EE, BioE, Signals, and Research Projects

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The discussion revolves around a student's transition from a Bioengineering (BioE) curriculum to Electrical Engineering (EE), driven by concerns over marketable skills and the prevalence of premed students in BioE. The student aims to focus on BioE-related research, particularly a project involving signal processing from insect heads to detect landmines, which they hope to develop into a senior design project and master's thesis. They seek recommendations for relevant courses to support this goal, already having a foundation in probability, statistics, stochastic processes, signals, digital signal processing (DSP), and circuit analysis. The student is considering additional courses in partial differential equations (PDEs) and neuroscience. Additionally, they express dissatisfaction with their current university, citing personal and medical challenges, and are contemplating transferring but face timing issues with course acceptance at potential new institutions. The discussion touches on the overlap between academic and career guidance, highlighting the complexities of navigating educational paths and institutional limitations.
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Hi, I have a lot of considerations here, but I'm not entirely sure where to start.

I switched from a BioE curriculum to an EE curriculum, recently, because most BioEs I knew were premed and I'd been worried about the curriculum not actually giving me any marketable skills, rather tons of sub-marketable skills. I still have a minor, because I fulfilled the course requirements for it in a semester. Nonetheless, I ultimately want to do BioE related research, but have made my concentration in EE signal processing (and imaging).

A professor I had in BioE not too long ago did a project for DARPA involving using signals generated in insect heads to smell landmines. I'd like to pursue this further and make it my senior design project and hopefully a master's thesis in a BA-MA track (a thing my school offers). Which courses are recommended to do this most efficiently? I already know probability, statistics, and stochastic processes; signals; DSP; circuit analysis (op-amps); are all courses I'll have by the time I start and are likely to be utilized, but I'm wondering if it's worth taking PDEs and maybe neuroscience courses, or anything else you could recommend.

But on another note, I'm not really satisfied with the University I'm in. I was not on a good time-table for transferring and have had personal and medical issues that got in the way (and enduring lawsuits, as well), and the University I'm at is...a bit mediocre. I only really entered here because the community college ran out of courses for me to take and I didn't have much time, but, if I do transfer, it will have to be after the fall, and most universities won't take the courses that I'd be taking in the fall, because they're too high up.
 
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