<p>Im a rising high school senior, and I am look at various majors. I was wondering what do electrical engineers have to be good at and do they do a lot of programming. I am good at math but Im not great. Also, what type of work do electrical engineers do exactly. I have no programming knowledge whatsoever so far.</p>
<p>SAT math level 2 score:780
SAT chem score:760
I get A-'s in my math classes which were Algebra2/trig, and Precalc Honors so far. i got about 91's in all of my math classes.</p>
<p>All engineering requires significant levels of math and some programming. EE’s can do more programing than most, but some of that is based on which electives you choose. For example, if you specialize in computers, communications and systems, you’ll do more programing than electromagnetics, power and photonics. </p>
<p>The math is doable, as long as you put the effort into it (some need to do more than others), and you will learning programing while in college. You’ll have a pretty good idea if you can handle the math after your first year.</p>
<p>The following link show you UF’s EE curriculum which is typical for must colleges (some have more/different electives, others less). Also, some colleges will allow you to specialize in areas other than the ones listed by UF. So use UF as an example, but exam the curriculums at the schools you may be targeting. </p>
<p>Notice how the last two semesters are almost completely filled by electives. </p>
<p><a href=“Electrical Engineering < University of Florida”>https://catalog.ufl.edu/ugrad/current/engineering/majors/electrical-engineering.aspx</a></p>
<p>electrical is one of the most math heavy fields in engineer. Being good at highschool math is a great start though, my advice is keep studying the algebra, trig, precalc, and even throw in some geometry (it actually is important)</p>
<p>A lot of people think geometry is redundant but its the best topic for an introduction to abstract thinking and proofs, the coolest part is going back to algebraic techniques you’ve learned like “completing the square” and proving it geometrically. Also geometry is where you can first learn of vectors (which are terribly important)</p>
<p>If you feel daring you can attempt some calculus</p>
<p>the math that EE’s use that most others don’t are things like Partial Differential Equations (namely the Maxwell Equations) and Complex Analysis (revolves around complex numbers, like anything of the form a+bi were i=sqrt(-1))</p>