Lifelong learner -- My Philips Singapore Pte Lte (Video Factory) working experience

1. After graduated from NUS, I joined Philips Singapore Pte Ltd in 1984. I was trained locally for 9 months on the job to be a TV circuit designer. After the training course, I joined the Engineering Department and worked as a TV set Test System Designer.

The experiences I gained from working at Philips Singapore Pte Lte (Video Factory):

1.1 The 9-month course (Training for the Industrial Development Engineer- TIDE 3) proved to be a useful  course without exams. This course trained us in a realistic working environment. The course materials and training methods are authentic (according to the situated learning theory). It also helped me to do networking with my course mates (most of them are my NUS classmates).

1.2 The 2 years working life at the Philips Singapore Pte Ltd pushed me to learn a lot of practical skills and knowledge which I had not learnt in my NUS course. The production floor problems I needed to solve trained me to look at problems in a practical way and to learn to work with other colleagues to solve problem as a team.

1.3 The new knowledge (not taught at NUS) I had learnt at Philips Singapore Pte Ltd are:

1.3.1 How to design automatic test equipment (ATE): in-house Test System and IEEE-488 Test System (GPIB)

1.3.2 How to design switch-mode power supply

1.3.3 How an analog  TV circuit works

1.3.4 How to solve interference problems in an industrial environment.

1.3.5 How to test high frequency circuits.

1.3.6 The C-programming langage