Engineering who's who

Oh god no, I definitely want to stay away from the IT sector. I've heard too many bad stories about it. Even if it is picking up again I think investors etc will still be wary.

I would be interested in things like the mars rovers etc and for some reason I associated robotics with those. Am I rite (right)? Would engineering be the right course to do? Or would I be better off with physics?

Thanks for your help, its been insightful so far.

Regards the Kalman filter, wasn't that exactly what the Desert Challenge was all about?

In 1960, R.E. Kalman published his famous paper describing a recursive solution to the discrete-data linear filtering problem. Since that time, due in large part to advances in digital computing, the Kalman filter has been the subject of extensive research and application, particularly in the area of autonomous or assisted navigation.

and the terrain problems too I suppose.

Me a part-time post-grad in DCU - Electronic Systems.
nearly done........

Cool! An engineering board with electronic engineers in it! Not quite sure why it's spawned in the science group but...well as long as it's here that's all that's important.

Me?

Orginally qualified in electronics engineering after being a hobbyist since age 8. First job designing parts to make guided missles go boom when they get close to things that need to go boom, moved on to design in-car data terminals and associated wireless comms equipment, then ticket machines and the like, then back to nuclear submarines (working on fibre optic networking, ASIC design, transputers etc), then in to access control, audio processing and video controls, then into fibre-optic motion sensing, then systems for controlling electrical substations, then flight data recording, then back home to good old access control.

In all 20 years since leaving college all of which has been spent in analogue/digital electronic design, embedded hardware and real time software engineering, all sorts of environments and applications, now own and run my own business designing electronics for the security industry specifically access control, door entry and digital video products. We also design integrated systems for people too and occasionally still get dragged into the odd bit of design consultancy.

2nd elec eng ucc soon to be 3rd

Electronic Engineer working abroad in ASIC design.

I am an Engineer working in England for a car company. I spent 4 years on my Bachelor and 3 years on my Masters in UCD in Mechanical Engineering. I know a sucker for punishment.

Job Title : "Embedded Software Design Engineer"

The company will pay for my BSC in Computer Science. I'm not too pushed.