Has anyone used MacBooks for their undergrad studies in EE in the last few years?

If so, what has your experience been?

I really want to stay in the Apple ecosystem so I’m thinking about purchasing a MacBook Air M4 with 24gb of RAM before school starts.

I know there are limitations with certain softwares but are VMs good enough to get around them?

Thanks so much for the advice!!

Ignition coil with ballast resistor (1.7ohm), 5 pin relay, 12V battery, proximity switch and 12V motor with a hex nut to trigger the proximity switch.

Title - I’m an incoming freshman studying electrical engineering. Please and thank you!!

Im on my second year of my bachelor's right now and a project lead for IEEE at my school, what is the best advice that you can give?

I was looking at past career fairs and saw that SJSU has much more/better companies going to career fairs than SCU.

I thought SCU was a feeder to top companies in Silicon Valley but it seems its career fair is lacking.

Was it all just marketing/hype or is SCU actually well respected.

SCU = Santa Clara Uni

SJSU = San Jose State

FYI: Me and my friend both checked handshake he goes to SJSU and me to SCU and his career fair was stacked compared to SCU. Both of us are EE

I was just given news I didn’t get the internship that I interviewed for. Interview went awesome I thought. The only thing they said was the lack of autocad experience. I have experience in multiple other cad softwares including solidworks, which is harder than autocad in my opinion. Is it really that competitive? How do I market myself to let these interviewers know that this stuff is really damn easy for me, and not having experience in a specific software (that I could learn in a couple days, beyond what they probably use it for) shouldn’t be a reason to pick someone else?

I’m trying and failing to not take this personally! I’ve been jaded in this job market ever since I was laid off, a few months prior to deciding to go get a degree in EE.

I'm a second year EE student going into my sophomore year third semester. Because of unfortunate circumstances I have to retake phys 2 which set back my classes by a lot. Retaking phys 2 forced me to take gen eds that I would only take later and I'm stuck with the problem of not having enough credits to be considered full time next semester. I thought that using one of my tech electives would be smart so I could take linear algebra but I'd still be missing some credits. So I thought I'd just pursue a minor in math since I'm good at it but I just don't know if it's worth it. Im still in my second year and I might concentrate in either power or control systems. I take any advice really.

im a first year electrical eng student at a pretty prestigious university in north america. my fall semester last year was pretty tough. i managed to scrape by but then in my 2nd semester my study habits got very flimsy, was feeling super burnt out, mental health was declining, which in result had me to repeat the entire 2nd semester. the rule for my uni is if you fail more than 2 courses, you have to repeat the semester. this not only delayed my grad by a year, but overall derailed my journey of graduating on time with my other peers.

what kills me the most is that only 2-3 students in my class ended up in the same situation as me. which means chances of me failing would have been quite low, but i still managed to hit rock bottom. some advisors told me to
consider looking at other eng, but i really feel committed to my current one and am currently pushing through. i just finished 3 out of my 7 courses during the summer semester and will be back again in the fall with the new freshmen

overall, my morale seems to not be getting any better. maybe this is the result of being a high achiever throughout my life until university. maybe this won’t seem like a big deal after i finally graduate, but right now i feel i don’t belong in my class at all :,)

I am trying to change an old (40yrs) roller transport paper processor from its old Shaded pole motor to a variable DC motor so I can control the speed in which paper will process. I'm trying to emulate this old video but my processor is slightly different so I'm a bit stuck. My initial question is, am I replacing the whole (circled in white) unit connected to the pulley and belt? Or only parts, as I’m not familiar with this motor and the electrical components attached to it.. Let me know if there's another subreddit that would be best for this. thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUrH1isRBUM

Edit: corrected motor type

I’m a college student studying EE that loves to tinker and make things. For example, I spent the last 2 years building ground and satellite sensors. I’m thinking of investing in a 3D printer in the next few months for personal projects.

Has anyone done this?

Do you have any cost effective and quality machines you recommend?

What else should I think about investing in materials for personal projects?

Thank you so much in advance

I have an undergrad degree in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee and am looking to get a masters in EE.

Curious if anyone has any advice about bridging/pre masters programs, primarily in the US as from what I can tell these programs don’t usually offer visas in the EU.

Also, I’m currently in the first year of an EE HBO bachelors in the Netherlands, so by the time I would start a bridging program fall ‘27, I’ll have more of a foundation (calculus, physics, programming, etc)

Any advice is appreciated!

im a first year ece student . Before jumping into any specific domain,What are the most important basics I should learn first?. for ex mathematics , basic electronics, programing etc .

Is there a common foundation that will make it easier to explore different ECE domains later? Also, what would you recommend learning during the first year?

As the title says, I feel like I don’t want to go the technical route when I graduate so I’m thinking of sales or something similar where technicality isn’t the focus.

