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Question of Month: Advice for young engineers wanting to expand their knowledge?

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pchan over 1 year ago

e14 Question of the Month

New graduates, budding engineers or early career professionals can benefit from some sound career advice by experienced engineers. But what advice is the best to give them? Vote in this poll to tell the community what you think is the best advice to give young engineers.

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  • kmikemoo
    kmikemoo over 1 year ago +3
    While we all want to say "All of the above", you don't know what you don't know - and the communities help address that.
  • dougw
    dougw over 1 year ago +2
    Doing projects at home allows you to keep to to date on useful industry trends, regardless of whether your company happens to need this for its product development. If you get too specialized, your career…
  • michaelkellett
    michaelkellett over 1 year ago +1
    I voted for 'Read electronics design publications' but really its all of them. Definitely you should spend as much time as you can picking the brains of other people. I think that one of the huge disadvantages…
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  • dougw
    dougw over 1 year ago

    Try hard to stay abreast of trends in the industry, especially try hard to get ready for the ubiquitous impacts of AI and metaverses.

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    DAB over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

    This is an important part of being an engineer.

    At my peak, I was reading 60 technical journals a month.

    It took a lot of time, but it kept me up to date on what was available.

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    dougw over 1 year ago in reply to DAB

    Before the Internet, I was receiving a stack of snail mail about 1 foot high every day. I find it hard to comprehend now, how I got through it all every day, even though I remember staying a few hours late every day just to read mail.

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    DAB over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

    Yes, it was essential to keep up with the mail.

    Now that I am retired, I get very little mail.

    I do not miss it.

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  • DAB
    DAB over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

    Yes, it was essential to keep up with the mail.

    Now that I am retired, I get very little mail.

    I do not miss it.

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