already have. Thank you so much.

I'm starting to look into career paths and I already have a few in mind. However, there's always the possibility I overlooked something. For a career in EE I'm looking for something with good salary, job security, and not working a lot of overtime in a week. Are there any jobs that fit this criteria well?

One of my university courses requires me to interview someone who works in a role that I might want to do.

Are there any hardware engineers that would be willing to let me interview them?

Can someone help me? I am tryint to solve this RC circuit and solve for current, voltage and capacitor across all the components. I would appreciate your guy's help thank you.

When an electric current passes through a conductor, it generates heat, increasing the conductor's temperature and, consequently, its electrical resistance.

This increase in resistance should reduce the current to maintain a constant voltage. As the current decreases, the heat produced in the wire should also decrease, causing the temperature to drop and the resistance to decrease.

This reduction in resistance should then allow the current to increase again, seemingly creating a continuous cycle of increasing and decreasing current.

However, this does not appear to happen in reality. Why doesn’t the current oscillate in this manner? I've been thinking about this for a while, but I don’t know what I’m missing here.

P.S. I even tried modeling this mathematically but ended up with an unsolvable differential equation.

I'm making a mouse, and I want to add a 2.4hz mode. I have very little understanding of 2.4ghz and rf in general, so a solution as simple as possible is desired. (I am willing to learn, but can't find resources about this.) I really want it to be able connect over I2C, NOT SPI. Thanks!

Hi! I am a 3rd year EE student (5 year programme, with intergrated masters) and next year I will need to choose a specialty between Power, Electronics and Telecommunications.

I am leaning towards power (more specifically nuclear or renewable energy sources) and I want to see the basic concepts of it and maybe youtube is a good way to start. Is there anyone you would recommend? Also what is your opinion on the power engineering market in Europe?

Please keep in mind I'm in Europe. I'm slightly worried that companies will move to US when the import tariffs come. The company I am working at has already made an entire plan to move to the US. I think they are already hiring there aswell but under a different name. I mean it is the exact same job description I had when I started.

This is my first job after college so I don't have much knowledge about the work field. People don't pick EE as a degree and only around 300 people graduate each year (which is very low compared to other studies here). So, there is a bunch of work and no one to fill it.

I currently work at a mega chemical industrial area. Basically, I do 3 things: I make sure they don't have a blackout (the grid in the EU is just a joke tbh), help plan development/ replacements of the system and I make sure that the backup power works.

Sadly the future of the chemical industry in this area is not good. A lot are planning on leaving and the goverment is pushing hard for them to become climate positive.

I have a bachelors and a master in EE. My masters is for power engineering/energy but I have gotten many certifications/diplomas for other parts of EE by myself. These include wireless com, satelite com, ferous technology, robotics basics to advanced, self driving cars, cloud computing, some RF stuff relating to audio, video and wifi and lastly a whole bunch of Embedded systems things.

So I got some job offers:

1. This company does: Design and development of electrical systems, equipment and components, aimed at optimizing performance and efficiency for various applications. from what I could understand they do basically everything.

2. Lightyear EV company. They offer a huge salary but subsidies on EV are mostly gone now. So, not sure if it's smart for my job security. Seems cool tho.

3. This one makes stuff for the entertaiment industry. Checking ordered electrical panels; Selecting the right transformers; Developing PLC circuit diagrams. I don't know what salary I could get. But seems alright.

4. PLC engineer at a robotic company. About 10% of the work will be international travel. I have 0 experience with a company doing international travel. Could be fun or could be hell.

5. Industry job at same industrial area but a different company. But I am kind of bored in this area and future is not certain.

6. Consultancy firm. I heard people really enjoy this work and pay is great. But I also heard it's hard work and often overtime.

7. Software engineering jobs. I have 5 options but it seems really boring.

8. Reliabilty engineer for medical devices. Seems cool and different.

Keep in mind this is EU. I get unlimited sick days and at the very least 25 vacation days a year always paid overtime (if not I can sue). Almost all of the above give a company car, hybrid work and budget to educate myself further.

So any advice would help tremendously!

I am the student of COEP tech, currently in 2nd year 4th semester of my BTech in Electrical engineering.
As I am a dsy(direct second year) student our admissions were done extremely late, so my due to this my cgpa is very low (5.0/10). suggest me some companies/psu's to do internship. Also give advice on how i can improve my cgpa!!!

