Hi, I'm a freshman EE undergrad student. I've never had any work experience at all, I have no experience and know nothing about engineering. The only tech related skills I have is programming with a few languages like Python. I don't know what the best way is to gain experience in engineering. I am just applying for retail jobs, nothing to do with my major. Should I start working on projects, or do I learn with a job or unpaid internship or something similar? I know I should probably just start doing something to create a portfolio, but I'm pretty confused. I don't even know if I enjoy engineering because I've never tried.

Hey everyone, I just started my freshman year of college, so forgive me if this sounds a bit too ambitious. I recently landed a Software Engineering (Application Development) internship in government. It’s an incredible opportunity, especially as a freshman, and I definitely want to take it.

However, I'm afraid this might 'lock' me into a purely software career path. I'm majoring in Electrical Engineering and want to explore hardware as well, not just software. Right now, looking at my resume, most of my high school and college coursework and my extracurriculars are software and CS-focused, which is likely how I landed this internship.

I feel a bit lost on what to do next. I’m taking my first hardware related class next semester (Digital Logic) and want to eventually become a hardware engineer. I feel like I need to start right now, pick a single path, and stick with it, but I'm not sure how to balance everything.

I'm a third-year Electrical Engineering student, and I just got offered a co-op position from an MEP consulting services company. I truly want to try out what different industries are like because I interned as a design engineer at an aerospace company last summer, and I learnt a lot about analog design and stuff. However, I kinda want to get the full experience of what it feels like when working in different industries before I graduate so I don't regret when just going all in for just one specific industry. That being said, my boss from the company I interned at last summer also offered me a spring part-time job (circuit design intern at an aerospace company). What would your advice be to me if I am just dumb for burning the bridge with the previous employer, or is it ok to try out different industries?

I am not asking for help with an assignment I just need this explained to me.

Ive been trying to understand how Thevenin's theorem works, I Know how to solve the problems but I want to know "why" we are doing what were doing.

My understanding so far is that the theorem basically states that we can take a complicated linear circuit and turn it into a simple circuit with a voltage source in series with a resistor, as long as the behavior at the terminals is the same. The way I've been trying to understand it so far is that in the Thevenin circuit if we apply KVL we get the voltage at terminals a and b to be Vab = Vth - IRth.

Then our goal is to find Vth and Rth to mimic the same voltage current relationship as the original circuit. Finding Vth is simple as in if we remove the external load our equation becomes Vab = Vth, therefore to find Vth from our original circuit we remove our load and calculate the voltage at the resulting terminals.

What I do not get is why the process of finding Rth is the way it is. (I think) Rth represents the equivalent resistance that the original circuit experiences at the terminals but why do we have to turn voltage sources into short circuits and current sources into open circuits? Furthermore when we have a dependent source why do we have to keep them if we are only worried about resistance?

this was my last resort thankyou to anyone who responds.

I want to learn PCB design, and I am planning to build a custom FPGA board as part of my graduation project

My problem is that, as a computer engineer, my department didn't give that many electronics courses, and each time I try to do something in KiCad, i git lost until I find someone on the internet who has built something similar

Will this book actually solve my problem? It's 1200 pages and will need a lot of effort

Most people say it's not a cover-to-cover read, but I find it useful to read some chapters fully