electrical-engineering

Electrical Engineer into SW

Hi All, I recently graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and gained a lot of interest in embedded systems in both hardware and software. When I got out of school I got a job as an entry level Software Engineer in embedded systems. Having experience with robot projects and several internships helped prove I was not entirely new...

Do you have advice for a Computer Science Graduate looking to get into Hardware?

I'm a CS graduate and I've been in the field for 10 years now. Hardware has interested me from day 1, in fact, I am one course shy of a minor in Electrical Engineering. Now I've gotten to the point where I want to move more towards hardware and custom curcuit board development than I have in the past. The faculty of Engineering want m...

Well-rounded experience in programming = Multiple B.S. degrees?

I have a degree in Computer Information Systems (learned high-level programming, database/network stuff, minimal math, minimal science, with lots of business application focus). Now I'm sitting in a job where I realize that a background in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering would have been amazingly useful in order to support pr...

what language should an EE major learn?

I want to know which language should I learn or reinforce so that i won't be caught off-guard. Let's assume that I'm an Electrical Engineer major and i want to go into the field of Power Systems ( Electric Power Engineering). Also, how can i become really good at using labVIEW. ...

Is there a product development model for an stand alone embedded programmer?

I have more than 5 years experience working on embedded programming on several architectures and micro-controllers for different companies, so I feel confident about my skills. All the experience is on a corporate environment where there are a bunch of electrical engineers designing something and I am with them concurrently taking care ...

As a CS major, should I take more EE courses?

I have taken enough cs courses to know that I'm not interested in hardware. I'm much more interested in programing for the web. Now, I'm nearing the end of my degree, and I'm presented with the option to take some higher level EE courses than the intro I took freshman year. Are there any real-world-job-boosting reasons I should take m...

Help with odd number dividers (digital)

I am reading this: http://www.onsemi.com/pub_link/Collateral/AND8001-D.PDF On page three, the logic equations is given for the divide-by 9 DFF circuit. How do I obtain the equations through k-maps? I know to use k-maps, but I dont know what and how they are filling the k-maps with to obtain: Ad = A*B* Bd = A*B + AB* Cd = ABC* + CB*...

Electrical Engineering online courses

Hello, Can you direct me to any online free resources like MIT's Opencourseware for Electrical Engineering ? Best regards, Mike ...

Blackwidow and Yellowjacket (Arduino)

Any luck using the Arduino Blackwidow or the Yellowjacket. I can't find much information online about them in terms of reviews. I would like to connect to a wireless router, send small POST requests pertaining to resistances that have been read and receive responses in JSON format that would be instructions on switches that should be f...

Free resources to learn computer (electrical?) engineering?

First, I just returned from DEFCON 18 and I am completely inspired to learn more about hardware. For example, how do I add LEDs to the badge? (http://www.grandideastudio.com/portfolio/defcon-18-badge/) How do I learn how to read the schematic and understand what I can do with it? I checked out some computer engineering books on Amazon,...

electrical machines

what is the basic difference between 3 point starter and 4 point starter? ...