How to 'convert' from physicist to electrical engineer

[yllihp]

Here's the situation. I finished my bachelors in physics last year, and I want to ‘convert’ from a physicist to an electrical engineer. Now that I’ve got grad school offers (MS) in electrical engineering, how do I actually go about converting myself to an electrical engineer?

I’m planning to concentrate on the more ‘physics-oriented’ areas (e.g. solid state, quantum, nanotechnology, etc.), which I pretty much have the prerequisites for, so I actually don’t have to take any undergrad remedial courses...But I would still like to take remedial undergrad classes in the more 'traditional' electrical engineering areas, so that I can actually call myself an electrical engineer…

The question is, which undergrad classes should I take? What kinds of topics are ‘compulsory’ for an electrical engineer?

 

[physiker_192]

The key here is that you want to focus on certain fields pertaining actually to physics rather than ee which make the experience relaxed and prerequisites met.
I am going through doing the inverse of what you're doing (ee bachelor >> phys. msc).

Compulsory courses in my opinion should be analog & digital communication, computer networks, control systems/theory, semiconductor devices (if you didn't do it during your physics undergrad), microelectronic circuits analysis & design + VLSI (typically VLSI is introduced in the third or fourth year of ee).


I am not sure whether you know about www.nanohub.org , but its where physics & ee meet.