The Work Context The first thing to do is add some context the discussion and then we will start looking at the soft skills you need in the industry. Professional work  is made up of deliverable chains. Each person is creating work that will be used by another person for their work. Eventually out of the chains comes built the products we use everyday. This is fundamentally different than most academic work where homework is built up in parallel leading to a test. Because you are in ...

The Soft Skills Problem One of the reasons why it is hard make the transition into professional work is that it is hard to characterize what it means to be a professional. What soft skills do professional hardware engineers have that makes them good at their work?   The general consensus has been that only way to learn the answer to this questions was through experience in a job. Even though this is true that you will learn this way it will only be after many false starts and mistakes, frustrati...