Well I'm not exactly one of the either well soon-to-be anyway. I'm actually a Multimedia Artist whom excels greatly in my Audio Engineering and Videography side of my work. I don't think I'm exactly intelligent since I totally suck at math these days nor do I have a Logical side so to speak from a car accident that happened some years ago. Though I will say this I have maintained my College Algebra to an extent and am relearning my Calculus and Trigonometry before heading into either fields as I do have a bit of trouble working with HTML5, Java, and C# in my field. I still need to learn Macromedia Flash, which I have not since I am forced to discontinue my research to obtain my degree there isn't a big enough market yet for this trending job due to the fact like the CE people rather have dedicated operators to operate their devices rather than someone who has dabbled in it. Though it is a pain to have to keep track of all of the codecs out there on the web.
Any light to which path I should take at a B.S. Level? As well as the many to describe their importance would be much obliged ^^
Thanks,
-Lunabelle
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Truthfully, I wouldn't go CE, it's basically just a specialized EE. I've never seen an employer who would only hire CEs, but I've seen plenty who will only hire EEs.
I'm about 2 quarters away from my BS in EE and have quite a few friends who have switched over from CE for that very reason.
EECS are all extremely similar. It really depends how much programming you want to do. Even as EE you probably will have a semester or two of it plus some kind of microcontroller programming course. As a freshman the courses are probably identical so you're able to switch very easily, so it doesn't matter what you choose at first..
IMO, it's better to get an EE that specializes in programming than a CE. That way you have almost identical skills, but a more generalized degree that more employers look for.
I also think that is the case but I'm biased because I picked EE.
You can go into so many things: power, computing, software, defense, automotive, etc.
I would go EE or CS (depending on what you like more), CE is too narrow imo
Well I like the interest of coding, but I don't think I can keep up with all the loops, functions, methods, and short-hand jargon. But with circuitry it's pretty fascinating even though I've never worked with any of it yet, except in High School, but it has been a bit since I've done any mostly working with lights and switches. I prefer working with my wires, keyboards, and mics. Hypothetically speaking... Of the near-graduating EE's do any of them use their imagination in their field or is it purely taken from a logical stand point?
EDIT: There's no doubt about it requiring tough math and statistics with a flourish of detail-orientated logic, but how much of that higher-level math is used on a daily basis. Some of that is put in there to weed out the students not willing to put in the work, right?!
EE will use high end calculus until your very last class. It's the most mathematically difficult engineering from what I've heard. We do everything from Fourier transforms (basically in ever class), statistics, random processes, vector calculus, signal processing (z-transforms), etc. all with a purpose of creating something new.
It's not just there to "weed out" people... the work is impossible without it. You get to the point where calculus is just normal everyday type of stuff.
Yes, but how much of that Calculus would you use in your Field after College on a daily basis?
[QUOTE=Lunabelle;38670782]Yes, but how much of that Calculus would you use in your Field after College on a daily basis?[/QUOTE]
Purely depends on your field. Communications/RF design would use it all the time I assume, but like any other field the more cutting edge you are the more math you will use. There are computer modeling programs (MATLAB, SIMULINK, etc.) that will do a lot of it for you, but only if you know how to use it. As an example, every engineering job interview I've heard of has a technical part where they, 1 on 1, test your ability to do the math.
Yes, but you even have to know if they the program is lying to you as well. It's odd though... No one teaches kids how to do math by hand anymore it's all calculator this and calculator that. However it is fixed to the knowledge it contains.
[QUOTE=Lunabelle;38670970]Yes, but you even have to know if they the program is lying to you as well. It's odd though... No one teaches kids how to do math by hand anymore it's all calculator this and calculator that. However it is fixed to the knowledge it contains.[/QUOTE]
I, personally, know how to do all the math that the program is doing... but it gets to the point where it's essentially impossible to do it by hand. For example: Let's say I have a system with 50 poles... it would be essentially impossible to find stability by hand, but MATLAB can do it in a couple minutes.
For us we actually have less math courses than CS. We do two semesters of calc, linear algebra, differential equations, and an applied stats course. As far as I can tell the examples you do in there are more complex than in any actual major-related courses. You do it so much it all goes from intimidating to simple very quickly. imo it's way less frustrating to learn math than to spend hours searching for where you missed a semicolon in you code.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;38671053]For us we actually have less math courses than CS. We do two semesters of calc, linear algebra, differential equations, and an applied stats course. As far as I can tell the examples you do in there are more complex than in any actual major-related courses. You do it so much it all goes from intimidating to simple very quickly. imo it's way less frustrating to learn math than to spend hours searching for where you missed a semicolon in you code.[/QUOTE]
I don't know, I find I've learned as much math in my engineering classes as I have in my math classes. It's just a lot more specified.
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