So I found this old motor that runs on 240v AC there are 2 wires coming out of each coil could someone help me find out how I hook I it up

The text says that the three circuit are indistinguishable as far as their performance viewed from terminal ab is concerned. But then how are b and c equivalent? What happened to the inductors in c?

I am designing a Push-Pull Converter and need to implement a Soft Starter circuit to mitigate inrush current. However, during my research, I found many different circuit designs. I would like to know the most suitable Soft Starter circuit for a Push-Pull Converter and the criteria for selecting the appropriate design.

https://preview.redd.it/ak87eggxihge1.png?width=978&format=png&auto=webp&s=98f05ea8ae98024cd001eba1d46c6a0b5205df4e

I have been trying to solve this problem for quite some time now. There is an answer key in the back of the book, but I don't understand how they found their values of beta and eta.

https://preview.redd.it/it785q47jhge1.png?width=1166&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b08caa356351315bd7b479c3f61c1cffa0c27a9

To my understanding, these are Maxwell's Equations for the phasor domain when in a source-free medium. (pasted below is what is written in the textbook)

https://preview.redd.it/xcag897ejhge1.png?width=434&format=png&auto=webp&s=b93fb4d79d16db17c7c8280590103c67e49a9707

I genuinely have no idea what to do because I have taken the curl of both E and H which gives me vectors in the a_y direction. Is the definition of the two functions in the problem ok? I just don't understand how the electric field and magnetic field can have their components in the same direction while propagating in the z-direction (assuming this is a wave). Is there an issue with the problem or am I missing something? (I fully expect to be missing something lol)

Hey everyone, first time posting here! I feel like this is kind of an obvious question, but I’d rather ask people with experience than make a decision blindly.

So, I’m currently in community college working on an associate’s in electrical engineering, and I’ll be transferring to an accredited university this September to study embedded systems engineering. While job hunting, I got an offer to be an RF radio technician at a defense company owned by Honeywell. It’s not exactly what I want to do long-term, but it is somewhat related to my field.

The company’s talent acquisition guy is really pushing me to take it, saying stuff like, “If you take this role, you’re guaranteed an engineering job after college we hire internally.” Sounds great, but since he’s in talent acquisition, I’m taking it with a grain of salt, as I feel like he would be biased.

Has anyone here taken a lower level job in college and actually gotten internally hired into an engineering role? Would taking this job be a smart move for my career, even though it’s not directly in embedded systems? Any advice would be super appreciated!

I am a Thai physics teacher and want to use the Generator to teach my student about Static Electricity.

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but I got a problem that my Generator seem to collect the Charge too slow as you see in this video.

the voltage get up as the rate of around 0.1 MilliVolt per 1 second which is I think it's too slow.

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any advice on this?

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I live in Thailand which have Wet and Hot Weather.

https://reddit.com/link/1if03fb/video/d7bc8723zgge1/player

I have about 200 samples which were all tested to failure using the same setup. I was asked to come up wirh a FIT model for them but I'm honestly clueless. Any suggestions for where to start or what I need to do would be greatly appreciated. I'm truly lost.

So I have been in my first job after college and its great. I have a great team, good work, and great benefits. However, I feel like my creative juices and motivation to make things is gone. I struggle to get started on a personal project. What advice is there to keep my self motivated and even help get my ideas going for personal project?

I'm trying to decide between a couple offers and though I'm waiting on some of the final details to accurately compare total compensation they should be pretty similar in that regard. The main difference is one is consulting and one is working for an owners in house design team. I've spent the past 8 years since graduating in consulting so I know that world decently well but the owners side I've only seen from my interactions as a consultant. Can anyone help provide some insight into the differences?

Both positions are senior electrical engineering positions within the mission critical industry. The consulting firm is a relatively small company that is building out the mission critical side of their business currently and the owner side is large but not massive.

I've been out of the mission critical side of things for a few years but spent 5 years there and am still comfortable with it.

I'm honestly 50/50 on this decision at the moment and really just need some further insight to help me fill out the pro cons list on this one.

I’ve been learning about synchronous generators, and I have a question about the stator. In a single phase, two pole generator, what is the purpose of having many slots in the stator? Rather, that are the benefits of having multiple slots and field windings, over just two large windings?

Is it reduced ripple or harmonics? Does it have to die with the flux density, or field shape from the stator? Any references would help if you have them handy.

Thanks!

Hi, everyone. My potential suitor says he works night shifts and that he's an electrical engineer. I'm confused about whether he's telling the truth or possibly lying. Thanks in advance :)

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