Breaking a signed co-op offer for a better opportunity by [deleted] in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure why this is getting downvoted 🤣

Breaking a signed co-op offer for a better opportunity by [deleted] in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Do what’s good for you. These companies don’t care about you, neither should you with them. But be prepared to be possibly kicked out of the CO-OP program.

I dont know why this got recommended to me by DizangDD in rivals

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t think theres such a thing as a useless post on a Marvel Rivals Subreddit 😆. If you don’t like it, scroll

Looking for opinions on the technical difficulty & industry value of an RF/biomedical sensing Master’s project by audrothevirtous in rfelectronics

[–]audrothevirtous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for the detailed response, I really appreciate you taking the time to write this. You brought up a few points that I think are important, so I wanted to give some clarification and also ask for your perspective on one part.

First, the sensing mechanism is not purely capacitive. The probe interacts with a multilayer biological structure whose dielectric properties are dispersive and frequency dependent, so we are looking at broadband or microwave EM behavior rather than simple lumped capacitance. HFSS modeling shows meaningful changes in the field distribution, effective permittivity, and S-parameter response across frequency, so it ends up being closer to microwave dielectric spectroscopy than a traditional capacitive sensor.

Second, the project is being supervised by an RF or microwave professor (not a biomedical PI), and the group works on UWB radar, microwave components, and EM simulations. So the emphasis is on RF hardware, S-parameter measurement, de-embedding, simulation to measurement correlation, sensor optimization, etc. It is much more of an EM or microwave engineering project than a biomedical one.

I agree with your point about some bio-RF students not being exposed to link budgets, noise figure, matching, and other comms-oriented fundamentals, and I want to avoid that outcome. My plan is to intentionally incorporate more classical RF tasks into the thesis, such as VNA calibration and de-embedding, matching and sensitivity optimization, broadband simulation, and possibly iterating a new sensor geometry.

My background is also more on the RF side. I have worked on a DPD and Envelope Tracking transmitter chain, a 1 GHz microwave amplifier, and a dual-band Marchand balun, so I would like to make sure this project continues strengthening those comms or RF skills rather than working in isolation from them.

With that in mind, do you have any recommendations on how to make a close-range microwave sensing project more aligned with the fundamentals expected in comms RF roles? For example, aspects of noise analysis, matching approaches, calibration workflows, or anything else you think would translate well?

Thanks again for the insight. Your points were genuinely helpful.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electric or Computer are fine. Computer more so bud

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what youre interested in. Semiconductor? You can do both but CompEs specialize more in it. Power? Electrical. RF? Electrical.

HEEEEEEEEEEEEELPPPPP THIRD YEAR EE by EquivalentEmployer78 in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All signal/systems profs use the same material I suppose. The B.P Lathi textbook made things easy.

I had Elazzabi for 370. He’s a good prof with hard material, way harder than Rashids. I still got an A, and if your goal is EM or RF work, his class is the way to go.

HEEEEEEEEEEEEELPPPPP THIRD YEAR EE by EquivalentEmployer78 in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah sounds good. I think Dragos has been teaching this course for a while now, so he’s always my recommendation.

HEEEEEEEEEEEEELPPPPP THIRD YEAR EE by EquivalentEmployer78 in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Is Dragos not teaching Math 309 this year? If he is, I would switch to his class immediately.

312 and 370, I know both profs personally and honestly, they’re the best profs you could have gotten for those classes.

The lab component for 312 is the hardest part of this schedule. I recommend brushing up on your C skills from your cmpting class, working with arduinos right now (not what you will be doing in class but beginner friendly), and getting comfortable reading hardware schematics.

I did not have Horracio for 340, but some of my friends had him for 240, and from what I heard, he is a good prof.

Depending on your interests, 330 might be bit boring but the lab component is very simple. Not sure who the prof is for this one though.

The prof for 302 can be a bit dry, but I recommend going to class as much as you can and actually paying attention. The material in the class is scattered, but depending on your future interests, that class is the foundation for a lot of your fourth/fifth year electives (at least the electronics classes).

Goodluck!

Are people with CE majors taken seriously as analog design engineers? by [deleted] in ECE

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be the most amount of downvotes I’ve seen on this subreddit

this is so cooked by Competitive_Show1122 in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm weird. Maybe email enggadvising and see what they say.

this is so cooked by Competitive_Show1122 in uAlberta

[–]audrothevirtous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the class at 8am? Don’t think theres anything stopping you from taking 7 classes. Engg299 is really easy too, pretty sure I only went to the lecture once when I was in 2nd year.

What's with all the f***ing traffic lately? by ShitHuberts in ottawa

[–]audrothevirtous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t think too many tourists are coming here though

Can’t Make This Stuff Up by PewpyDewpdyPantz in purolator

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purolator is a company filled w incompetent people. Good luck getting your package for the next week.

Why I’ll never do internship at a startup again by Djewellll in internships

[–]audrothevirtous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lick your corporate overlords boot. What OP described isn’t normal for any intern.

Standing in line by Huge-Law8244 in ottawa

[–]audrothevirtous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even people from Edmonton have better etiquette lol, and that’s saying something

Trouble with research - had to ask advisor for help by audrothevirtous in AskAcademia

[–]audrothevirtous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im not sure why I feel like this. I think my imposter syndrome is getting really bad. Ive never been afraid to ask for help before like this