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@trackboy only if you are doing cutting edge research. Most of that is canned software now. I GG ave used it for particle science.

@Tastyfrzz The easy road. ✌️

@Tastyfrzz then why do you have to learn differential equations to get an engineering degree? so you don't design the circuits by hand doing differential equations to model the function of transistors and capacitors and inductors? 🎃

@trackboy you learn deq then you learn laplace and z transforms for modeling servo systems. Matlab helps with that but you need to understand what's happening to create the models and interpret yhe results . FEA is basically just linear algebra but on a massive scale. Tie that with nonlinear regression or baysian statistics and things get more complicated. Even the addition of humidity to fluent models blows things up. All of that means that the tools need be better and that requires engineers. I don't create circuits but we do have software for doing it but sometimes you need to create something with binomial optics like i did for a hard drive optical clock thatvwe couldn't get anymore or a new type of laser cavity like some guys are doing on a lidar system we're developing.

@Tastyfrzz Laplace transforms allow you to get around using calculus. FEA??????? the software will design the circuits like an audio amplifier or a microstrip line designing microwave circuits? Do you do single stub and double stub impedance matching for microwave transmission lines? do you still draw out a smith chart by hand or do you use a computer for that? Do you still use the Wilkinson bridge to split a microwave strip into two strips for splitting a signal or for combining two signals? do you still use Claude Shannon's information theory for handling rf design for transmitting information? lidar system for the police measuring the speed of cars? how much instant laser eye surgery is done by lidar systems? G. Gordon Liddy who was a special operative for the white house and has ties to the intel community said the liability lawyers are drooling over the lawsuits from the instant laser eye surgery done by the laser speed guns. are you enjoying the Halloween season? 🎃

@trackboy those areas are beyond me. I'm a mechanical enginèer that occasionally has to take on other things. The clisest I've come to mixrowaves was in investigating if they could erase media.

@Tastyfrzz it sounded like you were doing electrical engineering with the optical clock and with the lidar laser cavity. how do you like mechanical engineering? making a fortune at it? 🎃