<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I was just wondering if all engineering schools have electrical engineering students pick a specialty or if most schools just give students a general electrical engineering education. I assume that even if schools don't have their students pick specialties, a student could still specialize by picking classes pertaining to what they want to learn?</p>
<p>Another question is how much would a degree in physics benefit an engineer? I know that physics is a major part of engineering and was wondering if a dual degree in physics and engineering would be worth while.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>I am pretty sure Purdue had the option of specializing in various fields (basically taking more electives related to it). I don’t remember if we HAD TO specialize, but I don’t think we did. If we did I made sure that I was as un-specialized as possible and took classes in just about everything (except power).</p>
<p>A physics degree will not be that useful and will probably be a waste of time.</p>
<p>If you want to do a dual degree, do math and EE. Math is fun fun fun!!!</p>
<p>Are you talking about a minor? If so, find something which complements the degree and puts one in a desirable niche (if one has found one already). I am minoring in engineering management since engineering is collaborative in nature.</p>
<p>I was just wondering about a Physics degree because many schools offer them as a dual major with Electrical Engineering and I was wondering how much of an advantage it would be to exercise that option. </p>
<p>Many schools also give the option of an Electrical/Computer dual major combination. Would this have a decent amount of advantages? Computer Engineering is basically a branch off of Electrical so doing a dual major in this would basically just be the same as majoring in Electrical Engineering with a concentration on CompE?</p>
<p>It seems most schools offer the opportunity to specialize, but I have rarely seen it as an “official” option. It usually just seems to take the form of tailoring your electives into a subfield and saying you specialized.</p>
<p>Physics is the backbone of engineering, but physics majors have a different approach than engineers. In general, it certainly can’t hurt, but it won’t necessarily be that helpful to have a dual major in physics and engineering. However, I could see it being useful if you were either an electrical engineer or materials scientist if you dual majored in physics with electives tailored to condensed matter physics. There are probably some other interesting combinations like that in other fields as well (Aerospace Engineering mixed with Mechanics and Relativity or something, perhaps?).</p>
<p>I think that there are different tracks of EE just based on what electives you take. I’m doing telecommunications.</p>