<p>Have you had any experience with breadboarding, Multisim and Matlab? Experience is gold when it comes to things like software, and hands-on stuff. It is probably more that you haven’t had enough practice with those, rather than that you are actually incompetent. Plus, scientists will still need to know how to do those things…</p>
<p>I took a circuits class with a bunch of mechEs once. Breadboards aren’t that hard to figure out, but they still took three times as long as I did to build an h bridge; it’s just a lot easier to do things efficiently when you’ve had a lot of practice. </p>
<p>Also don’t guys discourage you based on your sex. There will always be people like that, but you have to realize they are just ignorant @$$holes.</p>