Microcontrollers

[Doug Coulter]

Sure would be nice to have her here -- my kinda engineer.
A true Hacker in the good sense.

I'll add a quote -- (mine)
"Making translation rules from PIR input (and all previous state) into something musically organized is left as an exercise for the student."

[William A Washburn]

Looks like the person to find if you have a tough MSP430 problem. I'm really impressed with
her accomplishments at this point in her life. Is it just me or are a large number of the smart
EEs very young now days?

[Bill Fain]

William, Hi. I think with the internet, we know more about peoples work now; almost instantly. It used to be only magazines or books. What's even more impressive about Ms. Ellsworth is that she is self taught. She has accomplished more at Her young age,
than most EE's with degrees, accomplish during a lifetime. -bill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

[Doug Coulter]

Doesn't hurt to be a cute chick when it comes time to self publicize either -- in a mostly-male profession. She tends to work at a greater level of generality than a really fundamental engineer did back when I was coming up, in other words, sticking together bigger chunks than we did, of already engineered things to put them to new uses, rather than working one bit at a time. Short, quick, simple re-mixes of existing stuff. I guess that's where we all wind up as things progress, no need for many to really understand electron flow, etc.

In my experience here, the younger ones are the harder working ones, I know I was, and when we had extra-productive people here, they tended to be college age -- kinda had something to prove.
And proved it. The phenomenon is well documented in science as well as engineering.

I have certainly found out in my own career that knowing how to communicate is as much key as knowing your stuff as an engineer. I sure made a ton more money after I figured it out. What good are brains with no money and no challenging projects? Gotta be a little bit of an idea salesman to put it all together.