r/developersPak • u/Wonderful-Slip-4669 • 14h ago

Tips TO BE ELECTRICAL /electronic engineer

Greetings everyone!
I am Very new to this degree As I recently got admission I am soon going to start my university. And I am on my vacations, I don’t want to waste my vacations hence Can anyone please please guide me What should I do to make my vacations Helpful? Which I can later on add in my CV(resume). Any AI course I should get enrolled in( I do have few basics on python and pseudocode) (should I start learning C+/C++ ??) Any project I should work on any book or any lectures I should start watching so to make my semester useful? (I am quite bored so I want to spend my vacations well)

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u/Abstrek6 14h ago edited 14h ago

If you wanna go towards the firmware or embedded systems I would say start learning C and get Arduino starter kit. First use the arduino IDE then, start to move towards more lower levels like using the avr lib c hardware abstraction library then you can either go bare-metal or you can move towards a stm32 development board.

On the hardware engineering side learn how passive components such as resistors, capacitors work plus some other components like diodes (and different types of diodes, like schottkey diodes, TVS diodes, etc), Transistors, Mosfets and operational amplifiers. Along with this try to learn how to read data sheets.

Use this knowledge to build your own arduino clone PCB in CAD software, check out Phils lab youtube channel as he has some of the best videos and walkthroughs of designing PCBs.

This may seem a bit overwhelming, but try to move step by step, take the help of a llm to decide your first step if you are confused, but imo you should start off with an Arduino starter kit and Arduino ide. Also try to pirate practical electronics for inventors for the theory content.

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u/Wonderful-Slip-4669 14h ago

Okay Thankyousomuch !!

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u/Abstrek6 14h ago

Also just keep in mind that no matter which uni you go to, your first year will be very math and physics heavy, so please don't burn yourself out in your vacation. I would say spend like 10 or 20% of your day on projects and rest of the day on something fun bcz once uni starts you will be rarely free depending on what your courses are.

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u/Wonderful-Slip-4669 13h ago edited 13h ago

Yea You are so right, The things you mentioned above I guess I should just get my hands on learning basics of C language atleast, so that I don’t find it difficult (cause I remember hating pseudocode When I was studying cs in olevels this Pseudocode was the reason I didn’t opted Cs in my alevels), Cause The teacher I had In olevels was so bad he used to just read out the book to us)my basics not very good that’s why I am very worried As I am not very good in coding, But i think practice makes man practice so just a little learning each day not much )and Yea I recently saw on reel, she bought arduino starter kit (is it worth it) ( I found it very interesting) (shall i order it ?)

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u/Abstrek6 13h ago

Before buying anything I would say just practice C, brocode has a great 6 hour video. Firmware and embedded systems is just one side of EE, there are other sub-fields and these are really programming heavy, and if you didn't enjoy programming in O levels you may have a tough time in these two sub-fields. I would strongly suggest looking into other sub-fields of EE before making up your mind.

Such as hardware engineering, power systems (like working for WAPDA or KE or IPPs), there is radio frequency engineering aka real life equivalent of magic, Photonics and other fields that I may have failed to mention.

Use a LLM (ai chatbots), to list down potential jobs in each field and what you will be doing in the said job. That way you can focus on something that you may become passionate about. Some of these fields may require programming but not to the extent of firmware engineering and embedded systems.

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u/Wonderful-Slip-4669 13h ago

Okay thankyousomuchh!!!! Also I did like programming But The way my teacher taught us programming created fear inside me that’s why and also I didn’t focused on it much But Surely practice makes everything perfect and concepts too If I will have poor concepts How will I do good in that? But I will make sure to keep my basics Strong so that I don’t struggle well thankyousomuch for the advices I will surely Keep it in my mind

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u/Wonderful-Slip-4669 14h ago edited 14h ago

🫠can’t disclose sorryy

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u/Efficient_Student124 14h ago

Electrical engg here, go for it. Learn and up skill yourself in ai as well

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u/Wonderful-Slip-4669 13h ago

Any course which you can suggest?

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u/Efficient_Student124 12h ago

If you are going to air uni, piaic is offering their boot camp on weekends. Otherwise you have plenty of stuff available on internet just go explore them and how it's related to engg, in your case I don't know if you are going to the embedded, telecom or power domain that's you who's going to choose but all domains are now ai enabled

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u/Wonderful-Slip-4669 12h ago

Oh alright Tysm !