What Dumitra says about the Master's in Embedded Electronics Engineering

Dumitra from Romania

What year did you graduate?

"I graduated in June 2023."

What is your current job and where is it located?

"I am currently employed as a PhD student at Lund University."

How did you find your job and how long did it take?

"I talked to fellow alumni who at the moment are also pursuing a PhD within the Department of Electrical and Information Technology, as well as to one of the professors within the programme. I gathered insights into how the PhD life feels like at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and also within the Digital Integrated Circuit design field. It did not take long to find an open position about Large Intelligence Surfaces, which combines both hardware design and wireless communication knowledge."

What is your favorite thing about your job?

"The variety of the tasks. I get to be an assistant teacher, take courses relevant to my research and work on the research project."

How are you changing the industry or the world (in a large or small way)?

"My research is about implementing new generation wireless systems in practice – which will hopefully reveal the pitfalls and fallacies that might arise due to the novelty nature of the systems. This way, I can contribute to the evolution of wireless communications and my work will act as an enabler for the next 6g systems."

What was especially useful about the programme that you use in your everyday work?

"The hands-on knowledge (such as designing with VHDL Hardware Description Language and C++) acquired through different courses which is now ubiquitous in my work."

What do you miss most from your time at Lund University? What were the highlights?

"The student life and the friends from different countries you make along the way."

How international was your programme?

"The programme gathered people mostly from outside Europe. The participants in the different courses were a good mix between international and national students."

What was the focus of your thesis?

"My thesis focused on building a wireless positioning system on Field-programmable gate array (FPGA). A low power feedforward neural network as well as efficient floating-point operations were implemented on hardware to achieve the accuracy of the software."

Why do you think prospective students should choose this programme?

"The courses are thought through, and the professors are very receptive to feedback and highly helpful. There are a lot of job opportunities in Lund and Sweden in general, within this field. Also, student life is very active in Lund. You will find a community of students who do all sorts of activities together. "

Do you have any advice for prospective students coming to Lund?

"Be open to all the possibilities and cultures (and especially the Swedish culture) – both career wise and social wise."