Took it because the EE department advisors recommended it to get an 'diverse overview' of what the industry is like... I disagree. This is just a speaker series class where a different EE alumni comes back to talk about what they do, how they got to where they are, and a bit about what their experience with UCLA was like (which won't matter much because on average they all graduated 10 years ago). Every single one of them talks about how they do a lot of CS in their day-to-day lives, some are in management, almost all of them have worked for Raytheon, it's not really interesting. Someone has to swipe everyone in for attendance. Every class they leave time for questions, and no one asks any. All that was asked in terms of work was to write a short a paragraph highlighting 3 take-aways for every lecture, never took me longer than 30 min. I wouldn't say it's a complete waste of time, but many of my peers would.

If this class isn't required, don't take it. It's just a bunch of "industry experts" coming in and saying how despite being electrical engineers, they spend most of their time coding. This is the opposite of inspiring and kind of disappointing to anyone who is an electrical engineer hoping not to go into coding. Or maybe it's meant to be a harsh reality--either way, it's a waste of time. Attendance is mandatory (they swipe your BruinCard) but you can usually leave after getting swiped if you're sneaky about it. Also, there's a few assignments assigned for random lectures--I'd only skip the ones you have friends attending or the very previous time there was an assignment.