<p>To all current and future EE's</p>
<p>What drew you to electrical engineering? What concentrations (computers, electromagnets, signals, ect. ect.) are you most interested in?</p>
<p>As of right now, I'm about 99% sure this will be my major when i start college next fall, so I just wanted to hear opinions of it from others who are interested.</p>
<p>It's hard, high paid, and uses CAD and lots of math. I hate learning computers. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be doin EE (just finished first year).</p>
<p>i'm actually in EE with a concentration in BME. i plan on attending law school after undergrad engineering, and EE is very broad and definitely one that will seriously challenge me. i dont like programming very much either, but i haven't really experienced the need of CAD in EE; i dont believe a computer graphics type course is required for EE's at our school, only for ME, CE, and construction engr.</p>
<p>awesome guys, i can't wait to get started</p>
<p>There is a lot of breadth in EE. You can specialize in anything from almost pure math (signal processing) to almost pure physics (electromagnetics, semiconductors, and materials) and anything in between (circuits, computer hardware, etc.). Right now I'm a PhD student concentrating in semiconductors, specifically the area of integrated circuit fabrication processes.</p>
<p>im_blue, since signal processing is almost pure math, do you think it would benefit a student who was looking into that concentration to have a double major with EE and math?</p>
<p>A double major in math would probably entail taking theoretical classes like real analysis, complex analysis, and abstract algebra, so in that sense it wouldn't help a lot for signal processing, which uses more applied stuff like Fourier series, Fourier and Laplace transforms. Coincidentally, I doubled majored with math and it hasn't helped much for my grad studies, so you shouldn't do it just for that purpose.</p>
<p>i chose EE cause the name sounded cool... had nothing to do with how much they got paid. </p>
<p>im not sure what i want to get into, but i have narrowed it down to: circuits, machine intellligence, signals and systems, or communications</p>
<p>proton, I'm in your boat. I was interested in it because it sounded exciting, and that was way before I knew anything about pay.</p>
<p>I like: signals, control, and communications</p>
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<p>i also didn't know how damn hard it was too!</p>
<p>yeah i definitely thought about majoring in math, but decided against it. i finished all my math requirements by the end of the my 1st year, and decided probably not to go on and get my math minor (which requires an additional 2 classes, which both must be either some sort of rigorous analysis class and/or abstract algebra class). i haven't taken partial differential eqns yet so i will probably take that as my last math class sometime in the future.</p>
<p>I chose EE based on the recommendations of; my physics teacher, and many friends that are either currently enrolled in it (a slight bias) or are practicing engineers.</p>
<p>i chose EE because all my friends were doing it and girls get really turned on at parties when i start talking about E-fields and electromagnetics. i mean just the other day i told a girl that she must've been an integral becuase i sure as hell wanted to find the area underneath those curves. she thought it was particularly clever and i have been dating her ever since.</p>
<p>really?? that's another motivation to do EE lol</p>
<p>you can also make plenty of jokes about the right hand rule.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>good times with the right hand rule from physics...ah the memories</p>
<p>it only works if the women you meet like to date immature men. (me)</p>