Engineer Survey - Help needed...

Hi,

My name is Marcus Gardner (Marcus Gardner) and together with Sam Fryman (Sam Fryman) we are working on a lecture series for use in the professional studies program of a final year electronics degree course. We are working with Premier Farnell to publish this lecture series on element14 and hope universities around the globe will find it useful. The lecture series is aimed at identifying the transferrable skills additional to your degree needed to progress one's career in electronics. We woud be very grateful if you could complete the short survey (link attached below). The survey covers questions such as what extra courses, programming languages etc did you learn, and where.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22B5TZ6WAU8

Many Thanks,

Marcus and Sam

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jfurness

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1. Sep 7, 2010 4:16 AM (in response to mjlgardner1)
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Thanks Marcus, filled in the survey, hope this helps, some interesting questions, let us know how the results go, I'd be interested to hear where others fo to for further transferrable skills.
Jamie

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WendyBourne

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2. Sep 7, 2010 5:17 AM (in response to mjlgardner1)
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Hi Marcus,

Happy to contribute, although my results might be a little odd as I didn't start in the Electronics Industry. If you need any help with our connectors, just let us know - we have supported a few student projects before.

Good Luck!

Wendy

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3. Sep 8, 2010 2:52 AM (in response to mjlgardner1)
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Thanks for filling in the survey! Any help is much appreciated! The more data i can get my hands on the better! Thanks again!

Marcus

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4. Sep 8, 2010 3:49 AM (in response to mjlgardner1)
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Hello,

I filled in your survey but I feel it suggests that you take a very narrow view of skills and what might make a good engineer.
Specific software packages are pretty much irrelevant - they can be learned quite quickly.
For example: designing a good pcb layout requires a high level of aptitude and experience which will take years to acquire. The transition between using different software packages should be a matter of a few days.
I would be far more interested in what a new graduate had achieved in their own project work and how they had set about getting the knowledge required to complete it.

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5. Sep 8, 2010 4:02 AM (in response to michaelkellett)
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Hi,

The aim of the survey is to find out what skills experienced engineers have and how they acquired them. The information will be used to help fresh graduates and students who are at the beginning of their engineering careers. It is by no means suggesting that just by reading a few books will make you into a good engineer, obviously a large amount of experience is needed. However this information will provide a stepping stone on which students and fresh graduates can use to start off their career. Many companies hiring fresh graduates or students on work placements require a certain level of programming ability in a particular language, software experience or additional skills to help them learn and progress faster within the company.

Marcus

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6. Sep 8, 2010 1:10 PM (in response to mjlgardner1)
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Hello, I filled out your survey. The very best advice I can give is to think outside of the box. be open and creative and willing to push boundaries. I wish you the best.

David Cook
Mech. Design Engineer. XP Power

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7. Sep 10, 2010 4:05 AM (in response to davidcook)
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Thank you for the advice David, i'll be sure to take it into account!

Marcus

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