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Wanderings in Electronics
Et Cetera
Mandar Gokhale
2005A3PS075G
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Perfect careers advice is
nonsense
No one can tell you
precisely, “Do this, get
that”
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Example Paths
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No content
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Systems
Digital Signal Processing
Control Systems
Wireless Networks
Mobile Networks
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What courses helped?
Math, Probability and Statistics
Computer programming I/II
Telecom Switching, DCN
Signals and Systems, Digital Signal
Processing
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What can I do?
“Do CDCs that you like comprehensively,
and not just for the exam”
“Read research articles from IEEE journals,
etc. for getting new ideas”
“Learn programming languages and
algorithms, specially as tools”
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Semiconductors
Computer Architecture
Digital Design
Semiconductor Devices
MEMS
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What courses helped?
Computer Programming
Probability and Statistics
Digital Design, Microprocessors
ADVD, EDIC, Microelectronics
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What can I do?
“ Learn tools like LaTeX, academic paper
indexing systems, etc. if you want to work in
academia.”
“Study algorithms in detail, a course on these
would help”
“Operating system design, storage systems”
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General advice
“ Try to do personal projects”
“Meet your project guide frequently”
“Write better reports in your courses”
“Follow what you want to do instead of
going for the highest-paying job”
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Some things you
can do today
(a.k.a Things I wish I knew at BITS)
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No, seriously.
Cooperate
Cooperate
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“Can anyone suggest me,
which is the best way to
convert MATLAB code into
C and why so?”
- Poster on a DSP group
Ask better questions
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“ I have some MATLAB code
that I want to convert to C
for [reasons]. What would be
the best way to go about
doing this?”
Ask better questions
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cut -f1 -d" " .bash_history |
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr |
head -n 30!
Learn the Unix way
find . –name *.pyc | xargs rm!
git checkout –b new-branch!
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Read Research
You are interested in a field.
Good.
Now read and completely
understand one current research
paper from that field
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Give feedback
Why does this suck?
How can I make this better?
This sucks.
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Questions?
(a.k.a Glad I’m not on stage, so you
can’t throw things)
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http://bits2world.blogspot.com
some more answers…