Hey All,
So I just recently been admitted to the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering as an undergraduate with a B.S. in electrical engineering. I was navigating through the website and I found this: http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/undergraduates/ee-curricular-requirements-and-department-information/ce-4-year-plan
Does that website indicate that people with Electrical Engineering majors can choose between 3 pathways? Ex. Computer engineering, Electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering?
If it does, when can EE students start filing what pathway they want to choose and also, are these pathways each impacted in some way that some students may not get their #1 pathway choice?
The three pathway options are actually no longer officially available for the class of 2018 and onward. That said, you can still take the classes in any of the pathway options if you want to. They have changed the curriculum a bit by adding more design courses you will need to take, but basically if one of the pathway options really appeal to you then you could go ahead and follow that path to getting your degree.
That said I also really recommend going to the engineering open house. Not only will you be able to see how you may fit with UCLA but you will also have the opportunity to talk to counselors and ask about how much flexibility there is if you want to more or less follow one of the old pathways to getting your degree. I am in the class of 2018 and had similar concerns to yours, and I know when I talked to the counselors they told me that now everything is more flexible in regards to what classes you may choose to take.
So I have the electrical engineering major, and I just think it’ll be good to have computer background in case I want to go to a graduate school like Berkeley EECS or other EECS programs. Since you said it’s very flexible, then does that mean I can take the 4 year plan of the computer engineering as a guideline? Or would you advise me to just switch to the computer engineering major?
I really want to attend the Open House, but my family’s schedule won’t allow me to stay at LA until Sunday b/c I have to be back at NorCal by Sunday. I will be attending the general Bruin’s day, although I guess it would be beneficial for me to find an EE person to talk to at UCLA.
You can’t just “take the 4 year plan of the computer engineering as a guideline” because it’s an entirely different major.
Also, don’t expect to be able to just randomly find an EE person to talk to at Bruin Day. Engineering focuses nearly all its efforts on Engineering Open House, and while there will be some Engineering representation at Bruin Day, it will be complete luck of the draw if one of the students volunteering there is an EE major.
If you look at the four year plan for the computer engineering option and the new four year plan they have given the class of 2018, they really only differ by a couple of classes. Also, even though there were official “options”, there was nothing on your degree acknowledging you chose one option and someone else chose another option. They all just said electrical engineering, so I am not sure what the previous post means by computer engineering is a completely separate major.
You should read this link for more updates about the curriculum changes:
http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/undergraduates/ee-curricular-requirements-and-department-information/curriculum-updates
There is a paragraph in there saying what you should do if you are interested in computer engineering.
Oh this is awesome. That’s all I needed. Thank you very much for this information you’ve answered my questions adequately.
BTW, the other guy was talking about a separate major called “computer engineering”, you should know it because you go to UCLA. And I just think it’d be good to have computer background, because I really don’t understand how my UCLA EE degree can allow me to apply to Berkeley’s EECS graduate program.
Thank you all very much.