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On Dec 10, 11:17=A0am, seryuz <ser...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a senior level electrical engineering student. I like the field
> of Control systems and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). But my
> university doesnt have so many opportunities to practise those stuffs.
> I am about to graduate and want to improve myself in this field.
>
> I need your advises about my interest. I am trying to find a good
> company to continue in this field. But I dont know what I have to do
> and know about my study. It is huge and complicated. I am about to
> graduate and I feel like `I dont know anything about this topic.`
Most of us didn't really know anything about this topic when we
graduated so your feeling is normal.

>
> Could you please tell me what I have to do now?
Homework, lots of it.  I graduated years ago and I am still doing home
work.
> For example,
> -What should I learn as a simulation program?
I would learn how to do system identification and simulation.  Scilab
is all you need for that and it is free.

> -What should I concentrate to get hired very easily in the future?
I don't think getting hired will be easy in the near future.  You will
need to be persistent and special.
I prefer people that have done their own projects.  The project
provide experience and show the ability to solve problems.  They help
make you 'special'

I don't have specific answers but in general I would concentrate on
learning 'forever knowledge' like math and physics as opposed to tools
such as PLC.  Tools change.  'Forever knowledge' doesn't and will
never be a waste of time.

I also would learn how to program well.  I would find one language and
learn it well.  C++, java, C#, or C will do.  I am not impressed with
people that list a dozen languages and can't program in any of them
well.  What ever language you pick, remember it is just a tool to do
a  job. It is just a passing fad.  Hopefully the tools is a mainstream
language from which you can learn good programming techniques that can
be carried over to the next programming language ( fad ).  It is these
techniques that I look for in a programmer, not the number of
languages.

Peter Nachtwey.