<p>If so, what has to be done? Do you have to take Pre-reqs or something?</p>
<p>Surprisingly I'm just learning, after finally signing up for this site recently, that people are going to grad school for all sorts of things whether it perfectly matches your undergrad degree or not. I'm wondering roughly how that would work for an undergrad ME major who went for a masters in EE. Thanks.</p>
<p>Whoever answers this please don’t say “well why not do EE in your undergrad?”, if the guy wanted to do it he would’ve done it already, he’s trying to consider other options. I know because I’m in his position too. From what I’ve heard, it seems that you can, but you won’t be as competitive as others. Your best bet would be to do an EE minor at the same time in your undergrad, but I am also waiting to see if anyone has gone to an EE master a from an ME bachelor a without a minor.</p>
<p>Certainly, if you can get accepted.
You’ll have to take a few more classes that EEs already took though. If that’s not a problem, then you can. Might want to take EE electives to be sure you want to do that though.</p>
<p>The only problem is the prerequisites required. You can most likely find enough classes to choose that you could slide through without having to take precursor courses. HOWEVER, the point of the graduate degree isn’t to just earn a degree, its to help you specialize with more advanced material. Hence, you will undoubtedly find trouble scheduling courses you want to take rather then need to take. The EE courses are HEAVILY burdened with prerequisites.</p>
<p>As others have said, the issues you’ll run into are all about prereqs. You can probably take them as engineering electives as an undergrad or as a non degree student post-bac before you get accepted into the grad program. </p>
<p>I’m a bs/ms student in EE - here’s what most of my grad classes want as prereqs:</p>
<p>2-3 classes in circuits (mechE’s take the first class at my school, so you might as well?)
Electromagnetics
Signals and Systems (some schools break it into discrete & continuous, mine has them lumped together)
Digital signal processing
Digital logic</p>
<p>I personally lack dsp, as it’s a (miserable) elective I have zero interest in, and will avoid all grad classes that require it. I have dig logic but hate it, so will also avoid those classes.
The two you really can’t avoid are EMag & SigSys (and the first 2 of the circuit classes at my school) - but that’s not surprising because they’re part of the required core.</p>
<p>Is it possible, or beneficial, to double major or minor in ME+EE?</p>
<p>I’m taking electricity and magnetism 1 and 2 as physics electives. Not sure if those count. Also, yes, I’ll have to take one circuits course for ME. The rest I’ll talk to the school about. My schools working on adding a huge new engineering complex with many added courses. I’m sure many of the prereqs will show up there.</p>
<p>E&M probably counts. My school does not allow EE’s to use the physics versions to bypass the engineering version (because it’s more theoretical and might be a financial thing between engineering & artsci), but physics students who wish to take EE electives that have EMag as a prereq are permitted (obviously only if they’ve taken E&M). </p>
<p>If it wasn’t obvious, different schools also have different names for EMag. Some call it E&M, others call it EM Waves, etc.</p>
<p>Edit: are you asking because your school does not have EE? This might be a long shot, but if your school has industrial or systems engineering, SigSys might be offered through those departments.</p>
<p>“Is it possible, or beneficial, to double major or minor in ME+EE?”</p>
<p>Chardo -</p>
<p>I would probably start another thread about this, because this is a different topic. An ME/EE combination is very valuable in industry, as almost anything mechanical has an electronic component these days. </p>
<p>It’s almost a running gag at most companies that the EE group doesn’t understand anything mechanical and the the ME group doesn’t understand anything electrical. That’s a generalization with both truth and fiction in it, but many companies are eager to find an engineer who knows both sides.</p>
<p>Some schools offer electromechanical engineering or mechatronics. Other people major in one of these disciplines and minor in another one, or take some courses in the other discipline.</p>
<p>I would guess that it’s possible at some schools to double major in these two areas, but will leave it to others on this board to answer that, as I don’t know the answer.</p>
<p>You will (as others have said) have to take some prerequisites prior to admission to the MS program. Question I would ask you is what are you trying to do with those degrees? Can you tailor your MS program to achieve your goal and maybe minimize the prerequisites that you will need.</p>
<p>My son is in the somewhat same position. He got a BS in ME with a concentration in mechatronics (robotics to my way of thinking) and is working in that field. He took a fair number of quasi electrical engineering classes as part of his BS degree. He is looking to fill out his EE prerequisites at one of the CalState colleges and then apply to the UC near him in EE for his masters. Will take him some time to get where he wants to go, but it is a plan.</p>