hello everybody. um, here's my problem and i need you guys to solve it for me. i'm in 3rd year Electrical Engineering. I've pretty much done all the required courses, and am now having difficulty choosing which option to specialize in for 4th year. i've looked around the usual ieee.org and googled for help, but not much answer. basically, the information i am looking for are 1. lists of a few of the more popular EE options (eg communications, etc) and their descriptions. 2. list of entry level salary and maybe after a few years of experience. 3. availability of jobs for those EE options 4. future outlook of those EE options 5. which EE option gets the most respect from engineers and babes alike. 6. level of difficulty of those EE options 7. some kind of statistics of EE students' major 8. and whatever else you guys can think of that i should consider i'm really looking forward to hearing from those working in the EE field and also other EE students that are either still studying or have graduated. engineering jokes from you funny guys are welcome too. (we do lab reports instead of nursing students. we are so lame)
Babes showing engineers respect? Don't get those hopes up too high, brah. But I do wish you a happy b-day.
Are you at UT? I'm going with Embedded Systems and Software Development myself... seems to be a good combination... complimentary, yet gives me some different aspects of the field... Oh and good luck with the whole "babes" thing...
no i'm in canada. software developement eh? um not for me. hate programming. but how did you decide on that? was it a long decision or you just looked at your grades and chose that?
Well I enjoy programming and I hate circuits so that made it easy enough... I used to be CS so that may be why... I'd say go with things you'll enjoy I've probably done better in my circuit classes, all A's I think, but that doesn't mean that they don't make me miserable!
I was undeclared engineer and declared to get out. I saw one girl in three classes, and I'm not even sure she was girl.
My tech area electives when I was an EE at Texas was Management and Production. There's still tremendous growth opportunities in the Quality/Reliability areas if you're an EE. If you end up in Quality, it's a perfect segway into the procurement/marketing side of the business.
Ok. 3 years out of the way... Take whatever will keep your GPA up. Companies seem to look hard at that GPA for new college hires.
A broke engineer is no different from a broke janitor to them. It's not about the profession or the degree... it's about the money. Remember that.
