How many of you doing Electrical Engineering and how many like it??

[Panakk]

I am at that point i hate it and i only have 4 more classes to go before i am done.. can't wait to graduate.

 

[GoldenBear]

You should defintely hang in there since you've made it all that far.

Rewards, especially ones that great, never come without sacrifice. And the bigger the reward, the more sacrifice it'll take.

 

[Panakk]

i definitely hope so.. the problem with this is, it's so hard to get a job you actually like.. i find it difficult to get a job in the basic design of analog chips..

 

[poop]

I am getting my BS in Comp E, and I decided to go for my masters in EE.

EE is where it is at. The high level classes look ultra cool. How can you not like VLSI design, Artificial Neural Networks, and fuzzy logic?

I am in a microcomputer design course now that is really sweet. They gave us some decoders, TTL logic, a 68k, some RAM, and som EEPROM. We had to make a computer that plays a game. Communication is done via RS232. I just think that sort of stuff is fun.

 

[Panakk]

i know it is fun.. but wait till you have 5 EE courses and everything has a project due on the same day.. i'll kill the person who tells me to manage my time properly.. it does not work that way.. professors are from hell. they plot to take over the universe. they want to torture every single one of us out there.. you'll see. the truth is out there

 

[poop]

Oh, I feel you. I am taking 19 hours right now. 13 are 500-level engineering. I get a lull for a week, then hell for a week, repeat.

I think my profs all meet to decide that everything should be due on the same day. Tests work that way to. It is a conspiracy, dammit.

 

[Panakk]

see someone that agrees with me.. there's probably some forum just like this where all the professors meet and then decide what to give and when.. we need to find out about it.

 

[poop]

forums.proftech.com, perhaps?

 

[Mday]

*sigh*

i'm only a paper electrical engineer so far... =(

haven't taken any EE courses yet =(

 

[poop]

Hang in there, Mday. The later courses are cool, even if they are a lot of work.

That is the cool part about what I am doing. The high level courses are a LOT more hands on. The low level CE courses get you a lot of programming. So I am trying to get the best of both. That, and make myself very employable. Imagine, an electrical engineer who is a decent programmer. Those are hard to come by.

Most hardware guys I have met hate writing code. Most code guys hate hardware. I like to design the hardware, then code on it (low-level C, of course)

 

[Bluga]

well i'm in first year EE/CE and so far i don't really like it. But upper year courses look fun

 

[OS]

<< How many of you doing Electrical Engineering and how many like it?? >>



It sucks. Incredibly boring, too much math, no chicks, and lots of hw problems.

 

[Bluga]

<< no chicks >>



exactly, i only saw one real chick the entire year, oh well

btw this chick is cold as ice, she ignored me when i ask her out, sigh still bitter about this, i am NOT a geek, i've never been rejected........

 

[perry]

I got 95 hours of my 140 needed to graduate. Every single hour left is an EE class, EVERYTHING else is done with. I'm not sure I wanna do EE, in fact, I'm pretty damn sure I don't. I took the rest of this school year off to figure out what I wanna do instead. I really hate it, and when I look for a career it will have nothing to do with EE. I've talked to friends that are in some of the upper classes about what they are doing and it bored me to tears. I just don't wanna do that kind of work for the rest of my life. Working with computers after they're built is what I wanna do, specifically networking (ala CCIE) stuff.

Basically, I can switch to any technical degree I want to and have about the same amount of hours left. Maybe I'll end up finishing up this degree and just using it as a resume padder. BEE from Georgia Tech won't look that bad.

 

[weezergirl]

hey i'm an electrical/computer engineer AND a chick...! anyways my opinion on this major is that the theory part SUCKS and is incredibly boring...but the upper divs do get better. i esp. liked digital design but of course that's prolly the easiest part of ee.