Born 1997 and interested in electrical/electronic stuff ever since. I enjoy learning by doing, but usually prefer planning projects down to the smallest details in advance. It saves shipping costs, helps keeping actual prototyping times short and Excel sheets long. At some point I hope to have all the different kind of wires, connectors, resistors, capacitors, transistors, chips and other desirable things already stored, so missing parts on weekend sessions won’t be an obstacle anymore. Beside classic EE I also take joy in basic wood and metalworking.
In 2017, I finished the electrical engineering program at HTL Saalfelden. This is an engineering college in Austria that lasts 5 years. In those 5 years, you basically go from R=U/I and learning how to use a screwdriver to FFT, control systems, statistics, signal processing, wiring control cabinets, analog/digital electronics, EMC and so on. Most people start working right after, but some pursue further education.
I then moved to Graz/Styria to study at the local University of Technology, getting the Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (specialized in microelectronics and circuit design) three years later in autumn of 2020 and the master’s degree in the same field in April 2023.
Hobbies: metal detecting, cycling, spending time in my small workshop pushing various personal projects, CNC milling (only wood so far), 3D printing, WordPress, assembling PCs
I also enjoy: watching Formula 1 races, gardening, writing, soldering
Special interests in: hardware related fields, prototyping, electronic systems, electromagnetic compatibility, e-mobility, photovoltaics
Software & Tools
Learning at the moment: Altium Designer
Regular usage:
– KiCad
– LTspice XVII
– EAGLE 7.6
– Overleaf/LaTex
– Microsoft products
Less frequently or only used within a specific course:
– Solidworks
– Matlab/Simulink (general tasks, mixed signal design, control systems, …)
– Cadence Virtuoso (basic analog amplifier IC Design, uni course)
– Keysight ADS (manually curve fitting lumped element models to existing S-Parameter measurements, uni project)
– AWR Design Environment 15 (RF filter, matching networks, uni course)
– CST Studio (Waveguides, directional couplers, uni course)
– OrCad Pspice (general circuit simulation, uni course)
Long time ago:
– Proteus (basic circuit simulations with microcontrollers)
– NI Multisim (circuit simulations)
– WSCAD (various controls, relay and contactor)
– EPLAN (various controls, relay and contactor)
Others: WordPress, Microchip Studio (AVR), Arduino IDE, WinPCNC-USB, EstlCAM, Ultimaker Cura, SimulIDE, GPIB, Git, Python, C/C++
