5. Don’t Be Afraid Of Making Mistakes.
Great engineers make big mistakes. People who do not want to make mistakes live by the book. For example, in software engineering there is a solution for almost anything. All you need is a little bit of research. I like it when people still try to build greater things, even though they failed in the past. It’s really no shame to fail. With engineering in particular, lots of things can go wrong and many lands remain unexplored. Because most people choose to walk the line.
I do not particularly like people who give up once they discover that other people tried the same thing and failed. Before anything else, it is important to understand why other attempts failed. Just because other people failed doesn’t mean you should abandon.
6. Don’t Be Afraid Of Fixing Mistakes.
Always fix and improve. For example, very few people are able to acknowledge mistakes and fix them. When it comes to engineering, denying mistakes leads to extremely poor results. In software engineering, this may turn out to be a big issue, because things can get crazy when you somehow know that a component is broken and, instead of fixing it, you simply wrap it up with layers that eventually try to deal with the source of failure.
7. Befriend The Impossible.
If you assume something is not going to happen simply because chances are slim, bad news – it will in fact happen at the worst moment possible. As an engineer, try to identify the things that got overlooked and anticipate the worst-case scenario; there might be a few. Predicting the unpredictable is a highly important engineering task!
It is actually hard to be a good software engineer. Computing can be very anti-engineering, as it’s closer to mathematics than to physics. The already known resolution is the best place to start. This makes people forget about engineering and, eventually, even promising engineers take the paved road.
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Electrical engineering is one of the newer branches of engineering, and dates back to the late 19th century. It is the branch of engineering that deals with the technology of electricity. Electrical engineers work on a wide |
range of components, devices and systems, from tiny microchips to huge power station generators.
Early experiments with electricity included primitive batteries and static charges. However, the actual design, construction and manufacturing of useful devices and systems began with the implementation of Michael Faraday's Law of Induction, which essentially states that the voltage in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change in the magnetic field through the circuit. This law applies to the basic principles of the electric generator, the electric motor and the transformer. The advent of the modern age is marked by the introduction of electricity to homes, businesses and industry, all of which were made possible by electrical engineers.
Some of the most prominent pioneers in electrical engineering include Thomas Edison (electric light bulb), George Westinghouse (alternating current), Nikola Tesla (induction motor), Guglielmo Marconi (radio) and Philo T. Farnsworth (television). These innovators turned ideas and concepts about electricity into practical devices and systems that ushered in the modern age.
Since its early beginnings, the field of electrical engineering has grown and branched out into a number of specialized categories, including power generation and transmission systems, motors, batteries and control systems. Electrical engineering also includes electronics, which has itself branched into an even greater number of subcategories, such as radio frequency (RF) systems, telecommunications, remote sensing, signal processing, digital circuits, instrumentation, audio, video and optoelectronics.
The field of electronics was born with the invention of the thermionic valve diode vacuum tube in 1904 by John Ambrose Fleming. The vacuum tube basically acts as a current amplifier by outputting a multiple of its input current. It was the foundation of all electronics, including radios, television and radar, until the mid-20th century. It was largely supplanted by the transistor, which was developed in 1947 at AT&T's Bell Laboratories by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, for which they received the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics.