I received significantly better salary/bonus offers after doing my M.S.E.E. and for job descriptions that seem a lot more challenging. That's my (limited) experience so far. You should be able to manage your career so that after 5 to 10 years you will be doing rewarding work for great pay no...
B.S. Electrical Engineering, about to finish my M.S.E.E. My thesis is in High Power Microwave breakdown, which is interesting and all, but research is not my thing (neither is defense work) and as such I have a job lined up for after graduation. It will be at a large engine company doing high...
I studied extensively as well, and if you do that it is easy. It's just a feat to stay focused for that long.
I recommend the guide written by Lindeburg for the general section, he schedules a good pace and the practice questions are a little bit harder than the actual exam. I didn't use a...
At my school it is required for the M.S.E.E. degree and there are many good reasons for that as listed previously.
I also think that any engineer worth his salt should be licensed. The only reason most engineers never have to take it is because of an industrial exemption clause, if that did not...
Do NOT get the EM for Engineers by Ulaby, it is a horrendous book for anything except the very basics. Griffiths is far better in my opinion.
The microwave engineering book by Pozar is very good, recommended.
Most EE's love to ignore EM Theory (and I agree, my Engineering EM textbook is god awful), so develop a fundamental understanding of the equations behind the lumped element approximation and RF/T-Line theory and you are head and shoulders above the rest. I still use Griffiths in my graduate EE...
A minor in engineering including the core courses for ME would make it easier. We recently had a BA in Math graduate with a Ph.D in EE, so it's very possible. I don't know why you wouldn't just major in ME in the first place though.
Undergrads do have a tendency to over-complicate their college...
I'm not an expert either, but we're all here to learn.
1. Certainly there will be a loss when you insert a wave with oblique incidence into a waveguide, but if you just consider a wave already propagating inside a rectangular or circular waveguide, the wave will propagate in set modes dependent...
This may seem heartless, but I am glad you posted as it gives engineers a look into the current job market. To have done so much good work over nearly a decade only to be shunned by employers would be infuriating. This definitely solidifies my decision to finish my masters and get out.
In terms...
Nice write-up
However, I think there is ALWAYS a market for EE's, but you should be willing to relocate. There is no room to be picky about location if you want your dream job.
There were people in my graduating class that make me afraid that they are engineers, and they had no problem getting...
It's a niche field that can be both physics or engineering. Most of the literature is extremely complicated, but here's some lecture notes that are easy to understand.
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/node103.html
I graduated magna cum laude in EE and barely did work outside of class. It was work and projects outside of the curriculum and knowing the most basic fundamentals that landed me job offers.
It all depends how much theoretical information you want to know. I spent my time doing more fun things.
Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical have the most math, but the more math you know and incorporate into your job, the better you'll be at it (goes for any engineering field).
Electrical easily has the most abstract theory.
As for practical work, as much as you want!
It sounds like...