I work with a couple of good analog cats, but we have a saying that we are the dinosaurs of our time...most of us over 60 and getting ready to kick back and enjoy the dollars we put into the retirement fund, never knowing that some day we would actually use it.
The problem is chicken and egg...back when we were going to school in the
50s and 60s, analog was all the rage. Every engineering department worth its salt had a ham club and everyone from sophomore year on up had built their own tube amp for the newfangled stereo gig. Stereo back in those days was the computer geek of today...hammering together this turntable with that tape deck, ultralinear 6146s (or 807s if you were poor) in the final and speaker cabinets (remember Karlson enclosures??) that needed a forklift to place properly. We all came out of there with a lot of analog and a little tiny bit of digital.
Then the computer took over and the old analog professors were shunted aside in favor of those who spoke binary as a native language. Analog was shunted aside until those who were destined to become professors at that college never knew the joy of building micropower transmitters or who learned which end of the soldering iron got hot. If you've got no analog talent on staff, you won't turn out any talented analog students.
My advice? Go down the list of ham radio licensees and when you get to one that says: "Trustee for the XYZ University Amateur Radio Club" call up the engineering department of XYZ and ask them who the faculty advisor for the ham club is. Odds are you will get silence or "Oh, that club folded years ago" as the answer. If you actually find a working club, talk to the faculty advisor and ask how many students are in the club. If there are a dozen or more, you've at least found yourself a prospective school.
My guess is that you won't find enough to count on both hands.
Jim
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"If you think you can, or think you can't, you're right."
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"Joerg" wrote in message
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> Hello Folks,
>
> Happens a lot these days, last time an hour ago: Someone is looking for an
> analog/mixed signal engineer (this time low power design).