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The equipment also requires folks that know the in's and out's of engineering for the equipment. This can be as much of a bottle neck as finding the equipment

The equipment also requires folks that know the in's and out's of engineering for the equipment. This can be as much of a bottle neck as finding the equipment itself. There are many Universities that are running old equipment for the EE departments.

xxpor 5y ago
And yet we're complaining about having to know git internals in order to use it :)
analog31 5y ago
Why bother learning how to make hardware when you can make a better living writing software? </s>
- Spooky23 5y ago
  People don’t realize until it’s too late. A good friend from high school was a top engineer for some manufacturing process, which was abandoned after a buyout. He was laid off and now runs a Dunkin franchise.
- mfg4u 5y ago
  I don't think the /s is necessary. Many EE's go through much of the same coursework as CS students. For young EE's why would they go into the HW world when they could make so much more money working in SW. I am an EE and I am considering making the jump to SW as my daily workflow is already about 60% SW work.
  - analognoise 5y ago
    Yeah I was thinking the same, no /s is necessary.
  - ghaff 5y ago
    At the moment at least, you could probably say the same thing about all branches of engineering. Of course, some people just prefer doing non-software things but, as you say, they'll probably end up doing quite a bit of software anyway. (Which suggests that some sort of leveling almost has to take place unless we're OK just doing without new people going into other branches of engineering and science.
- intricatedetail 5y ago
  Heh I was looking at EE jobs as I have experience, but pretty much every job pays pittance totally not adequate to what you have to invest to learn this stuff.
waiseristy 5y ago
And all the consumables that were specially manufactured for the processes used by each specific machine. Good luck finding whatever esoteric solutions you have to dump into the thing to get it to work

xxpor 5y ago

And yet we're complaining about having to know git internals in order to use it :)

analog31 5y ago

Why bother learning how to make hardware when you can make a better living writing software? </s>

Spooky23 5y ago
People don’t realize until it’s too late. A good friend from high school was a top engineer for some manufacturing process, which was abandoned after a buyout. He was laid off and now runs a Dunkin franchise.
mfg4u 5y ago
I don't think the /s is necessary. Many EE's go through much of the same coursework as CS students. For young EE's why would they go into the HW world when they could make so much more money working in SW. I am an EE and I am considering making the jump to SW as my daily workflow is already about 60% SW work.
- analognoise 5y ago
  Yeah I was thinking the same, no /s is necessary.
- ghaff 5y ago
  At the moment at least, you could probably say the same thing about all branches of engineering. Of course, some people just prefer doing non-software things but, as you say, they'll probably end up doing quite a bit of software anyway. (Which suggests that some sort of leveling almost has to take place unless we're OK just doing without new people going into other branches of engineering and science.
intricatedetail 5y ago
Heh I was looking at EE jobs as I have experience, but pretty much every job pays pittance totally not adequate to what you have to invest to learn this stuff.

waiseristy 5y ago

And all the consumables that were specially manufactured for the processes used by each specific machine. Good luck finding whatever esoteric solutions you have to dump into the thing to get it to work