There is some (more or less) overlap with semiconductor processing side of electrical engineering engineering, manufacturing engineering, materials/devices side of electrical engineering, chemical engineering, and engineering management.
It does have some distance from design since most of...
You need to figure out what you are the most passionate about before making that choice, and this is often something you learn while getting a bachelors in engineering. Since you already have a B.S. in physics that may be hard.
A B.S. in physics CAN get you an engineering job as a EE or ME...
Sounds like that job might actually be "validation" and not "test".
Validation happens in parallel with design and is the process by which designers are checked that they are designing the correct thing, the design bounces back and forth between the two groups (DE and PE)
Test happens when...
I may be wrong, but when you think "RF" are you talking the design of circuits like transceivers mixers, etc (which I typically hear termed as RF) or are you talking about signal processing and digital filtering? There is a difference between these fields.
I don't know if you really need to worry about the PE certification, it depends on what you want to do. In some fields it isn't seen as important at all like IC design or PCB design, no point in having it since it won't benefit your employer. However, if you want to build roads, buildings...
R.F. requires a M.S and PH.D preferred
Automation can be done with just a B.S. (or two to get the breadth needed)
R.F. is NOT going away however, it will be here as long as there are speeds of over a few MHz in any IC. Think about PCI express, the SERDES is an RF part, not a digital part...
In general the first year of an engineering B.S. is the same across most degrees, lots of math and science and the bac core classes. sophomore year things start to change, the chemical/biological engineers take more chem classes, the civil/mechanical/manufacturing engineers take more hard...
I would say go with design, if not design validation (product engineering), if not that test. I pick that order because design gives you the most creative freedom which is very important in a job long term, the more monotonous the job the more you will learn to loathe it (the time it take for...
I'm starting my masters in analog IC design and am trying to get a feel for what is big in the industry for analog IC design. I have been told that delta-sigma data converters are the biggest area of interest right now. I was hoping that IC power supply design would be an option for me though it...
I sometimes see them going into nano-tech, materials, and RF/wireless/electromagnetics fields. The other option is to get a more specialized graduate degree but engineering physics is a fairly specialized thing already. From what I can tell someone with a background in engineering physics does...
Has the difference between M.Eng and M.S. been that stark? How did that play out?
My plan has been to focus on both analog and digital IC design so I can work for a company like Maxim IC or National Semi who do their IC design here in the states. One option I thought of was to do my M.S. and...
I'm graduating with a B.S. in CpE, and I got my B.S. in EE last year, so I know what your talking about. All of the interviews I've had are for the CpE side of things, a lot of companies want to hire a code monkey with a hardware background, and anyone with a CpE fits the bill. As long as you...
Looking for career advice in electrical engineering
I posted this question in the electrical engineering section but I realize it should have gone here, apologies to the mods.
I am trying to find out what the options are for a BSEE+BSCpE in design engineering, and from what I can tell not...
Thank you for the information.
I have known for a while that an M.S. or M.Eng would be needed for me to get into the kind of work that I really want to get into, I am just surprised that the ONLY kind of work I can get with a B.S. is apps and test. Where I would like to be in say 5-10 years...
You might want to look into "controls" and/or "mechatronics", the subject of robotics gets talked about is lots of EE and ME courses and is a big field that is not likely go to away. If you know some PLC programming, control theory, and some other ME stuff there are TONS of companies that do...