electrical engineering...

[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

i got to thinking today and i found out that after i get out of auto tech school and have a few years of field work under my belt, i want to go back to school and get an electrical engineering degree and eventually a doctorate...i doubt there are any engineers on this site but if there are could u tell me about it. thx.

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[djman37 5,000+ posts]

might not wanna wait too long to get started on your doctorate. 4 years or so for bachelors, maybe 3 for masters, then around 4 more for doctorate. Get a job after your bachelors and get your employer to pay for your masters for you!

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

Doctorate is gonna be a long time coming.

What you should do, is go back to school after the bachelors, and then get an mba.

 

[Untouchable11 10+ year member]

I started out with EE, but switched to Biomedical Engineering... I'll come out with a Mechanical Degree, but I will be able to go to med school if I prefer...

EE, I figured would be cool and all, but the actual professor drove me away from it...

 

[Heresy 10+ year member]

I started out trying to get my BS as a EE but switched to another degree last year. I have taken the first ~2-3 years of the EE classes which aren't a cakewalk by any means. The freshmen courses consist of C programming, digital logic, and DC circuit analysis. After that you get bombarded with EE specific math courses that show you how to deal with the differential equations you get when you start incorporating inductors and capacitors into your circuits then it is off to device electronics i.e. op-amps, BJTs, MOSFETs, diodes, etc. I never liked the math so I changed my degree but I enjoyed understanding how transistors worked and fully grasping how filters worked.

If you get past all the classes with 100+ students and into the small classes where you actually interact with your professors, the classes become more fun albeit still hard. So, if you can make it past all the foundation classes to where you can actually start figuring out things instead of just memorizing things and you find you like it, you might want to try for a Ph. D.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Depends on the school you go to, but if you're considering EE I hope you'll like being able to tutor the mathematics majors //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

There's a reason at VTech engineering is called pre-business by a lot of the students...

 

[MetalMaxima 10+ year member]

i want to go back to school and get an electrical engineering degree and eventually a doctorate.

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Wow, get past your freshman year, learn what it means to EARN A DOCTORATE and get back to us on that one.

 

[engineerdude 10+ year member]

yeah-- good posts on this one.. i just graduated a few weeks ago with a degree in EE-- i went in for car audio..but learned too much about other shit.. to be honest.. the only reason you're gonna want a PHD is if you wanna teach.. I've been looking for a job in the industry for about five months now.. and almost got a job with bose--but thats the only company i've heard back from. ..if I were you.. I would go for the EE if you want.. and study up on the industry--the classes will teach how amplifiers work, but not how to get a job designing them...I might sound bitter.. but it's just because i spent the last five years slaving over second order differential equations and other stuff.. i love audio--and thats why i went into EE and I am glad I did it..by the way-- dude was right about tutoring the math majors..I was a TA for a graduate mathematics class--that doesn't make much sense..

 

[jaygeorge1979 10+ year member]

im in my junior year of an EE degree...everything these other guys are saying is true...its alot of math, and its also alot of fun learning how everything works...its just so stinkin hard...i'll be proud of myself when i graduate

 

[GemaRastem 10+ year member]

I am currently studying electrical engineering at MSOE, pm me if you would like info.

 

[BoominBeast]

i got to thinking today and i found out that after i get out of auto tech school and have a few years of field work under my belt, i want to go back to school and get an electrical engineering degree and eventually a doctorate...i doubt there are any engineers on this site but if there are could u tell me about it. thx.

I am getting My ME undergrad. Itsnot easy let me tell you that.

Lots of work and proscrastination. Lots of Math. You will take Cal 1, II, III, differential, linear equation, Physics, chemistry , and major specific courses.

Expect no life during the week days. sleep, On weekends more free time and less pressure cause you have a feew more hours to do work.

naw but its not that bad,

 

[BoominBeast]

i got to thinking today and i found out that after i get out of auto tech school and have a few years of field work under my belt, i want to go back to school and get an electrical engineering degree and eventually a doctorate...i doubt there are any engineers on this site but if there are could u tell me about it. thx.

I am getting My ME undergrad. Itsnot easy let me tell you that.

Lots of work and proscratination. Lots of Math. You will take Cal 1, II, III, differential, linear equation, Physics, chemistry , and major specific courses.

Expect no life during the week days. during weekends sleep, more free time and less pressure cause you have a feew more hours to do work.

naw but its not that bad,

 

[954runner 10+ year member]

im going to school next year and planning to major in engineering. im thinking civil engineering... was thinking electrical for a while but figured it might not be as much fun... possibly be an acoustical engineer (if thats at all legitimate???) and perhaps design acoustics to music halls and sports stadiums. i know the AAC (dallas mavs/stars) had a ton of acoustic stuff on it, maybe do stuff like that??? anyone know which major i should pursue for this kind of thing? (EE, ME, CE, etc?)

 

[Bigrick31 10+ year member]

I was going to go to school for EE but instead decided that i would become an electrician. ANd just the math for that is tough. all the ohms law and everything. figuring out your inductance and capacitance of a circuit. and adding in your resistance and voltage drop. there are so many formulas to remember. i can just imagine how much harder EE would be. Although i work with Engineers all the time and they acatually dotn use half of what they learned in school. however one thing that will make you a better Engineer is more time acatually out in the field seeing how things are built and the process that things go through. One thing that gets me the most are engineers coming in and trying to tell us what to do, just because it works out on paper dosnt mean it works in real life! But if you do go through with it Good Luck.

 

[takeabao 10+ year member]

Not for the faint of heart. Good springboard into the car audio business, if that's really what you want to do.

As for myself, I'll hopefully end up with a degree in some sort of Engineering here at Cal (most likely IEOR -- industrial engineering and operations research), take the LSAT, and hopefully go to law school all the while starting a family.

Who knows? Go to school, follow your heart, study your hardest not because you have to, but because you love the subject and you'll end up a successful person.