I've known very talented designer from Microchip's bbs. I was very amazed of
his high quailty responses and wrote him my thoughts and offered co-working
through the net. So he responded back three pages long reply plus two pages
of his resume. Those conversations hangs near my monitor. The weird side is
he has no degree but i'm sure that he has much better than our profs. Here
is right place to cite some from his replies...

"I don't have a University degree. Actually, I never set foot in a
University as a student, although I have worked on a few post-grad research
projects as a collaborator, under invitation. Currently I work as a
Electronics Design Engineer, although I don't have a EE degree, nor any
other degree actually. The point here is that I lack the necessary academic
credentials (those letters like MSEE, PhD, et cetera)...

Medical electronics is as vast a field as any ee broad field. You have from
relatively simple measurement and control circuitry (like neonatal thermo
regulation using infrared imagery), to vital signals monitoring like
oxymetry, EKG, EMG, EEG, pH, blood pressure, insulin monitoring, to clinic
diagnostic equipment (like a myriad of sensors and analysis procedures
applied to all areas of diagnostic medicine), to high-end imaging and state
of the art visualization and processing (like computer graphics 3D realtime
modelling and visualization from datasets derived from ultrasound, thermal,
impedance, acidity, radiology, CAT and MRI data), to robotic manipulation
for remote surgical procedures, to body-implanted intelligent sensors and
actuators, to embedded drug dispensers for chronic treatment and pain
control, to sensory and motor intelligent bionic prostetic devices that
interface directly with neural tissue and muscle tissue for
limb rehabilitation/substitution, to personal intelligent assistant devices
that augment the capabilities of handicapped persons, to electronic safety
devices for debilitating illnesses such as dementia, allzheimer, epilepsy,
to cardiac implanted devices like pacemakers and artificial blood pumps, to
digital hearing implants, to artificial sensors for personal safety like
thermal damage warning for hansen disease patients, to name just a few
areas."


His no degreed abilities goes on and on...I'm still half of the way in
contrast to him and i have degree but my experience is just like a sand on
the earth...

Anyway, although Albert Einstein wasnt an engineer did he get a degree
before explaining "special relativity" phenomenon
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