Wanderings in Electronics Et Cetera

A talk that I gave to the BITS Alumni Association at BITS Goa.

Transcript

1. Wanderings in Electronics Et Cetera Mandar Gokhale 2005A3PS075G
2. Perfect careers advice is nonsense No one can tell you precisely, “Do this, get that”  
3. Example Paths
5. Systems Digital Signal Processing Control Systems Wireless Networks Mobile Networks
6. What courses helped? Math, Probability and Statistics Computer programming I/II Telecom Switching, DCN Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing
7. 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”
8. Semiconductors Computer Architecture Digital Design Semiconductor Devices MEMS
9. What courses helped? Computer Programming Probability and Statistics Digital Design, Microprocessors ADVD, EDIC, Microelectronics
10. 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”
11. 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”
12. Some things you can do today (a.k.a Things I wish I knew at BITS)
13. No, seriously. Cooperate Cooperate
14. “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
15. “ 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
16. 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!
17. Read Research You are interested in a field. Good. Now read and completely understand one current research paper from that field
18. Give feedback Why does this suck? How can I make this better? This sucks.
19. Questions? (a.k.a Glad I’m not on stage, so you can’t throw things)
20. http://bits2world.blogspot.com some more answers…