what key skills required for a beginner as Embedded Engineer?

I have worked more than 8 years in this field and personally -for the sake of your career -  suggest that it is better not to start this field

anyway if you are stubborn and want to start kind of a job with low income and lots of effort here you go:

- programming C

- analog a little bit (some filters and resistor capacitor circuits)

- digital circuit as I assume you already had it in university

- basic math

- and the most important one: ENGLISH for READING and understanding datasheets

wish you the bests

PS:a taste of java and C# programming would be ideal for your next steps

Shahab, you have identified the one key element I forgot.

Learn good communication skills, reading, writing and most importantly, public speaking.

Many brilliant engineers fail because they cannot communicate effectively.  Having those skills will quickly place you at the top of your peers.

DAB

DAB wrote:

 

Shahab, you have identified the one key element I forgot.

 

Learn good communication skills, reading, writing and most importantly, public speaking.

Many brilliant engineers fail because they cannot communicate effectively.  Having those skills will quickly place you at the top of your peers.

This is a big irony of engineering education.  The fundamentals of engineering are mostly mathematical, so students who are good at math but hate writing are drawn to engineering programs where they spend almost all their classes doing applied math and never have to write anything.

Then they hit the Real World, where effective writing and oral communication are extremely important.  Some engineering programs have tried to increase the amount of writing, but it's usually contrived because the reality remains that the fundamentals are still largely mathematical.  Some programs require engineering students to take more humanities classes so they get more writing, but those classes usually do not speak to the condition of young engineers who haven't lived enough to appreciate Tom Jones or Moby ***.

No, I don't have a solution other than to tell Industry that if they want engineers who are able to write, hire PhDs.  After writing a dissertation, throwing together a good hardware spec is trivial.

DAB wrote:

 

Shahab, you have identified the one key element I forgot.

 

Learn good communication skills, reading, writing and most importantly, public speaking.

Many brilliant engineers fail because they cannot communicate effectively.  Having those skills will quickly place you at the top of your peers.

This is a big irony of engineering education.  The fundamentals of engineering are mostly mathematical, so students who are good at math but hate writing are drawn to engineering programs where they spend almost all their classes doing applied math and never have to write anything.

Then they hit the Real World, where effective writing and oral communication are extremely important.  Some engineering programs have tried to increase the amount of writing, but it's usually contrived because the reality remains that the fundamentals are still largely mathematical.  Some programs require engineering students to take more humanities classes so they get more writing, but those classes usually do not speak to the condition of young engineers who haven't lived enough to appreciate Tom Jones or Moby ***.

No, I don't have a solution other than to tell Industry that if they want engineers who are able to write, hire PhDs.  After writing a dissertation, throwing together a good hardware spec is trivial.

Hi John,

I learned this lesson very early in my career.  It turned out that my drawing skills were very useful on my very first project.

After that I found that I could make inroads with management by documenting failed engineering projects and make them work.

I was soon the goto guy for fixing projects.

Luckily, I was always into reading, and so the move to writing better was just a matter of practice.

Public speaking was the hard one, being a basic geek introvert, but I worked on my skills and became good at that also.

So contrary to the opponents of adding liberal arts courses to the technical curricula, I think they just need to be better crafted to the reading, writing and speaking skills that all technical people really need.

DAB