<p>I'm majoring in EE.
I'm thinking of maybe minoring in MIS if possible.
Is this a sound decision?</p>
<p>One thing I’ve discovered in the “real world” is to never admit that you know how to wash dishes.</p>
<p>Work in my industry comes in waves. Keeping all the engineers busy all the time while not completely overworking them requires highly skilled managers, and even then, it’s a little hit-or-miss. In my old office, we found ourselves short on CAD drafters a lot. I’m reasonably competent with CAD, but I will never, ever admit it to anyone I work with. When one “CAD drafter” was shipped to our office for two weeks to help out with the CAD work, it wasn’t until the day before she left that she mentioned to us that she had a Masters degree in structural engineering (!!!). She was actually an engineer, but since the manager of her office had run out of work for her to do, and since she’d made it known that she knew how to draft, they sent her to our office to be a CAD operator for two weeks, which is kind of the structural engineering equivalent of being sent to mill aluminum parts for a few weeks. So, I feign ignorance when it comes to CAD. My knowledge may have helped me slightly in getting my first internship, but beyond that, my knowledge is only going to get in the way of my doing actual engineering work.</p>
<p>So if you have documented experience in MIS, and you work in a satellite office where there aren’t designated people to work in MIS, and your systems go down… Do you want to run the risk of being the information system fix-it guy? To me, that sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry, so I’d steer clear of it.</p>
<p>If you think it’ll help you more than it would get in your way, then go for it. It’s kind of your call as to what you’d be willing to do. It may make you more marketable, but you have to keep in mind that you should only market what you’re interested in actually <em>doing</em>, otherwise you’re going to be unhappy.</p>
<p>I think for EE a computer science minor will do you more good. CE is half CS and half EE.</p>
<p>Only minor in MIS if that’s what you want to do later on in life. Like for me, I’m minoring in Product Realization as a M E major because it’s part of product design/development and that’s what I want to get into. I’m not really sure what MIS is, but don’t do it because you think it would increase your salary. Do it because you’re interested and wouldn’t mind being in the field for a very long time.</p>
<p>what is the opinion on a math or physics minor?</p>
<p>More gear toward graduate school. It really doesn’t help as much as you think, its more an interest for yourself…</p>
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I doubt either of them would help if you want to work in industry after graduation.</p>
<p>At my school, math is probably the most common minor that EEs pick up because its only a couple of extra courses. And I wish my school offered a physics minor.</p>
<p>Neither will help you earn more money or make it easier to get a job though. The MIS “might” help you a little bit in getting a management related job, though I don’t think it will be worth it (just my opinion). Minors should be used simply to explore your interests.</p>
<p>I feel that minors as a whole do not give you a great competitive edge when it comes to employment, mostly since their requirements are pretty low and as engineer, most technical minors are a just a class or two away.</p>
<p>I have found that minors might only be applicable if you learn something very specific that happens to fit in with your job, such as geology for a PetroE. However most of the time, it is your major that lands you the job anyway. Though, one exception might be any minor associated with a Foreign Language–being a polyglot is always useful.</p>
<p>If there is a subject that you are interested in and want to just learn about it, by ALL means go ahead and minor in it. However, as aiibarr said, it might be better to spend the time and learn something industry specific (coding packages!) which will be much more marketable.</p>
<p>MIS has nothing to do with management related job. Taking CS classes may be helpful. There is a good chance that you will work with SW engineers or write control programs by yourself on your EE jobs. Or take other electives in EE major. Or take EE graduate courses if you are allowed to.</p>
<p>Industrial engineering and economics are the big two if you wanna get into management. If you’re just going for engineering a double major/minor won’t help you.</p>
<p>Minor in math if majoring in EE.</p>
<p>Similar to the OP’s question, I am an IE interested in going into management/finance after graduating. The two minors I was exploring were business and technical entrepreneurship. I’m leaning towards entreneurship since I think it’ll be more useful but will picking one over the other make a big difference when pursuing my goal of getting into management/finance?</p>
<p>Look into a double major…Maybe EE+CS or EE+Math looks good.</p>
<p>I’m thinking about doing a double major in math and computer engineering, but is there any point in doing computer engineering with math or should i just do math and ee?</p>
<p>A minor in math as an engineer is basically saying you took one maybe two math electives. I don’t feel its worth doing unless those courses are actually going to help you. An employer isn’t going to hire you because of your minors anyway. As for double majoring in math and EE, I honestly would just do the EE degree and get working right away. Unless you can somehow do the double major in 4 years…</p>
<p>Now an EE with a CS minor makes more sense to me. It opens up more job opportunities if you should decide to go a different route.</p>
<p>If you have time to kill in your schedule, go for it. If doing the minor or double major is going to cause you to fall behind and not finish in 4 years, don’t bother. It really is not important. With an EE degree you already have pretty much the most flexible degree jobwise out there. Having that extra math or physics minor isn’t going to matter to any company who wants to hire you.</p>
<p>Let’s say we want to do something with product design/development in the future. Would an engineering design minor (or something along these lines) help for employment and salary if we have a degree in M E, EE, or whatever?</p>
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<p>i have been trying to do this, but because ee and math are in different schools i need to do all the school of LAS requirements such as a language which isn’t required for engineering, so it is more than just a few more math classes 
hopefully i can get around this</p>