Please help, with mechatronics
01-19-2011 at 10:46 AM
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Mind you I only have but one negative thing to say about Mechatronics here, and its that (to my knowledge) we don't take any courses with the ECE department, and you'd think our circuit courses would be in the electrical engineering realm as opposed to Engineering physics. But besides that, its accredited so your pretty much learning what you should be learning.
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Wait till next year. You will be working with mircocontrollers year round and will gain a ton of experience. I know I am right now. Its 10000x better than second year. =D
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01-19-2011 at 01:27 PM
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Wait till next year. You will be working with mircocontrollers year round and will gain a ton of experience. I know I am right now. Its 10000x better than second year. =D
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Thats great to hear! I understand its important to learn the grity, sometimes boring theory first, I'm just glad to find out we actually end up applying it in third year!
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01-19-2011 at 02:22 PM
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i don't think it matters where you go, unless you brush up on your interview/people/english skills your not going to get a job, but if you can get into waterloo, w/o giving up too much go there, it has a better reputation.
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01-19-2011 at 02:33 PM
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How about you succeed at killing yourself instead of failing every time? Cries for help are lame.
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You mad, bro? 
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says thanks to herpderp for this post.
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01-19-2011 at 02:57 PM
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How about you succeed at killing yourself instead of failing every time? Cries for help are lame.
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Even to a guy like me, man, that's cold. |
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01-19-2011 at 04:12 PM
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i don't think it matters where you go, unless you brush up on your interview/people/english skills your not going to get a job, but if you can get into waterloo, w/o giving up too much go there, it has a better reputation.
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Um it's not the same for engineering...
We're not talking about an interview for a job as an animator or something..
To practice engineering in ontario, you musth have a P.eng diploma, that's not the undergrad diploma. That's the diploma you get after signing somepapers and doing 4 years of work experience.
If you got the co-op, (with waterloo), you already get a part of it done.
And with engineers jobs, you just have to know what you are doing. Social skills don't need to be skyhigh. |
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01-19-2011 at 04:49 PM
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And with engineers jobs, you just have to know what you are doing. Social skills don't need to be skyhigh.
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that is incorrect, you are always going to be a small part of a bigger puzzle, and if you hope to even think about a managerial position you need to be able to give the impression(refer to that other guys post where his fob friend could not get a job) that you are the boss.
I have several family members that are WORKING engineers, and they all have very good social skills (and they all have beamers if that interests ppl who still think some degrees aren't better than others) |
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01-19-2011 at 04:58 PM
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that is incorrect, you are always going to be a small part of a bigger puzzle, and if you hope to even think about a managerial position you need to be able to give the impression(refer to that other guys post where his fob friend could not get a job) that you are the boss.
I have several family members that are WORKING engineers, and they all have very good social skills (and they all have beamers if that interests ppl who still think some degrees aren't better than others)
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I have family members that are engineer, and they are very social. But as a matter of act, social skills are probably the easiest skills to bring up.
The matter of fact is, that you don't need to act like a movie star or something. You just gotta be able to communicate.
Take Bill Gates for example. When he was a university student, do you think he was a very social guy or a bossy one for that matter ?
What matters is if you are a Nerd or not. If you're one, people will work under you |
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01-19-2011 at 05:17 PM
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I have family members that are engineer, and they are very social. But as a matter of act, social skills are probably the easiest skills to bring up.
The matter of fact is, that you don't need to act like a movie star or something. You just gotta be able to communicate.
Take Bill Gates for example. When he was a university student, do you think he was a very social guy or a bossy one for that matter ?
What matters is if you are a Nerd or not. If you're one, people will work under you
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but he started his own company, forcibly making him the CEO. so unless you have some hidden entrepreneurial skills we dont know about, your going to have to go through an interview;people hire the best or what appears to be the best. |
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01-20-2011 at 08:21 AM
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If you got the co-op, (with waterloo), you already get a part of it done.
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Well Mac co-op would also count to provided it can be recognized as engineering work experience.
about the communication battle going: reminds me of first year when a certain 1p03 prof stressed that communication is key. 
"If you can't express your ideas, you may as well not have any".
Then again, you don't have to go writing soliloquy's or a sonnet to your interviewer about how you deserve a job. 
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