OT: What do you do for a living & how did you get there?

infamis · 2006-02-17T19:25:22+00:00

Only if it's involved with embedded systems. What is your job, or what are your "duties", and what type of education did you get? Self-trained, college & your major, internships you may have taken along the way, etc...I'm trying to see the different paths people have taken from their interest in embedded systems.Lastly, are you happy? Do you regret anything & if so, why?

Feb 17, 2006 21 Replies

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Tim Wescott 20 years ago

In many ways it is, and I see lots of interesting and practical control solutions coming out of universities -- it just doesn't seem that way when I read the IEEE publications.

More than one of my favorite profs kept 'consultant' as one of the titles in their portfolios of jobs -- they were probably my favorites because they were grounded in reality, come to think of it.

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Mark Borgerson 20 years ago

I started teaching computer science as a university instructor at age

For that job, the only requirement was a Master's degree in something (one of the best senior instructors had a degree in Botany, IIRC). I lasted three years until I got another full-time embedded software job at about 3 times the salary.

The demands of teaching do greatly limit your time available for interesting research. For this reason, a lot of PhD professors don't really like teaching very much.

Mark Borgerson

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