Ep.21 (Part 1 of 2): How to be an RF Engineer, and the Hardware Product Development cycle | Interview with Mikhail Eñano

About the guest: Mikhail Eñano is a Product Design and Development engineer for Toshiba Japan, where he is part of the Telecommunication Systems Equipment Design group. He has 5 years of experience in product design, evaluation, and troubleshooting of RF products, mainly equipments for Satellite Communications. He has a bachelor's degree in ECE from UP Diliman, and he was a part of the Wireless Communications Engineering Laboratory (WCEL).

In this episode we talked about:

• The products being developed in the Telecommunications Systems Equipment Group of Toshiba Japan
• What are RF products, and what do RF engineers do?
• The different kinds of RF engineers
• The products/projects he has been involved in so far
• Some of his patent applications, and the patent application process in Japan
• The different teams and different kinds of engineers involved in the development of a product
• The stages in the product development cycle: design, prototype, development, production, support
• What's unique about this process when it comes to RF products
• The different certifications and evaluations of electronic products, and how they are conducted
• The most challenging and rewarding aspects of the job of an RF engineer
• Why RF engineers are important and will never become obsolete
• Current challenges and exciting researches in wireless communications