Advices needed for becoming a professional or better electronics designer !

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hello guys,
i was wondering on how can an amateur become a better electronics designer and maybe professional why not ?
is by becoming better at reading the Datasheet and understanding what each pin do and not just applying examples already done by others ?

i would like to hear your advices please

thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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You could try formal study of the subject.

Weedpharma

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weedpharma:
You could try formal study of the subject.

Weedpharma

i am actually a mechanical engineer, i have that idea in my head but must see how things will go this year, if it goes by plan my next target will be electronics engineering

but i would like to imagine no formal study so what can be done ?

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I would expect that to be an Electronics Engineer, you would need formal qualifications. I would doubt that many employers would be happy to give the job to "an experienced hobbyist".

As you already have one degree, I would expect that there would be many exemptions you would be able to get.

Weedpharma

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weedpharma:
I would expect that to be an Electronics Engineer, you would need formal qualifications. I would doubt that many employers would be happy to give the job to "an experienced hobbyist".

As you already have one degree, I would expect that there would be many exemptions you would be able to get.

Weedpharma

i don't mean to be working in a company but rather to be able to make my own designs but like a professional way

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Lots of reading and practice is all that remains. Reading electronics books and articles to see how others do things.

Weedpharma

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weedpharma:
Lots of reading and practice is all that remains. Reading electronics books and articles to see how others do things.

Weedpharma

ok thanks a lot

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check this book - http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Third-Scherz/dp/0071771336

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You might also look into various online courses (MOOC) and similar offerings (Coursera, Udacity, MIT OpenCourseWare, Khan Academy - among many others).

Beyond that, tons of googling and reading.

If you are really serious about electronics - be sure to pick up copies (books) of Grob's Basic Electronics and Horowitz's Art of Electronics. These books will teach you virtually everything about how electronics really work (plenty of math and science inside them) - note that they are textbooks, so to keep things inexpensive, don't purchase the latest editions (unless you don't mind spending a boatload of money).

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thanks a lot guys for the good advices

about udacity i don't think it gives any electronics courses they doesn't even teach all the programming languages or i mean the important ones like C and C++ or PHP or ...