I'm Rinosh Baskaran, 23, currently pursuing a Master of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. My journey in electronics and electrical engineering began in 2021, when I started my bachelor's in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai, India.
Back in higher secondary school, at a time when almost everyone around me was choosing computer science, I was one of the few who picked electronics and communication and I picked it with a lot of passion. I'd been fascinated by the meeting point of software and hardware since childhood: pulling apart TV remotes and staring at those mysterious green boards, not knowing then that PCBs would become the very thing I'd study and work on today.
Early in my bachelor's I wanted to find the one area that pulled at me the most, and it narrowed to embedded systems then PCB design, and more recently the optical and photonics space. That passion for embedded systems led me to found an Embedded Systems club with the support of my professors, which I served as president for over a year before handing it to my juniors and turning toward my master's.
By my second year I'd realized that going straight into industry after my bachelor's wasn't the path I wanted but going deeper into the field first is the right path. That's what brought me to Ottawa: to build and sharpen my knowledge in electrical and electronics engineering before stepping into the real world of industry.