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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
For me, it's difficult because I've never had any formal electronics training whatsoever. Heck, I've never even had the benefit of someone in person walking me through a set step by step. It was just something that I wanted to do ever since I was a boy, so I pick it up as I go and have been doing that for the last decade or so.
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I have a degree in electronics and I took it as a trade in high school. I sometimes think that I got more useful training in high school than I did in college. I only took the first year in h.s. and I remember it being all about the math of Ohm's Law and Kirchoff's Law, the use of a Simspon ANALOG meter, and logical use of your God given senses which could be nearly as important as the former(s).
By the time I found a way to make it through college consumer electronics repair was all but done with. Even component level troubleshooting with scopes and such was reduced to nearly nothing beyond power supplies. Schools are set up to help people start careers and find jobs and that dictates the curriculm's content. Thank God that both my h.s. and college teachers were "old school" guys who were around when electronics was a true science as opposed to a digital mess of plug and play stuff called electronics. An "electronics tech" of years ago bore knowledge that makes today's "electronics tech" seem like a kindergarten student in many ways.
Just take a look at the old textbooks (which by the way we all should have) and compare to something of late. No comparison. Enough to cover what is needed to unlesah the potential graduate on industrial applications which are what most schools elaborate on these days. At least community colleges or junior colleges. I unfortunately can't say what a university electronics engineering student might go experience. Probably the equivalent of what the junior college or trade school student of the 40s or 50s experienced only up to date.
Nothing at all wrong with taking a natural interest and building on it through real world experience all while having a lot of fun. And trust me, this pool of knowledge that we all are lucky to be a part of here is used by me a lot on what often is rudimentary electronics troubleshooting. We all have strengths and weaknesses. What I love about electronics is that you never stop learing. Even with backdated technology it is a constant learning experience!
