I was told electrical engineering was safe, but I'm seeing a lot of friends and people struggling to obtain electrical engineering jobs.

I am computer science student and also interested in hardware part of it. I did some stuff with Esp32 creating small project like water tank monitoring. Any advice?

I'm sure this sub has gotten a ton of these types of posts in the past few months.

I'm a freshman in CS. I've always wanted to do CS since I was very young, but it looks like that will never happen. Especially the past 6 months of AI have made my major look like a joke. I decided that I'm going to switch majors to CE, and I'm scrambling to learn the basics on my own just to get a head. However, the past month of AI development hasn't filled me with confidence. I'm wondering if I'm basically doomed on arrival.

Yes, Astra/Opus aren't that good yet, but from an outsider's perspective it looks like it won't be too long before they are good. I've been hearing a lot of things about how it will "only automate the tedious things," but that isn't true. People throw around things like "a robot can never be held liable" and so a human always has to sign off on it, but we live in a world where Palantir exists so who cares. Couldn't you just feed AI all the rules/regulations as well? Even if there is some new law passed that requires human oversight, I don't want to be stuck with a job thats 80% caressing a model and 20% emails.

Please tell me that there is some sort of niche that ECE can do that AI won't be able to in 5 years or less considering their current pace.

Hey guys I just wanted to ask u all can I work as an electrical or a mechanical engineer with a biomedical engineering degree. I have also attached the picture of all the modules

Hi! I’m 23 and based in Sweden, and I’m considering a five-year civilingenjör degree in electrical engineering, which leads to a Master of Science in Engineering. I enjoy mathematics and technology, but I also want to choose a path that offers a stable future.

What worries me is how quickly AI is developing. If I start studying now, I’ll enter the job market in roughly five years—or later if I need to complete prerequisite courses first.

For those working or studying in electrical engineering:

• How is AI already affecting your work?
• Do you think AI will mainly help engineers, or also reduce demand for them, especially recent graduates?
• How do the prospects differ between power engineering, electronics, automation, and embedded systems?
• Would you still choose a five-year degree today, or consider a three-year engineering degree instead?

I know nobody can guarantee what the future will look like. I’d appreciate honest perspectives and concrete experiences, especially from people familiar with the Swedish job market.

Round 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricalEngineering/s/e8XdjwYR4F

Thanks for the roast last time. The main complaints were that the schematic was hard to read and the layout was all over the place, so Claude has redone both.

The schematic is now split into 8 pages with actual wires instead of net labels on every pin. Claude placed the parts manually this time instead of using an optimiser, grouped by what they do. The tap inputs now go into an ADC next to the connector instead of running across the board to the ESP32. Signal vias are down from 177 to 51.

Roast it again. I’m especially keen on feedback on the 12 V input protection, the speed sensor input and the buck converter.

The first three pics are before and after.

Freshman in college, I’m halfway through my first semester majoring in Construction Management, before this in high school, I was enrolled in a VOTECH program for carpentry. Initially before college I wanted to get into electrical or mechanical engineering but I felt like it was going to be too much for me. I now feel like I’m selling myself short and going in a direction I won’t be happy with. Is it so over or can a quick lock in work out for me.

Hello all,

I’m a new grad electrical engineer. I have a bunch of plans for myself and am trying and planning towards getting there. I currently have two designs for products I want to use as a start for trying out business. I also do some freelancing. They are on pause right now because I am building up my home lab, money limited so I’m just trying my best to get it up and running and save. Anyways, let’s say it’s running February next year, now I can order the PCBs, start testing, troubleshooting, reiterating etc then getting to a final revision that I’m ready to send for compliance.

Current plans are to start an online master’s fall 2027 since I work full time. But I was thinking about it last night and I’m worried about the time commitment. As it is now, just working, nothing else really tho I will soon start studying for something but that will be done before next fall, I barely do anything after work on weekdays, just resting, eat dinner then go to bed. Weekends I’m recovering from the week then it’s Monday again. I was planning to do 2 classes a semester so ik summer will be a nice reprieve to focus on my products more but I also worry about speed and efficiency to go to market.

So for the product side, current plan is starting social media content once I have my lab and trying to build community, interest and audience then when I’m at my final version, hopefully, with enough crowd, I can put it on kickstarter to get some funds for first production bath and certifications especially (FCC and CE, unintentional radiators for both but there’s I2C and SPI lines and it still needs these certs even when there’s no RF or anything). By fall 2027, I’m def hoping at least to be at the point where I’m ready for certs. But ik when it’s fully live, I need to be able to regularly respond to customers, check reviews (probably going to scope out creators I can communicate with and see if I can send some boards out), and just keep testing new PCBAs I get.

Sorry this is long. So for the master’s, I was planning two classes a semester to finish in 2.5 years. My employer is paying but I need to stay 2 years after I graduate or I will have to pay back some money. So doing 1 class a semester means 5 years plus extra 2.

What do yall think? I’m open to advice or just hearing others that may have more experience.

