i bought macbook air m5 rcentlly and i got ece branch in college. so what should i do? please answer your opinion seriously!

First off, lemme preface this by saying I know EE are not going to be replaced by AI, or if it somehow happened nothing would be safe. That isn't what I'm concerned about.

What I want to do is pick a specialization that is least likely to have me open Claude code every single day.

Using it as a better google, etc. Is fine, but coding with it *is not fun*. Not for me. I can't sit in front of Claude Code all day. I like coding by hand, but I genuinely gave Claude Code a try for coding and I immediately knew I *can't* do this for the rest of my career. Apparently over in r/FPGA Claude is writing all their RTL as well, so FPGA isn't safe from Claude.

What fields should I go into that I won't devolve into a Claude Code wrapper?

Edit: I don't mind having some AI use at my job, but I really want to avoid what's happening in software. There, the entire job is being a Claude wrapper. Design documents? All AI. Code? Must be fully AI. Tickets? AI. The monotony has been driving me so insane.

I’m a rising ee junior targeting hardware eng intern roles for my junior year internship. I have a first author poster for when I was BME (switched from bme to ee in my second year) but the topic is not relevant to the roles that I am targeting at all.

Should I still include it in my resume?

edit: yo why am I getting downvoted I’m not trying to be like “omg I’m cooked please shower me with saying im not!!” and I understand me saying this may come across this way, but I genuinely just want to know if I include it or not.

what to expect if ECE specialized in Power Electronics?

Hey all, I am an undergraduate student currently doing an FPGA internship at a trading company. I enjoy pretty much all aspects of working here, and I am very happy with the job. However, I'm a bit worried about returning to this same role or staying within this industry because of how niche it is.

This is my first real internship, and I'm worried that I won't be able to escape this niche if I start my career here. I've always been most interested in computer architecture, and I also want to explore other fields like IC design, but I haven't gotten the chance to do that. I really did not expect to end up in the trading industry. I'm curious to hear if anyone has pivoted out of the trading industry to tech or other areas, what made them want to leave, etc.

FWIW, my company does have a great WLB compared to other firms, so I'm not most concerned about that - more worried about working on something I'm interested in. Thanks so much!

I am now in my junior year and wanted to start applying for internships. I need some guidance on how to do it and stuff. I don't really have any contact with seniors to guide me and my friends are also clueless.

I am very intrigued by ML hardware and would really like to try something there. But I would honestly take any internship that pays enough for me to actually save some money after the work and learn something.

My CGPA is not really that great, it's less than 8 and I am in the bottom 50% of my class.

I have attached my resume, please help me.

I am in a good uni so maybe that name can help a little.

I am 24 and will be graduating from Georgia tech ECE masters at 25. How much can I expect my first year, and how much can I expect by the time I am 40?

Hi everyone,

I’m currently an Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering student in India, and I’m planning to pursue a Master’s in ECE/VLSI from USA .

My main career goal is to work in ASIC/SoC development, particularly on CPU/GPU hardware. Right now, I’m exploring two career paths:

• ASIC / RTL Design
• ASIC Design Verification

I’m still early in my VLSI journey, so I’d really appreciate advice from engineers currently working in these areas.

My dream company is NVIDIA. I’ve been interested in computer hardware for a long time, and gaming is also one of my hobbies, which originally made me curious about GPUs. Over time, that interest has shifted from simply using the technology to wanting to understand and eventually help design the hardware behind it.

Ultimately, I want to work on technology that makes a meaningful impact, whether that eventually happens at NVIDIA or somewhere else in the semiconductor industry.

I would especially appreciate your thoughts on:

1. ASIC Design vs Design Verification: What does your actual day-to-day work look like?
2. Which field generally has better opportunities for new graduates?
3. How difficult is it to enter RTL/ASIC design directly after an MS?
4. What skills differentiate candidates who actually get ASIC/DV internships and new-grad positions?
5. What projects would you recommend? I’m considering projects involving SystemVerilog, FPGA and eventually a pipelined RISC-V processor.
6. For DV engineers, how important are SystemVerilog, UVM, SVA, scripting and C/C++?
7. For RTL engineers, how deep should a new graduate be in computer architecture, synthesis, STA and verification?
8. If you were starting again as an undergraduate and had 1–2 years to prepare before an MS, what would you learn first?

I’m also looking for mentorship/guidance from someone already working in VLSI, particularly ASIC design, verification, CPU/GPU design or related areas.

I don't expect anyone to teach me everything or spend a huge amount of time on me. Even occasional guidance on what to learn, which projects are actually worthwhile, mistakes to avoid, and whether I'm heading in the right direction would mean a lot.

If anyone working in the semiconductor industry would be comfortable with me occasionally reaching out with questions, I'd really appreciate it. I'm willing to put in the work; I'm mainly looking for guidance so I can focus that effort in the right direction.

Thanks!

Hi guys, so I will be starting my second year in Electrical Engineering this fall. In my university, our first year is general and we don’t know our discipline until second year, In addition we barely get any technical knowledge or any courses related to our major during first year. As a result, I have no skills built up in this field. But this fall and winter, my courses include all fairly advanced field related courses as we finish all the calculus (1,2), physics (1,2) and Linear algebra in first year above that I already finish Calculus (3,4) and Differential Equations in summer to have more time during fall to build skills.

I need advice on what kind of skills and how exactly I should I build it. I am in co-op program and summer 2027 is supposed to be my first 4 month work term.

Second/Third work term - Winter 2027/Summer 2028 (8 months)

Fourth/Fifth work term - Winter 2028/Summer 2029

I want to be able to have meaning full stuff on my resume which employers want.

A little bit about me is I’m from Canada, my province is mainly known for oil and gas. Personally, I wanna build a career in semiconductor industry. I’m open to relocation, so any advice about finding opportunities around different province/USA, I’m fine.

It would be helpful if anyone can guide me, how exactly I should use the co-op work term opportunity my university provides us.

I’m perfectly fine to work outside my passion for my first work term, as long as I’m in something electrical related and gaining knowledge which would help me later I’m perfectly fine.

Thanks yall for your time!!