🚀 go-pugleaf

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.  ...

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'm registered as a PE (Electrical) in four states... I am also
> licensed to practice law in all California and Federal courts

Wow.  I'm impressed.

I passed the E.I.T. exam back in 1998, but never bothered to register
P.E. because I don't see any value in it.  I'm still getting paid $55
an hour, and having a P.E. after my name is not going to drive that
Rate any higher.

Same with a Masters Degree.  If I thought there was value in having
those, then I would go ahead and acquire them, but so far they've been
not necessary.

So how do you like law?

I was thinking about going back to earn a law degree (since I'm bored
with engineering).