DEPTH of study in ECE

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<p>This has been something which has been bothering me for a while.
I'm into embedded systems right now but it doesn't seem like there's a lot of depth to it. Surely you can improve your skills through practical experience and so forth, but if you compare it to something like wireless communications, well, the latter just seems like a lot more of a deep field. If you look at graduate programs in EE, they seem to have a lot of courses in communications, signal processing, and VLSI, but in terms of embedded systems it seems like there isn't that much more to learn (at least in class) after a while.</p>

<p>Correct me if I am mischaracterizing the field.</p>

<p>These are the concentrations in EE that are offered at my school:
Undergraduate</a> Handbook: BSEE Degree Requirements and Policies - UWEE</p>

<p>Do you guys see anything listed there (or maybe not listed there but available at other schools, or something in the CSE field) which you feel would be matching my interests? To really learn a very challenging field in a lot of depth perhaps at the grad level? I really want to specialize in something unique rather than just have a broad skillset...I guess the level of challenge and the level of depth are what interest me the most.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>for embedded systems you basically deal with one component: the CMOS. </p>

<p>the CMOS are basically on and off switches that contain both an NMOS and a PMOS. but you should not understimate it… you can do amazing things with the CMOS. basically you could construct gates with logic from it and all of the modern technology devices have the CMOS as a basic building block much like how the cell is a basic building block of a person.</p>

<p>i may be wrong but you just basically deal with the CMOS in your field of interest.</p>

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<p>I just don’t want to learn some basic stuff and graduate from college, and then just rehash my knowledge for the rest of the career. Thanks for the reassurance about my concentration choice, by the way.</p>

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<p>I imagine there’s almost no chance you’ll be doing the same thing 20 years down the road as what you’re doing right in college, even if you do stay in the same subfield. Technology changes, and you’ll have to change with the technology.</p>