Do you agree this is how to approach an Electronics Degree in UK?

[doobedoobedo]

It might help you understand why exporting of labour and businesses moving abroad is happening to the UK.

Thanks, but my real point, is that Germany is a very similar country to UK, and in 2014, Germany was the world's biggest exporter by capital value......Therefore why can't UK  get at least a little bit like this too?
The dismantlement of  UK industry will kill UK. Unless it is reversed. Import tariffs and protectionism must be brought in to UK  so as to nurture basic British Industry such as lighting, basic domestic goods, basic industrial machinery , etc etc.
If this is not done, the UK will be a Third World country within a decade.

I worked with Germans and for a German company for 10 years. There is a huge difference in attitudes and culture between the UK and German people. Protectionism is one of them. If we do put tariffs on things it will be in in retaliation to the EU.

[Wilksey]

You don't have to keep posting links to your website stating that the UK is declining, or letters to people etc etc!

[dmills]

Indeed, power is not my thing, but much the same goes for every field, the only question is how far down the rabbit hole do you wish to go.

Seems to me Treez that your notes basically apply to penny ante flybacks and the like, and why would anyone bother rolling their own? The things are a commodity product and I would have to shift a huge number of units to get back the NRE, doubly so when you consider the certification costs. Jellybean power supplies are like opamps, sure I can design one from discrete parts, but most of the time I have better things to do and I just buy in the boring bits.

At the end of the day, what most of us do is in some sense systems engineering, we take a power supply module and add a processor module and some IO, maybe a few amplifiers, maybe a screen, it is a rare pleasure to have to actually get the math on, most of the time the value is in knowing how to combine almost black box subsystems, and in knowing where those assumptions break down.

Regards, Dan.