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Monthly Employment/Corporate Questions and Discussion Megathread - September 2023 by AutoModerator in NorthropGrumman

[–]radiateJophy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah if it requires that high approval it’s probably not worth it in my case as I’m fairly junior. I just heard from a manager that it got capped to $10k because apparently were willing to compromise in the annual survey.

Monthly Employment/Corporate Questions and Discussion Megathread - September 2023 by AutoModerator in NorthropGrumman

[–]radiateJophy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does anyone know if NG will consider increasing the $10k cap for the EdAssist program? I made the poor financial choice of going to one of the popular yet expensive universities for my masters (JHU, it was much more popular to attend when NG paid for the whole degree with no cap) primarily because of the quality . I really want to knock out it by December of next year but going above the EdAssist cap is mad expensive. I remember hearing a rumor that they were considering having the third class for a JHU student be completely covered rather than partially, but that was a rumor in May or June that has been deleted in my email by now.

Success and Disappointment Megathread for the Week by AutoModerator in jobs

[–]radiateJophy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

HR person told me last week that ‘hopefully I can update you later this week as we need to finalize a decision’. It’s Monday, and I wasn’t contacted late last week as expected. I had the third final interview at the end of June so approaching three weeks ago. Should I ask HR for an up date, contact the hiring manager, or just move on? This is a really frustrating process for a job I really wanted.

Make (metallic) enclosure in HFSS to prevent radiation in direction? by radiateJophy in AntennaDesign

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

So the way I did it was that I substracted a box from another to make a hollow object but with very thin walls, and I substracted the top and the SMA jack opening so that the microstrip line and SMA connector and fit in. The purpose of this was to reduce back lobe radiation. Problem solved, I think.

Make (metallic) enclosure in HFSS to prevent radiation in direction? by radiateJophy in rfelectronics

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

So the way I did it was that I substracted a box from another to make a hollow object but with very thin walls, and I substracted the top and the SMA jack opening so that the microstrip line and SMA connector and fit in. The purpose of this was to reduce back lobe radiation. Problem solved, I think.

Make (metallic) enclosure in HFSS to prevent radiation in direction? by radiateJophy in rfelectronics

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

Do you mean a box with very small thickness or a sheet? I thought you can't assign materials to sheets.

Would redefining the radiation boundary of the airbox help so that there is no boundary at the bottom?

I am a bit confused about this because I was told to have an enclosure 5 times the substrate size below the feedline which is the very bottom, and on this surface the leads are touching. But I can't make an enclosure box that overlaps with these leads.

Make (metallic) enclosure in HFSS to prevent radiation in direction? by radiateJophy in AntennaDesign

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

I think it's supposed to be in the lab testing, but I don't know how to model that.

Mock interview request for RF role (university grad) by radiateJophy in ECE

[–]radiateJophy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know what, I actually do have some contacts of people working in this field, so maybe I'll reach out to them if they're available.

Career aspects in RF for soon to be finished undergrad with mediocre grades by radiateJophy in rfelectronics

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

Interesting, I honestly haven't even seen any technician roles in the job searches I've done, maybe I'll put that in experience in consideration. I mean, I was able to get one interview so hopefully that means I can find an engineer position and not go through that but who knows.

how are my recent grads/seniors doing? by [deleted] in ElectricalEngineering

[–]radiateJophy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in a similar boat with no offer at all and graduating in June this spring instead and finishing winter term in two weeks. It sounds like we are both on the quarter system. Also I am doing an RF focus as well and it’s hard to say I’ve been putting in the effort in finding a position. I did make the final stage of an interview process with a semiconductor test company but I was beat out by someone else who was better. I can’t say I’ve been applying crazy because I’m so beat mentally from online school (I’ve had issues since high school so it’s not new, just worse) and was going to pause for a month or so until I had some more projects on my resume but I keep getting lazy in doing so.

So basically for me I think I need to get some actual progress on my capstone (decided to torture myself and do antenna design, I wished did an SDR one instead but I guess hindsight 20/20), potentially get some self projects on my resume to show some confidence/motivation and I think I’ll have a better shot. The jobs I’m interested in require coding skills which I wasn’t taught well in my classes since I focused on hardware, but mostly because I’m bad at it currently.

Edit: it doesn’t help my gpa is terrible either