Professional Identity & Career Orientation
Being an embedded and robotics engineer is not one fixed job — it covers firmware, electronics, robotics software, test engineering, and technical leadership. This subject is about who you are becoming: recognising the roles available to you, mapping your strengths onto them, and using that to make deliberate choices in the studio rather than drifting through them.
Starting Points
- Fournier, C. (2017). The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change. O'Reilly.
- LinkedIn Learning. Tech Career Skills: Moving from Developer to Engineering Manager.
- HBO-i. Domeinbeschrijving: Professional Skills.
Key Points
- You describe at least three professional roles that an embedded or robotics engineer can grow into and explain the differences between them.
- You reflect on your own strengths, interests, and working style and connect these explicitly to a role or specialisation you want to develop.
- You make a deliberate choice about your focus area in the studio project and articulate why this fits your development goals.
- You identify what skills and experiences you still need to develop to reach your stated career goal and plan first steps.