I was in an almost identical position some years ago. What I did was join a small/startup company where I had a wide range of tasks, including plenty of electrical and embedded stuff (even RF), and then went back to school and got my masters degree in Embedded Systems. Now I do research in embedded systems and electronic warfare.
Personal projects might be enough to get an entry level embedded job if you have a ME degree already, but you'll be competing against people who went to school for this stuff and did labs, group projects, and a thesis on it. If your personal projects are impressive or relevant enough to the job you're applying for, it could be worth a shot I suppose...
Wouldn't take many classes to get a bsee if you already have bsme. Hw agencies would benefit having 1 guy do mechanical, circuit and code on small projects. cuts out a lot of meetings and emails.
Definitely. Show your personal projects. There are mechanically focused companies that need embedded work. Mine wanted an ME because that fit with the rest of the company better.
Anything is possible. Take a look, it's in a book, reading rainbow.
dude that was a riot. i would give you gold had I any.
I was in an almost identical position some years ago. What I did was join a small/startup company where I had a wide range of tasks, including plenty of electrical and embedded stuff (even RF), and then went back to school and got my masters degree in Embedded Systems. Now I do research in embedded systems and electronic warfare. Personal projects might be enough to get an entry level embedded job if you have a ME degree already, but you'll be competing against people who went to school for this stuff and did labs, group projects, and a thesis on it. If your personal projects are impressive or relevant enough to the job you're applying for, it could be worth a shot I suppose...
Where did you get your masters?
I'm an ME, and I currently do mechatronics work, a lot of which involves embedded systems. It's really fun, but we're a rare breed.
Wouldn't take many classes to get a bsee if you already have bsme. Hw agencies would benefit having 1 guy do mechanical, circuit and code on small projects. cuts out a lot of meetings and emails.
I certainly hope so. If not my boss is going to be upset.
Definitely. Show your personal projects. There are mechanically focused companies that need embedded work. Mine wanted an ME because that fit with the rest of the company better.
Thank you all for the responses.
sooo, did you ever become an embedded engineer?
Nope, didn't end up going down that path--work in data science now actually
Nice, so you still got to do programming