/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2981600

EE here. Brofist.

Inb4 closet whining first years

>>2729647

Statics is retarded, I don't know why your department is making you guys take it.

I'm hella happy with my situation. Currently doing a specialty in RF, Microwave, and mm wave systems at UC Davis. Full of math and physics, it's awesome.

For a while, I would tell all my friends, psh anyone can do engineering, they give you all the equations, all the math is done for you. I though it was all just a big fucking joke, easy mode, was thinking about transferring into physics instead.

Then shit got real. Took my first semiconductor devices class, super interesting, full of quantum mechanics and other nonsense.

It gets better as everything you've learned comes together in the end. It's a pretty awesome realization.

For my final project in my second quarter of RF class, groups had to design the passive circuitry associated with a balanced schottky diode mixer which takes an RF signal at 10 GHz and transforms it to an intermediate frequency of 1.4GHz that can be amplified. Here's the layout from ADS:


Hang in there fellow EE!