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SFTV_troy <SFTV_troy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Phil Kane wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:24:02 -0700, SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> >- Do you know what VHDL is?
>> >- How about a state machine?
>> >- Synchronous DDR?
>> >- PCI Express?
>> >- Flip-flop?
>> >- What does GCLK mean in the context of FPGAs?
>> >- What are constraints?
>>
>>   That's not electrical engineering, that's computer science.
>
>
>And thus you make yourself sound like an idiot.  Hardware design is
>*not* computer science (aka programming).  ------  Besides my title is
>"Electrical Engineer".  Always has been, no matter where I worked.
>
>> >This is just a small sample of what I know, because this is what I
>> >work upon every day..... but I suspect a lot of it you have no clue
>> >what it's about.  And that's fine.  Because I don't expect one person
>> >to know everything there is to know about EE.
>>
>> Not to denigrate Penn State, but graduates of the major EE (as
>> differentiated from CS) schools are expected to be fluent in most if
>> not all areas of ELECTRICAL engineering.  ...

Phil,

Please define what you mean by fluent.  I'm not trolling; I would like
a serious answer.  This has actually been a topic of discussion in some
other forums.  I don't have an EE degree (I have bachelor's and
master's in CS), but my bachelor's degree required some EE classes.  I
had plenty of EE major friends, many of whom went on to EE-related
careers.

>That sounds like a denigration of Penn State.  They did teach me all
>the basics, but not the advanced stuff (like synchronous AM reception
>- whatever that is).  To expect me to know that is unrealistic.  And
>not fair to the profs at Penn State.  Every engineer has his or her
>own specialty.

I am inclined to agree with this.

--gregbo
gds at best dot com