Will someone be my mentor in Electronic circuit design. Really need someone to mentor me to become a good electronics engineer.

 

A very interesting request. What is your present level of knowledge in electrical/ electronics?? That affects where a mentor would need to start. The beginnings, especially, would be quite different.

 

A very interesting request. What is your present level of knowledge in electrical/ electronics?? That affects where a mentor would need to start. The beginnings, especially, would be quite different.

Hi, I'm a working professional, been working as an hardware engineer for past 10 years with mostly hands on testing work and PCB design work (schematics designed by other engineer). I feel like when it comes to circuit design, I lack design techniques. Theoretically, my basics are ok, if that makes sense.

 

A very interesting request. What is your present level of knowledge in electrical/ electronics?? That affects where a mentor would need to start. The beginnings, especially, would be quite different.

I have a bachelors degree in electronics engineering

 

Suggest you look for a retired local to you electronics engineer.

 

Really need someone to mentor

You can post questions here. There is a very wide variety of people here. Some of the comments will be wrong and some right. lol

 

OK, and that explains a lot of what you will not need to have explained, which is why I asked.
Certainly there is a lot to designing circuits! Not only do they need to perform the intended functions, but typically they also need to be reliable and for most applications, the lowest possible cost. Besides that, if the design is to be mass produced, there needs to be a good production yield. And usually not much of that is covered in the BSEE program.

One activity that helps to build design insights is to look at the designs others have done, and discover how their design works. That can go at your own pace as time allows and usually not cost much.

For working in the test sector, asking the creator of a design about it may provide a good deal of education while helping do your job better, a winning activity. Consider that a fair portion of engineers like to explain their designs and show how smart they are. So those might be happy to show off a bit, to your advantage.

 

When I started out: There were two electronics magazines. (popular elec. and radio elec.) Every month I built a project. I also got a HAM radio magazine. I often modified the projects. For many years I got circuit seller magazine. (most all gone) I forgot "Nuts and Volts". There is one more Elektor. This one is still going!

There are places like sparkfun.com that have projects to assemble.

At the university we only thought about doing something. I also took a 4 year technician program where we actually built things.

If I were to start over again, I would put down the book and pick up a soldering iron.

 

If I recall correctly, someone posted a link to a site that had scans of most all Popular Electronics (and its successor, Computers & Electronics). Also, if I recall correctly, there's a column in there by Forrest Mims III that would be helpful to the OP.

 

Nuts & Volts
Popular Elc.
amateur radio
more
electronics magazines

 

I have a bachelors degree in electronics engineering.

I lack design techniques.... my basics are ok....

With that background, perhaps your main lack is confidence? I think you need to start designing and building, being prepared to learn by making mistakes and using the study material that is readily available these days.

Forums such as this are a great place to ask for clarification of any issues, as long as you don't take the personalities too seriously.

 

Learning to design circuits and systems seldom happens by just fiddling around.Sorry folks but there is actually a methodology to designing, and that mostly does not consist of trying things until something appears to deliver the desired results.
Actual designing starts out by starting with the required results. Then examining what those results are composed of. And then keep subdividing until each element can be defined based on the required function and what components can produce that function. At that point it is resistors, transistors, and the various other parts. Then they get connected to each other on paper, and the functioning is verified, either by reason or by simulation. And so each system comes into existence as a collection of smaller blocks, which then, as bigger blocks are formed, and then connected.
Of course, looking at examples of how others have done something similar speeds up the process, sometimes quite a bit. THAT is where the education by seeing what others have done comes in to help.

AND, understand that the places for failing are when the thing is still on paper, BECAUSE reworking the paper design is faster and cheaper than reworking the circuit board and all of the welded parts.

Now a question for Leena: What part of the world are you located in??