Various experience by category (I don't think I'm embellishing here at all (and I hope not to), and being slightly modest maybe): Nanofabrication Vacuum systems - limited knowledge of design, but experience with disassembly and maintenance. RF Magnetron Sputter system (homegrown) - authorized to use solo, and pretty much do as I wish with it. Thermal evaporators and DC Sputter (modified in house) - Edwards models; authorized to use solo CAIBE systems (homegrown) - Never operated, but have observed usage several times. Oxford ICPRIE - Watched it used (Labview, simple enough), never operated on it, not authorized to use solo FEI Quanta ESEM - authorized to use solo for imaging FEI Nova 200/600 FIB - authorized to use solo (on 200) for imaging and ion milling. I can write Runscripts for automated milling. Leica EBPG 6000 - not authorized to use... at all, have made patterns for it in autocad (so little to no experience) Miscellaneous Mask aligners Microscopes Lasers and optics Ovens (the ones that go up to 1100 deg C) chemical processes that include resist, PMMA, HF, TMAH, and solvents. Microfluidic fab process with PDMS - Only did it once. DekTak profilometer Heidelberg DWL66 Mask writer - only a little experience, can make autocad patterns for them (don't know how to convert it to the right format exactly, but I don't think anyone in the group does since we have a laundry list of instructions) Semiconductor parameter analyzer - limited knowledge Optical spectrum analyzer - limit knowledge LabView - not proficient, but have debugged and made simple things in it Optical system alignment - Takes me longer than the grads in the lab, but I'm building experience. Electronics Digital System design - Made a digital oscilloscope for a project class with Altera FPGA. Building up experience. Debugging - A must when building a system. Analog Measurement - Can use scopes and know the very very basics of high frequency measurement. Um... - Built a 7 MHz CW radio for a class, but it was a follow-the-book thing. I have designed and built transistor amplifiers. I'm still learning. Theory Systems and control - Understand basic ideas of discrete and continuous time signal processing, and some control theory. Consumer Networking Maintenance/Design - did trivial maintenance in high school, designed subnets and home and dorm room. Computing Maintenance - This occupies quite a bit of my waking hours, both optimization and maintenance of computers in general. I'm tech support in the family. Software Operating systems Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP - extensive knowledge, can tweak them. Linux/*NIX - can use decently, have experience with Redhat, Fedora, SuSE, Debian, currently use Gentoo Mac OS - grew up on System 6, then 7, 8, 9, and X.*. Can do *NIX style development on it, not GUI stuff. I don't know Cocoa. Languages ASM - know 80186 (CISC) and Altera Nios (RISC) C - Love it. C++ - Can do. Java - Don't like it much, but can do. LaTeX - See my work! VC - Learning how to do more GUI stuff. VB - Grew up on VB3, but now my knowledge is obsolete QBasic - The good old days, my first programming language. Perl - Love it. Can whip up scripts to automate all kinds of things. Python - Sounds good, don't do it much. PHP - LOVE IT for weak typing. Can make simple web apps with MySQL. Worked on hardening the scripts for encrypted transfers. VHDL - Designed hardware blocks, state machines. I don't think I'm that good at it yet. Web languages HTML - Done it for ... ever. Love (insist on) standards compliance. CSS - See HTML. Like pushing it to its limits. See what I've done with it. JavaScript - Neat things I do with interactivity. See the graphinc calculator. Simulators Spice (Winspice) - Some thing all electrical engineers are expected to know how to use. FDTD - writing my own to do simpler simulations. Engineering/CAD/Design Altera Quartus - Used for Nios system development in VHDL Altium Protel - Can't make PCBs very well yet, still playing with it AutoCad - Terrible interface. Only good at making closed line structures (for mask designs :) Zemax - Optical system/lens design. Pure sciences Electromagnetics - reasonably proficient with Maxwell's type stuff. Differential equations - What other kinds of equations would you want to solve? :) Complex analysis - intriguing.