Audio related degrees???

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

I started out the college the same way..... I was calling and emailing top companies and seeing what kind of credentials their engineers had. I started out my EE degree and quit because it was all Computer Science at the beginning. Now I am selling insurance //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif But I do have a Bachelors Degree in Business Management. I am considering opening up my own shop with that.

 

[gsuchyta 10+ year member]

good to hear some some feedback.

 

[bball09124 10+ year member]

Schools with Acoustic Engineering programs aren't all that common (at least in the colleges I have looked into). Auburn, Penn State, Univ. of Texas, Univ. of Houston, and Purdue have decent AE programs from what I've read.

I am in my first semester at FSU, taking business courses ATM. I need to make up my mind if I want to pursue Mechanical or Electrical engineering or stick with business before this year is up. If FSU had acoustic engineering I'd be doing it right now, but no college in Florida that I'm aware of has it. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Anybody have an opinion of if I would be better off coming out of college with a degree in either finance or accounting or ME/EE?

 

[Immacomputer 10+ year member]

I started going into electrical engineering...found out that nothing an EE does is even remotely related to anything audio. Then I switched and started taking AE courses...again nothing to do with car audio AT ALL (this is when I was 18)
Go into something that requires some type of skill and you'll make a lot more money to feed your hobbies

Energy is energy no matter what form. Whether you're dealing with electrical energy, acoustical energy, or mechanical energy, the physics are still the same. If you think that electrical engineering has nothing to do with acoustics, then you made the right choice to get out of engineering as you're not cut out to be an engineer. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

In all of my electrical engineering courses, I have found ways to relate the subject directly to audio as the physics are still the same.

With the skills I have learned in electrical engineering, I could go work for many different companies all with very different job descriptions. I could go design amplifiers, crossovers, speakers, headunits, and processors or I could go to work designing pro audio systems for churches, theaters, theme parks, sports arenas, etc. The reason why I could go do those things is because I have been equipped with the fundamentals of energy transfer and how to manipulate it to get a desired goal. Engineering school will teach you those basics and it's up to you and your employer to apply those basics to a specific use, which can definitely include any portion of car audio.