I had a similar experience with Five Alive about a week ago.

kodewrita:

I am very ok with copying good ideas from anywhere. as long as they make sense.

I suppose you're right...

gulfer: Taking a cue from Senegal......I say YES and lets push it because they are just feeding fat on the nation and doing practically nothing.

Exactly. Tinubu is biting off of Senegal president Macky Sall and passing the idea off as his own.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19407427

@ayox2003 and castrokins:

Networking is one of the best means by which you can accomplish your objectives. Don't overlook anybody. It used to be that a mentor had to be someone approximately 15 years older than yourself. That is no longer neccesarily the case. Even your younger brother could be your mentor.

Don't worry about starting with a small network. Plug into the network, and your contacts will yield new contacts. Keep in touch with all your contacts, and eventually one of them will send an opportunity your way. Subsequently, it's going to be up to you to take the ball and run with it.

AjanleKoko:

^^
In these days of Internet, lots of resources abound. Circuit Cellar is one magazine I read a lot during my postgrad and early career, and it even has a student subscription. That poster can check here for more detail.

As per textbooks, I can only recommend one, which I have found to be a great resource. The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz and Hill. I'm sure free PDF downloads are available on RapidShare.

I looked at the Circuit Cellar Website. It's probably a good magazine for engineers who are interested in embedded systems design. The OP can, if he wishes, visit said Website regularly in addition to the Website for Practical Electronics located at www.epemag3.com

rosebelly:

I have a vast knowledge on industrial electrical controls using relay logics. Now I would love to learn how to implement most of those my controls using PLCs. I wouldn't want where I will waste anytime on those fundermentals like number systems and the likes. Rather, I want where I would start the programming immediately. I would also prefer to come the some of my relay logic designs for them to be converted into PLC ladders. I would also prefer a weekend arrangement.

Pls if anyone knows where I can get this service and at an affordable rate should pls drop the contact for me here so that I can make enquires. Pls I need experts not 'leaners' who claim they know it all only for you to discorver that they know nothing after you must have committed your money. Thanks and god bless us.

I could probably assist you with this. Unfortunately, I am not in-country at the moment. If possible, send me a sample of the relay logic that you would like to convert. I will look at them and we'll go from there. Send sample(s) to alkhwarizmi1968 at yahoo pt com.

Liadi2:

@Ajalenkoko, pls kindly help on this.PLS ROOM WAT ARE THOSE TYPE OF ELECTRONICS TEXT BOOK THAT I CAN READ AND HELP ME ALOT TO START DEVELOPING SOME PROJECT ON MY OWN AND WHERE I CAN GET CIRCUIT DIAGRAM TO START PRACTICING PLS I MEAN SMALL PROJECT MAY LIKE FM, LIGHT DIMMER, PHOTO CELL SWICTH, AND SOME OTHER CIRCUIT DIAGRAM. Pls pls pls help help waiting for your reply room

There used to be a magazine available in Nigeria many years ago. It was called Practical Electronics. If I remember correctly, it was published by a U.K company. It was quite a good publication, filled with just the types of projects that you described that one could rreally sink their teeth into and get their hands dirty on. It had projects at many different proficiency levels; from beginner to intermediate, all the way up to advanced.

I don't know if new editions are still available. If they are, try to buy them regularly. If not, try to get your hands on some old editions. You might serendipitously stumble across some editions if you go browsing through the collections of those folks who sell old books and magazines on the roadside throughout Nigeria.

Good luck.

netotse:

cool beans, we should be getting an EHV network in nigeria soon (700kV) according to the federal govt(aka bros Jona). Most of my experience has been in normal AC transmission but now I work in a predictive maintenance department in a cement company now I still plan to go back to the power sector sha. . .

So what sector are you in now?

I am in Technology Consulting.

netotse:

i totally agree with you. . .

I'd be really interested in hearing about your experience with power. . .care to share?

Sure thing Netotse. Sorry I'vee been away for a couple of weeks.

My power experience has been mainly in the area of High Voltage D.C transmission. I first became swithched on to this technology as an undergrad in the mid-late eighties reading the IEEE Spectrum magazine. In particular, I learned about the Pacific Intertie, a High Voltage D.C Transmission line on the west coast of the U.S. I remember thinking, 'Wow. Is that even possible? How do you even generate such high D.C voltages to begin with?" Up till that point, I was steeped in the belief that once you generated your A.C voltages and then stepped them up using transformers, you were left with no choice but to transmit your power as A.C. This was how it was done in Nigeria at that time, and as you know, high voltage A.C transmission is still the way it's done in Nigeria till date. When I discovered that given the right conditions, it was not only possible but preferable to do otherwise, I was fascinated.

Even though the mid-eighties are not too far away in the rear-view mirror on an electrical enginering time-scale, HVDC technology was still relatively new and unproven technology at that time. Spectrum magazine highlighted some of the ongoing debate about the benefits/justifiability of this technology. There were lively dscussions not only amongst electricaal engineering experts but also within the general public. Those were interesting times with few people knowing what the future held for HVDC technology.

Fast forward 20-25 years and HVDC technology is more mature. The technology is better understood and engineers have gained knowledge and experience resulting from dozens of HVDC installations around the world. In Africa, to the best of my knowledge, there is only one HVDC transmission line in the entire continent. That line is the 1700km long transmission line between the generation site at Inga and Katanga (formerly Shaba) in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I worked on that project, and I finally got a chance to experience up-close, the technology that so intrigued me more than twenty years ago.

Hello folks. I am new on this forum. I've read through a lot of the submissions and I must say that I found them interesting. It"s always great interacting with fellow engineers and in particular Electrical Engineers. I think that we Electrical Engineers have that "je ne sais quoi" that the other engineering dissciplines desire so much

I am an Electrical Engineer with more than 20 years experience drawn from Telecommunications, Oil & Gas Engineering Design, HVDC Power Transmission, and Software Development. I am currently based in Kinshasa, DR Congo. Kindly advise if there are any members in this forum who are located in my vicinity.

Cheers.