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You are more likely to receive help from co-workers if they sense that you would be able to help them in return. If you are always asking for help from your co-workers, and never help them in return, then eventually they will stop helping you, even if you are friends and socialize all the time...

I would be less concerned with being a good conversationalist, and instead realize that being an introvert or a quiet person is not a problem of yours that you must overcome. It's only a problem for other people. If other people don't like your introversion, then that's their problem, not...

Many of the candidates I've interviewed don't ask any questions. It gives me the impression they will accept an offer from any company. You want to interview the employees as much as they interview you. Are there any training programs or mentors available for new grad hires? What kind of...

When making difficult decisions, I try to write down a list of the factors which are important to me in the decision-making process. It can be a prioritized list, or a random list which can prioritized later. Prioritizing allows you to make more rigorous decisions. For example, you could...

I am not aware of any standard techniques for checking code, it's more informal methods I picked up after taking SW Engineering and Algorithm classes. Like for example, inside a function, I will look at every place where a variable is referenced. Does the variable change value like I expect...

Perhaps your method to check your code is inadequate. The code that I write is sometimes not correct when I first put it down, but it tends to get corrected once I analyze it. Software engineering and Algorithms classes are often helpful for understanding how to analyze a segment of code for...

You might check out these videos where Pro Game Designers describe the career and the industry: https://www.nepris.com/app/videos/browse?keyword=game design&offset=0&selectedFacets={} You may have to create an account to view the videos (easy, and no spam). I watched these two videos and...

I adopted the following study method in graduate school and I went from a C average as an undergraduate to all As earned in graduate school. It also helped that I had acquired work experience before graduate school. And of course there is grade inflation in graduate school. :smile: When I...

Good insulation is needed year round here in Austin (and in large parts of Texas) with our 100F+ temperatures during the summer, and frequent 40F temperatures during the winter. Texas is definitely not Florida or Southern California.

I suppose it is possible these were destined for FIB, but I don't have much background on these die. Is it possible that the test leads are punching through all the metal and silicon layers to some "base" layer, even though I am holding them gently? Each time I touch the die with the leads...

I can see the patterning of the circuit on the "top" side of the die. I have 5 of these bare silicon dies, and they all measure the same way. I almost always get a 0.2 ohm reading, and then sometimes a reading of 20 ohms or so. I wonder if it has something to do with the probability that...

I have gotten access to a large bare silicon die (almost 1" across, 14nm process) that my company gets from a fab. I've been monkeying around with an ohmmeter placed at the top of the die, with the test leads placed at various points around the die, and I almost always measure the same value...

One way to explore career options in CS is to join one or more Open Source projects. These are collaborative projects where you volunteer your time and where almost anybody is permitted to contribute. You can start out with very simple assignments and work your way up. There is usually no...

Does it have to be accelerator physics? How about something like Computational Engineering? https://me.stanford.edu/research-impact/research-areas/research-area-computational-engineering BTW, I did not find a Master's degree expensive to obtain in the USA, however I am American born and I...

I've worked for over 25 years with a variety of Silicon Engineering companies, and I've never heard of the kind of work culture that you describe. There is a lot of pressure to get the job done on time, but I have never been "grilled" about why a particular task was not completed on schedule...