Double major in EE and mathematics?

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<p>I just finished my first year of school with a major in EE. However, I am thinking of picking up a double major with mathematics and am wondering whether it's worth it. I'll try and answer some of the obvious questions you may have regarding my situation:</p>

<p>1) I'm passionate about both of them. I'm not doing engineering for my career although, I will admit, my main reason in thinking about picking up a math major is simply because I love it and not because I want it to significantly affect my career. So, in a sense, I guess engineering is my "career" major. However, I am passionate about both of them and I want to work as an engineer.</p>

<p>2) It would involve extremely busy semesters (17 credits pretty much all the way through) as well as having to take two summer classes (those darn gen ed's get in the way).</p>

<p>3) After graduating, I'm thinking I'll work in the engineering industry for a couple years and then maybe go to grad school afterwards. Either way, I don't want to go to grad school right after getting my bachelor's.</p>

<p>4) I currently have declared a math minor. The math minor would be extremely easy to fit into my schedule and would hardly impact my course load at all. I'm simply wondering whether I should make the math minor a math major.</p>

<p>I'm just wondering whether any of you have any experience with an EE-math double major or any input as to things I should consider. My parents have said that I should think about whether I really want to take on an even heavier course load at the expense of a campus job or more of a social life so I am already thinking about that. Thoughts? Suggestions? Advice? Thanks!</p>

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<p>If there is no career or credentialing value for you in the math major (you are not planning to go on the a PhD program in math or something else that looks for a math major), why not just take the math courses that are interesting to you without worrying about whether they will complete a math major?</p>

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<p>I am kindof like you. I love ME, but I absolutely love math also. After completing a 6 month coop, I found that math knoweledge doesnt help that much. If I were you, I wouldn’t even do a minor. I would just take what I love as part of your technical electives.</p>

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<p>Honestly, in terms of getting a career outside of teaching, math as a single major is generally useless. My Bachelor’s is in math, and the opportunities I have had outside of teaching and bank jobs (risk analysis and management) are nonexistent. </p>

<p>I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time to complete the requirements for a math degree when you are already studying EE. EE is heavy with math so you would probably be taking at least 1/3 of the math courses math majors take. Make the EE degree your priority, and take math classes that you find interesting, and could possibly help you get into math graduate programs (if you think you’d be interested in that).</p>

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<p>I want to double major in ECE and Math. My aspirations are to complete the double major, go to grad school and complete masters for ECE. Then get hired at hardware company, and obtain a non thesis masters in math part time, once obtained I would like to teach part time at a local community college, 1-2 classes per semester</p>

<p>what is to be said about that?</p>