Re: Professional Exams for Digital Signal Processing!?

Richard Owlett <rowlett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:13dbpjsb8gd5vea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Jerry Avins wrote:

Brian Byrne wrote:

Thanks for that information.


Among the skills that will help you find a job that you want is
better command of written English, especially if you're a native-born
anglophone. For one example, there should be no space between a
punctuation mark and the word immediately preceding it:

Ideally , I want to ...


Some words composed of two parts are (depending on the sense) written
as one word. "Worthwhile" is one of those.


Jerry, be ye careful with "anglo..." ;)
The gentleman's country code indicates Ireland.
And as with the rest of the UK, they don't speak our English.
[they "earth' circuits composed of "valves" while driving behind a
bonnet] My Grandfather was from south and probably kissed a certain
stone ;)

He has been asking a simple pointed question
"Is there a professional certification for DSP?"

On this side of the pond, the simple answer is *NO!*

Why?

In my VERY personal opinion the IEEE got too fascinated with academic
credentials. The result is a registered PE is qualified to build
bridges but need never have used an IC.

I was a student member in early 60's and abandoned ship at next
renewal.

I doubt there's a meaningful professional certification in any EE
field.

I've seen some meaningful attempts at technician level. I've never
followed up on those as they were aimed at a different audience.

My advice to Mr. Byrne, follow practice of artists.
Show up at interview with a "portfolio".
It would contain samples of your work.
What you want to show prospective employers is that you have real
solutions to real problems.

I assume that Brian and his counterparts are going to know a little about
Matlab, signal processing, etc if they finish a degree in EE. This is never
the reason I hire anyone.

Richard's portfolio suggestion is excellent. There is really no reason why
an EE graduate can't have some show and tell exhibits. It's even better if
the exhibits are not the results of a class assignment.

One of the very best design engineers I know, had an awful grade point
average in school and never finished his degree (due to a couple of missing
non technical electives). He also designed and assembled test cells for
cardiac pacemakers and rebuilt his own airplane before starting his junior
year.

Good engineering candidates are interesting. If you chose engineering just
because you are good at math, you probably won't be a good engineer. Better
candidates know the smell of smoked parts and have spent all night chasing
a software bug.

These are a few of my interview questions:

1. Can you solder? If yes, SMT?
2. Can you write Windows programs?, If yes, device drivers?
3. What have you designed and built yourself?
4. Can you write?
5. Why did you want to become an engineer? When did you know?

A professional exam will probably tell me almost nothing except that
someone can pass or fail a test. The only hiring failure of engineers that
I have made in 30 years was an individual who would have had the easiest
time of passing a professional exam in digital signal processing. I had him
working on noise reduction algorithms for speech. I asked him how his work
was going and he showed me his Matlab simulation. I then asked him how it
sounded. He didn't know, he had never bothered to listen to the results!
I was not impressed......

Al Clark
Danville Signal Processing, Inc.















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