For those who don’t know me. I am a graduate student – pursuing a PhD. My PhD is in the area of Computer Engineering and when people ask me what I do or what my future work would be like – I ask them first if they know what a chip is – depending on their answer – I go a further. If they say that the only chip they know are the potato kind – I tell them I help their cell phones work well or I help digital signals go from point A to point B without getting lost or get degraded.
There is neat little snippet of a signal integrity (SI) engineer’s business card and the questions he asks during his ‘therapy’ sessions floating around in the SI discussion forums.
-"Arthur Fraser Transmission Line Therapist"
It always conjured up what the Therapist would be asking the signal:
"How long have you had these paranoid feelings that you will be
terminated?"
"Have you always felt there are aggressors out to get you?"
"Have you always coupled with your neighbors?"
"And could you describe in more detail all this ringing your
experiencing - is it like church bells?
"And you say that no matter where you go, you always experience a delay
in your travel?"
"This ground bounce you mention, is this related to a seismic event?
"As your therapist I am concerned you always refer to yourself as a
victim, do you always see yourself as a victim?"
"And you say you feel you are just meandering through life?"
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