Hi guys, i'm not an engineer, just a technician. For the longest time i have had trouble getting an intuitive grasp around the basics of circuits: voltage, capacitors, inductors, etc. Then i read about the Force-Voltage mechanical analogy and suddenly it all made sense: Charge being analogous displacement, current to velocity, voltage to force, capacitor to spring, inductor to inertial mass, resistor to friciton/dampener. Suddenly the behaviour of the components made intuitive sense.

Then i read about the Force-Current analogy, and now i am lost again. Current acting as a force? Voltage as velocity? Magnetic Flux as displacement? Capacitance as mass? I am lost again.

Does that analogy make sense? Is there an intuitive way to understand it?

It is my understanding as per BS 7671 that metalwork is either an exposed consecutive part or an extraneous metallic part, not both.

If it's exposed, it typically gets a CPC. If it's extraneous, it typically gets an equipotential bond.

E.g., exposed metal casing of an electrical appliance gets a cpc. Metal pipe or steelwork gets an equipotential bond.

Is there ever a scenario where something would get both a CPC and an equipotential bond (as in the two as separate connections)?

What about in a substation?

Please suggest any working hardware circuits for an AM transmitter which works at 800kHz. I tried few circuit designs with 555 timer and opamp it works perfectly in simulation but in real hardware I couldn't get the desired output. It is okay if the circuit is transistor and LC tank based too.

So I am currently in my undergrad last semester from a third world country. I'd like to pursue my masters degree abroad with aids and scholarships. So as i was about to explore options (yup the visa problem is acknowledged) we are required to pick our elective courses for the next semester. My undergrad thesis is in the field of implantable antenna design but i haven't worked much on it yet. And I'm also unsure if i want to continue with implantable antenna in my masters. I'm a bit interested in embedded systems but i just have a quite medium level project on smart access control system implementing esp32 with a web server to grant any requested access with live streaming along with a manual password rfid card access and probably a position on our departments line follower car competition. However the elective course situation needs to be sorted first. I'm attaching my available options below.

There's 3 different pools from which we need to pick 1 each, where the 1st pool comes with sessional courses. The theory courses are themselves 3 credits each. I'd really appreciate any kind of recommendations you have regarding the elective courses selection. TIA

A. Pool 1 (theory along with sessional)

1. High Voltage Transmission Systems

2. Biomedical Signals, Instrumentation and Measurements

3. Optical Fiber Communication

4. Radar and Satellite Communication

B. Pool 2 (only theory)

1. Smart Grids

2. Photovoltaic System Design

3. Multimedia Communication

C. Pool 3 (only theory)

1. Power System Operation and Control

2. Wireless Communication

3. Compound Semiconductor Devices

I'm on my 3rd job. I started off at my first job 3 years ago and despised it completely. I left within 10 months and landed another role for about 20 months and didn't get a raise so I started looking elsewhere.

I just started my 3rd job and am going to stay 2 years at the minimum, but am concerned about the same thing happening. Sometimes a subfield which might have seemed interesting turns out to be miserable, or maybe I run into a case of the 2nd job where I get literally zero raises or promotions.

I get that I'm supposed to show some loyalty, but I'm not really willing to abuse myself that much. At my 2nd role, I knew senior engineers there with 10+ years of experience making sub-100k in a HCOL area. It's just ridiculous.

Has anyone gone through an internship interview with Eaton before? I recently had a phone screening with them and felt pretty confident about it so I’m interested to know what to expect in the actual interview. This is for a power systems intern role.

This a simple chat bot i built, which responds to Jarvis.

It built in a complicated way, and its not quite smart, BUT, you can have conversations with it.

I am building a circuit where the motor (represented by 1kOhm resistor) is controlled by a 5V signal. The given circuit functions properly, however when comparing to other H-Bridges I saw on the internet I noticed some differences and am thinking is there something wrong here?

Hi I'm in an undergrad processor architecture class that's covering risc cpus and I was wondering what part of the architecture in arm cortex cpus make them more power efficient than a typical x86 cpu like your Intel and amd chips. I asked my professor and he more or less told me that it's how arm based processors use a combination of 16b and 32b instruction sets vs x86 using all 32b instructions but just wanted a bit more clarification and explanation on the topic. Thanks!

https://github.com/Tech-athirst/electronics/tree/main/New_flappy_bird the design

For my senior project I am working on a basketball electric wheelchair. I mainly am on the power system side and how we are providing power to the system. I have a rough outline for what the power system needs to do to power it properly and have added in a zener snubber to mitigate some back emf to the battery as it can only handle 4-6A going into it for charging. Here is a super rough draft of the power system, is there anything that comes to anyones mind that I may be missing for the main power supply to the two motors? I haven't sized my diodes or resistors yet as I wanted to see if there is something detrimental that I am missing before calculating those values to mitigate the back emf.

Rough Draft Below, any advice seriously welcomed!