<li><p>Do electrical engineers design CPU’s, graphics cards, and motheboards for pc’s and cellphones or computer engineers? </p></li>
<li><p>I’m very interested in those things as well as monitors, lcd screens, and oled screens? Do electrical engineers play a big role in designing them or do chemical engineers do these things?</p></li>
<li><p>If I get a degree in EE and I get a MBA later could I go into engineering as well as finance (specifically banking and i-banking)?</p></li>
<li><p>Are electrical engineers one of the best paid engineers? And how hard is it to make 100k+?</p></li>
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<li><p>Both EE's and CE's are involved in this but I would say mostly EE's with Phd's actually do the circuitry design. The CE/SE's work mostly with the embedded software.</p></li>
<li><p>EE's,</p></li>
<li><p>With an MBA you can pretty much get into most business settings. </p></li>
<li><p>EE's are pretty much average payed for engineers. Only petroleum and chemical engineers tend to make a bit more than others. I wouldn't say its hard to make 100k it just involves working in the industry for many years and acquiring a higher position.</p></li>
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<p>You could def. get into IB with an EE degree, but you would need a 3.7+ (more like 3.85-4.0) GPA. You wouldn't need the MBA, just the EE degree.</p>
<p>JoeJoe05, I believed that PhD EE are more into research than anything that's industrial. A master's should suffice for any kind of industrial work, I thought. (I keep imagining them in a college setting, please correct me if I've misconstrued something)</p>
<p>The design of the circuitry for a motherboard, cpu, or what have you is not industrial work. The companies that make these things are large and generally only have very educated and experienced people working on the design. </p>
<p>Perhaps with cellphones but with motherboards, CPUs (especially CPU's), and graphics cards its more difficult to get into a position designing circuitry. Phd's are definitely not just into research, especially those with an engineering degree.</p>
<p>Most EE people who do VLSI circuit layout of that kind will have masters degrees. </p>
<p>You'll find some layout designers who have bachelors or phd, but typically bachelors doesn't get more than a semester into VLSI layout (which is typically insufficient) and phd's are usually more in R&D than something like layout. </p>
<p>I agree that phd's often do much more than research in industry, but you absolutely don't need a phd at all if you want to do circuit design and layout.</p>
<p>Yea I was exaggerating a bit but if he wants to get into circuitry he should really get a masters in EE not an MBA.</p>
<p>Not to mention the experience you would need to even get a design position in the first place, you will have to be in the field for quite a while...</p>
<p>morning.... carbien.prospective graduate of polytechnic institute of brooklyn
E/E. please talk me about this institution....thanks.</p>
<p>1.not really
2.yes
3. some people got into banks after they earned BS degree immediately
4.no</p>
<p>Anyone know what kind of pay these hardware design EE make at companies like ATI, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, IBM, etc. with say 10-15 years experience in the field? </p>
<p>Is it high compared to other EE jobs?</p>
<p>Crazy work hours?</p>
<p>Does your experience become "obsolete" as tech evolves? </p>
<p>Do you have to have a masters to get into the computer hardware design industry or can a BS squeak in? </p>
<p>This field seems interesting to me but i am worried about becoming obsolete.
Also i'm not too fond of programming will that matter a lot on the hardware side of things?</p>
<p>it's too early to think of the salary after 10 years.
you will change a lot in the future.</p>
<p>experience is extremely valuable for hardware EE job,like IC design.</p>