<p>EE and ECE. Read my post again, it’s there.</p>
<p>@drgoogle okay good ill go with your word then, some person tried to scare me by telling me i need to know a lot of physics to succeed in engineering, and someone else told me i need to know the second part which is E & M which i would also need the material from the mechanical physics part, but you just saved my career thanks.</p>
<p>No don’t trust me but there was a lot of misleading information. I also got very good engineering GPA despite heavy course load.</p>
<p>so you were trying to mislead me ? @drgoogle</p>
<p>No do your own research. Don’t listen to anybody. If things don’t work out, you can’t blame somebody on the internet. Remember this is my experience.</p>
<p>Lol, good point. I guess I will, Thanks though you were most helpful ;D How is your career going by the way ?</p>
<p>It’s going great. I’m on track to retire this year at 55.yay!</p>
<p>Oops I meant next year at 55.</p>
<p>EE and its subdivision can be either very heavy in the physics or very heavy in the mathematics, for example signal processing is very heavy in math; semiconductors and electromagnetics is more physics </p>
<p>obviously all fields use both but f, but if math and physics were a seesaw some fields will lean more one way than the other</p>
<p>@imurhuckleberry okay thanks for that info! 
@drgoogle aww im so happy for you!! Happy soon to be retirement ;D </p>
<p>There are “Engineers” with no degree. There are Computer Engineers who left physics behind long ago. Ditto with technical managers and policy think-tank wonks. It depends on what you do with your degree. If you want to enter the fields of electromagnetic theory and push forward the frontiers, you may not find great job satisfaction without a solid grasp of Physics, but there are many other paths to success and happiness.</p>
<p>@itsjustschool thanks! ;D whats your major ?</p>
<p>What works are available for electromagnetics field out there? I did EMI shielding for something wireless but that kind of work is also not as widely available out there, as in you can’t find any work. Mine was like the little antenna for Apple.</p>
<p>@Shipsarecool Physics is very important for EE’s (it’s needed to understand just about every EE focus). However, many schools use the Calculus-based physics courses to weed Engineering majors. Don’t be discouraged if you struggle in physics, just study hard and try your best. Your EE classes will probably review the physics you need. Also, the majority of Electrical Engineering programs require an advanced Electromagetics course taught by the EE department (if they don’t, I’d question the credibility of the program ). So you’ll have plenty of time to learn!</p>
<p>Major- Electrical Engineering (senior)
Current Electrical Engineering Co-op at Raytheon Missile Systems </p>
<p>@DrGoogle, there is actually a fair amount of work in E&M right now. At the device level, there is a lot of work in analyzing what is going on in very small scales (for example, the field distribution with a transistor field on an IC). At the system level, EMI is an increasing problem that needs work and there is also a lot of work in RF and THz circuitry. And there is still a lot of work in antenna design and remote sensing. I started out in E&M and worked in that field for a few years before jumping to the optical side.</p>
<p>@Shipsarecool, ECE is diverse enough that if you can graduate with a decent resume, you can find work that will be light on the E&M. Graduating will generally require getting through a freshman/sophomore E&M class (which is not too hard IMO), as well as a junior-level advanced E&M course which can be pretty rough something like 25% of each class at my alma mater flunked in a given semester.</p>
<p>I did my BSEE at Penn State, my MSEE at Johns Hopkins, and am working on my PhD in ECE at UIUC, if that matters. I have about 5 years experience in the field as a technician (pre BSEE) and another 8 years as a working engineer.</p>
<p>@cosmicfish thanks for the info!! ;D And goodluck on your PhD! ;D</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity how much time do you put into studying? When I switched into Civil engineering originally I put in the minimum, but that quickly changed when I started physics. I used to have a study group I coordinated that I would meet up with once or twice a week just to do homework. Then on the weekends before the exam I would usually study for a minimum of 20 hours with a group, and that is just pure studying, not including homework. I went from feeling like a failure to achieving the highest grade in both semesters of physics. I’m not a gifted student or anything, I just put in the time and effort. If I hadn’t studied like I did, I probably would have got at most a C if I was lucky. </p>
<p>Also to answer your original question, yes I guess you can. Although if anything, this is just a good intro to be able to learn how to grasp difficult concepts. </p>
<p>@civilmechanical honestly, the amount of time studying isn’t my problem, I feel like im just forgetting a lot of the material once it starts to cumulate, I need to find ways to put knowledge into my longterm memory rather than my short term memory where i only use it for the exams then just forget some stuff… Im wierd I know. =/</p>
<p>Are you just memorizing facts, formulae, and the recipes for solving a given problem or are you actually spending time trying to learn the fundamentals from which those other things are drawn?</p>
<p>@boneh3ad hmm… that’s a good question… when I think about it, I think im just trying to find patterns when solving the problems, but I sometimes try to see if it would make sense which I still can’t understand that way, do you think that’s my problem ?</p>