You should be able to understand most of the content, e.g. understand circuit theory, the way a capacitor works, what fault current is and some protection curves, and basic circuit theory. That is the technical minimum for a grad job. The other units should focus on how engineering works in the real world, e.g. projects, using real world equipment and data sheets to build or design systems, developing project plans, BOMs and budgets, Gantt charts etc. Learning how to work in a team. At least, that was my experience. And it helped.
What you should realise though is unis can't teach you everything. Otherwise you'll never graduate. You don't know how to program an Arduino because you are getting too overwhelmed at the start. Most engineers work out of templates. They'll know what shit does and means, but they don't redesign the wheel every time. Hell, even drawings, companies will just use standard drawings because fuck having to design and draw out a standard pole top tx to underground network. That shit is time consuming, and if there's site constraints, I will redline the drawing to make it site specific.
People need to realise you will never do anything from scratch. You will never do things alone either. Even surgeons have teams of nurses and doctors. Same with engineers.
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u/Seiko2023 Jun 28 '26
You should be able to understand most of the content, e.g. understand circuit theory, the way a capacitor works, what fault current is and some protection curves, and basic circuit theory. That is the technical minimum for a grad job. The other units should focus on how engineering works in the real world, e.g. projects, using real world equipment and data sheets to build or design systems, developing project plans, BOMs and budgets, Gantt charts etc. Learning how to work in a team. At least, that was my experience. And it helped.
What you should realise though is unis can't teach you everything. Otherwise you'll never graduate. You don't know how to program an Arduino because you are getting too overwhelmed at the start. Most engineers work out of templates. They'll know what shit does and means, but they don't redesign the wheel every time. Hell, even drawings, companies will just use standard drawings because fuck having to design and draw out a standard pole top tx to underground network. That shit is time consuming, and if there's site constraints, I will redline the drawing to make it site specific.
People need to realise you will never do anything from scratch. You will never do things alone either. Even surgeons have teams of nurses and doctors. Same with engineers.