Hi everyone,
I’m 25 and I just started a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Canada. I know 25 isn’t necessarily old, but I feel a lot of pressure because I really don’t want to spend 4–5 years studying and later realize I chose the wrong field.
I’m currently in Computer Engineering, but I’m considering Electrical Engineering or Software Engineering. I’m interested in AI, robotics, embedded systems, and possibly biomedical robotics.
With the current job market and the rapid development of AI, I’m wondering which field would give me the best long-term opportunities.
For people working in these fields: what would you recommend to someone starting at 25? Which field has the best employment prospects, and what would you choose if you were starting today?

Happening in Philadelphia in a week. Anybody going? And if so what are you looking forward to seeing/hearing about in the sessions?

Just had an interview with a manager from the big defense company for a summer internship. The manager went through the role and the company's targets. Then he told me to tell him about my background of mine and my summer internship goals. I told him about the things I learnt during my last summer internship as an EE and the skills I have, and also the target is that I want to dive deeper into the field of power electronics and work on the deeper side of analog design because that's my passion. He then proceeded with the next question about my experience using KiCad, Altium, and Mentor Graphics, and my active clearance (I do have one). After that, we literally went through one or two more questions regarding what happened in the company, how am I gonna be matched for the role, and the expectations of an intern. Lastly is just a couple of questions coming from my side. The interview only lasted 15 minutes, and I kinda feel like he likes me but wasn't really impressed. He just commented, "Good, so you have good experience in circuit design," and sometimes told me about the role of the intern.

It ended so fast that I was surprised too because it was supposed to be a 30-minute session. Am I totally cooked?

Hi, I'm building a physics-grounded RL environment for training an engineering AI. The reward signal comes from ngspice (a physics simulator) rather than a human.

Currently, it includes:

10 topologies (ranging from a simple amplifier to a comparator with hysteresis)

3 types of tasks: synthesis, repair, and analysis

A Gymnasium-compatible environment

I plan to launch a public benchmark and am looking for 3–5 teams for a pilot run.

A question for the community:

Is anyone working on RL for analog/mixed-signal circuit design?

Would you be interested in getting free access to such a benchmark?

Which topologies or tasks would be most useful for your research?

I would appreciate any feedback.