Since I discovered for myself the hackaday.com website, my views on software engineering have changed. We (software engineers) are so wrapped into multiple abstraction layers of operating environments, high-level programming languages, libraries and frameworks, that we rarely see anything further than the next abstraction layer.

I start to think that a software engineering programs at the universities do not produce engineers, but some kind of middleware between the framework developers and the end users. Please assure me that I am wrong, and your software engineering graduates know how a microcontroller works or at least know how to read a circuit scheme.