Most engineering undergraduates end their post-secondary education with an EE, or local equivalent. Many Physics graduate students were engineering physics undergraduates, a mix of engineering and physics. They spent four years learning about their specialty but as with us, all the education in the world cannot replace hands-on in the real world. Those students who go on to a Masters program or are doctoral candidates learn to apply all that knowledge in the research labs. This is their trial by fire. What is a good safety margin? Is Absolute Maximum to be taken literally? How extensively should simulations be? Does 1KV do more than curl your hair? Can you touch a resistor dissipating 10W in free air? Sound familiar?
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