"Joe L" <I'm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Arny Krueger" >
>> If you knew anthing about electrical
>> engineering.....................>
>
> Maybe the terminology is different in the US, but here
> electrical engineer is not the same as an electronics
> engineer.
Depends what segment of the job market, you are talking.
In vocational training, electrical technicans and electronic technicans
have
different training.
In academics, an EE program trains people for either kind of profession.
The
university I graduated from and did post-graduate work at didn't even
formally distinguish between mechanical engineers, electrical engineers,
civil engineers or computer engineers. They give you a degree in
Engineering, and that is that.
> Although I make no claims to be an electronics
> tech anymore, I did work as one for 4years for a small
> company called Bell & Howell.
I've flipped back and forth being being a technican and being an engineer
for my whole life. Right now I'm functioning more like a technican, but
there's engineering and management behind everything I do.
I've earned a good living doing one or the other, or being a manager.
> But anyway, even back when I studied, if one wanted to go
> into audio, they'd not take the electrical engineer pgms,
> but the electronics one's.
That is very much characteristic of vocational training, as opposed to
academic training. I've done them both.
> Even then, studying electronics doesn't prep one to be a
> live sound or studio engineer.
IME most people who work in those areas are largely the results of
On-The-Job training, which of course is very vocational. BTW it is well
known that an academic degree in engineering needs to be followed up with
lots of OJT if the engineer is to be effective.
> It's just a nice related
> skill. But I'd think the electronics pgms to be a lot
> more related than that of an electrical engineer pgm.
Under all of engineering are the basic laws of physics. My actual academic
focus was control system engineering, and we were taught that pretty much
the same math underlies all of the technologies, and if you understand
that,
the rest is OJT. In the 40 or so years since that, I've never seen an
exception.
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