Navigation trail

• Display hardware engineer: Karen

Display hardware engineer: Karen

This Case Study belongs to Electronics engineer.

I graduated in 2006 with a degree in electronic engineering with music technology systems from the University of York and started work in September 2006 as a display hardware engineer in the European Design Centre at Sharp Laboratories of Europe. I work closely with a variety of European customers and also Japanese colleagues to specify, develop and evaluate LCD displays. This includes regular travel to customer sites in addition to other Sharp offices.

My day-to-day work is usually quite varied but splits mainly into two areas: electronics support for customer projects and developing test set-ups. Supporting customer projects can include design, testing and evaluation, responding to customer questions and presenting orally during meetings. This part of the job also requires some knowledge of optics and mechanics.

I've attended a number of training courses whilst at Sharp, including communications skills, project management and delivering excellence in customer projects, as well as taking part in a conference.

Within my work I use a lot of analogue and digital electronics with a small amount of software as well. My degree gave me a good basis in all areas of electronics, which has been important within my job, as the work can be quite varied.

Case Study sourced by Rachel Howlett of AGCAS, 20 August 2008.