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Priya's Wednesday, two ways

9 lessons · 22 prompts

A day in the life of a Hardware Engineer: what changes with these prompts.

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Priya, a hardware engineer at a small medical device company.

Priya starts Wednesday with a dense temperature sensor datasheet and a design review at ten. She opens Claude and asks, Explain this datasheet in plain English. List supply voltage, communication protocol, and three common wiring mistakes. She pastes the key pages. Fifteen minutes later she has a one-page summary for the team.

After stand-up, she uses ChatGPT to compare the sensor with two alternates. She asks, Compare these three parts for a battery-powered device. Show differences in power use, package size, and cost at one thousand units. Flag any missing data. One alternate uses less power but needs a different footprint, so she notes a question for the vendor.

At lunch, a prototype board resets when the motor starts. She uses Gemini and the Debug from a Description prompt: The board resets when the motor starts. The reset happens only on battery power. List likely causes and a step-by-step check. It suggests brownout, ground bounce, and decoupling. She tests the first two and finds a loose ground connection.

Before the review, she uses the Schematic & Design Review prompt in Claude to build a checklist for I2C pull-ups, power flags, and test points. She catches a missing pull-up and fixes the schematic. She leaves at five thirty instead of seven. She uses the time to cook dinner with her family and take a walk.

Before

  • Datasheets pile up faster than I can read.
  • Test plans wait until late afternoon.
  • Debugging guesses eat my evenings.
  • Software questions pull me from the bench.

After this course

  • Datasheets turn into clear notes.
  • Test plans start before lunch.
  • Debugging begins with likely causes.
  • Software gets clear interface notes.

What you'll learn

  • Ask clearly: Use plain prompts to get clear explanations of datasheets, protocols, and new tools.
  • Draft documents: Create structured design specs, test plans, and reports with AI help.
  • Compare parts: Summarize datasheets, compare components, and find possible alternatives.
  • Debug symptoms: Turn a symptom description into troubleshooting steps and likely causes.
  • Plan tests: Draft test cases and analyze prototype data to validate your hardware.
  • Write scripts: Get help writing and interpreting simulation scripts and testbenches.
  • Review designs: Prepare checklists for design reviews and catch common schematic pitfalls.
  • Work with software: Document interfaces and explain hardware behavior to software teams.

How this course works

  1. 9 lessonsOne task of your job each, from explain hardware concepts to compliance & vendor admin.
  2. Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
  3. Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
  4. Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.