Wait , how do Australia treat their indigenous population worse than America ? ?<| sep |> It ' s honestly a gamble , some professors are more industry related than others I ' ve heard good things about George Shaker , and you can get great experience if you show that you ' re competent . You need to earn the professors trust , and if you do , you can get more intense involvement in circuit prototypingsoftware designdatabase stuffexperimental design etc . But all things considered , if you get a shitty PhD studentpostdoc who doesn ' t really know what they ' re doing , you could get unlucky and get very little . The onus is really on you to find a good professor that matches your career interests and prove yourself to himher .