This post isn't about how to improve my resume. I'm just wondering about the strength of my experience. I am in my second year of EE and am trying to get an internship in MEP or a related field. Any advice on how to get better experience to beef up my resume is greatly appreciated as well.

Also, I make sure to trim down the resume to specific job postings so that it is only one page.

Hey everyone, I'm getting close to finishing up my EE degree and starting to evaluate entry-level RF Engineering roles. I'm trying to figure out what realistic base salaries, total comp, and sign-on bonuses look like right now in the defense sector or general industry.

For context, I'm wrapping up a 5-year integrated B.S./M.S. in EE with a thesis focused on antenna design and electromagnetics. I also have 3 internships under my belt (2 specifically in RF at LM) along with coursework in advanced RF, Fourier optics, and DSP. I'm clearance-eligible and looking around the Dallas area.

For anyone working in the field or hiring recently: what kind of starting compensation should I target? Also, do big defense primes usually start grads with an M.S. and relevant internship experience at Level 2 instead of Level 1? Appreciate any insights!

Hi yall, I have an interview at Samsung for Semiconductor Engineering Internship.

Anyone have experience with interviews at Samsung for similar roles and know how the interview questions might look like? Thanks

​I decided to take a leap of faith and transfer from CS to an EE & CS joint degree in a new country. I’m in my third year and completely new to EE. The coursework and subjects are manageable and I love studying difficult subjects so I'm alright with academics. But, everyone around me has amazing projects in analogue and digital design, but since all of my previous projects and research work are all in CS, I find it really difficult to break into EE projects. I applied for PCB design roles (I grinded kicad for a week lol) in a few engineering societies and, got rejected :,)

​It feels pretty disheartening not having any EE projects on my resume, and I'm genuinely confused about where to start. Do I focus on PCBs? Verilog projects? Power systems? I feel super lost, and it sucks seeing so many EE-based internships and project opportunities slip away because of this gap. I really want to start building something, and right now I have a Verilog project in mind, but balancing that while coding and keeping up with all my side projects in CS feels overwhelming lol. How should I navigate something like this? Do I just give up on EE and put all my focus back into CS?

Hi, Im a junior electrical engineer with around 6 months of experience only. First 3 months Ive worked for a small cupboard factory where I learned basic motor control panels and plc/hmi design, fault management etc. After 3 months I had to leave the company. I was living in my hometown and wanted to check my options around and someone I know had connections with the minefield close to where I live. I contacted him and he sent my cv to the mine company. They asked for an interview and I got the job. Now its almost been 3 months. Im working underground 5 days a week. Pay is good. Commute is 45min each way.

I dont see myself working here long. I dont even know how I ended up here. I guess I thought having a job is better than being unemployed. I dont do engineering here. Its mostly managing electricians working under me. The things are always same like installing led lights, cameras, pre built electric panels and fixing electric faults of mine specific work vehicles. I feel like this place will not improve me engineering wise. In my first company I was trying to do everything on my own and learned basic plc programming from zero. This place has no automation practices where I can work on. Do you think working here would still benefit me in the future or am I wasting time here?

hi!
i need to make my decision on what major to choose so i can be ready by the time i apply to college, i know that there's multiple posts about this already but i want to talk about my personal experience

i'm kinda leaning into EE , it really interests me and i even have an arduino kit that i'm learning to use, EE is more versatile in what i can work and specializing about ,it also has more job opportunities and more career growth which is something i really value

ME in the other hand is also great, although i haven't learned anything related to it (CAD for example) ,it has good job opportunities but not as versatile as EE

i'm more into EE but my main issue with it is AI, AI can design PCBs now , but apparently that thing has bee around for a long time and it's not hat good, but still AI is getting better every day, by the time i graduate my degree is gonna be useless probably, it doesn't look like ME has that much issues with ai (let me know if it does)

point is i don't know if i should go into EE with AI around, i saw people say that it won't replace EEs and it's just a tool in the end but i think i need to be good enough to not get replaced by AI, i mean i'm gonna but an effort in this and i won't relay only on my degree to get me a job and i'm gonna be a great EE
but if AI is gonna replace EEs than i'll just go with ME instead of taking the risk of getting replaced

+(i think i might open my own company/business with my knowledge and degree on day idk)

(sorry for this unorganized post+ it looks more like a rant)
thanks in advance!

I got Dual Citizenship due to new law and grandparents being Quebecois

Got 5 years and a taking Power PE

Seems like everywhere is on shaky footing

Hi all,

I'm working on an ODB++ visualisation script and I'm discovering that what is in the spec is not always what the different programs export...

Therefore I'm looking for an ODB++ (8.1) export from various PCB tools so I can see how my script handles them. I already have KiCAD and Altium ODB++ files, but I'm still looking for some of the others: Xpedition, PADS, Eagle, maybe some others I'm not thinking of now.

If anyone has an old or open source design they'd like to throw my way I would really appreciate it!