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Gaco
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Hi everyone. I need to decide which way to go with my education soon. My interest are mainly maths, physics and computers.
The thing I could currently see myself work with would be to help create educational software for maths and physics at the level for high school, collage and university introduction. Something that would offer a whole new teaching medium in addition to the two classics: the books and the teacher with his blackboard. As for my bachelor I'm deciding to go for physics because I must think in terms of Plan B's as well; if I end up having to do only one of the professions for a while, I'd rather work with pure physics than pure computer science/engineering I think.
I find the art of teaching is interesting in the sense that you need to motivate other people and help them see that math is beautiful and elegant, and that physics is truly interesting and amazing and the challange of making the complicated things as easy to understand as possible. I'd like to teach myself sometime, but I don't see myself as a high school/collage teacher for the rest of my life either.
I currently prefer theoretical physics to experimental physics, but it's one of those things that could change in the future if I had the chance to work a little with both.
When I was little I always wanted to be "an inventor", an idea which was inspired by George Gearloose actually, hehe. But time went by I don't really seen myself as being very practical actually. For example in school physics I always excelled in theoritical calculations but was often much more clueless when it came to the practical experiments (especially with electricity!), though I am improving on this point. And on the other hand I'm rarely satisfied with just knowing how something works, I always want to know why it works as well. So from my viewpoint I could just as well be a scientist or an engineer. But is there more room for an engineer to be creative, generally speaking? Is an engineer's/experimentalist's practical work a good way of keeping sane and not growing weird always thinking purely in terms of math and theoretical concepts?So where I stand now I have to decide between physics at a normal university (University of Copenhagen) that educates scientists OR physics at a technical university (Technical University of Denmark) that trains engineers. But is there really a difference in the field of physics whether you go BSc or BEng? And which one will give the broadest spectrum of job types and opportunities? Which one would be most compatible to my wish of combining physics and computer science/engineering (I don't really know the difference between the two) in the way I want to?
When I look at the content of the two physics bachelors they have a lot in common, but there seem to be more projects and technology subjects at the engineering university and just even more basic science subjects and elective course at the normal university. In addition more focus on report writing at the technical university, more focus on textbook problems/excercises at the normal university.
A lot of questions, I know, I just need some opinions on some or all of these things and seeing that there are many scientists and engineers on this forum I hope to get some perspectives on each and learn from the experience of others. Any answers is much appreciated! :)
The thing I could currently see myself work with would be to help create educational software for maths and physics at the level for high school, collage and university introduction. Something that would offer a whole new teaching medium in addition to the two classics: the books and the teacher with his blackboard. As for my bachelor I'm deciding to go for physics because I must think in terms of Plan B's as well; if I end up having to do only one of the professions for a while, I'd rather work with pure physics than pure computer science/engineering I think.
I find the art of teaching is interesting in the sense that you need to motivate other people and help them see that math is beautiful and elegant, and that physics is truly interesting and amazing and the challange of making the complicated things as easy to understand as possible. I'd like to teach myself sometime, but I don't see myself as a high school/collage teacher for the rest of my life either.
I currently prefer theoretical physics to experimental physics, but it's one of those things that could change in the future if I had the chance to work a little with both.
When I was little I always wanted to be "an inventor", an idea which was inspired by George Gearloose actually, hehe. But time went by I don't really seen myself as being very practical actually. For example in school physics I always excelled in theoritical calculations but was often much more clueless when it came to the practical experiments (especially with electricity!), though I am improving on this point. And on the other hand I'm rarely satisfied with just knowing how something works, I always want to know why it works as well. So from my viewpoint I could just as well be a scientist or an engineer. But is there more room for an engineer to be creative, generally speaking? Is an engineer's/experimentalist's practical work a good way of keeping sane and not growing weird always thinking purely in terms of math and theoretical concepts?So where I stand now I have to decide between physics at a normal university (University of Copenhagen) that educates scientists OR physics at a technical university (Technical University of Denmark) that trains engineers. But is there really a difference in the field of physics whether you go BSc or BEng? And which one will give the broadest spectrum of job types and opportunities? Which one would be most compatible to my wish of combining physics and computer science/engineering (I don't really know the difference between the two) in the way I want to?
When I look at the content of the two physics bachelors they have a lot in common, but there seem to be more projects and technology subjects at the engineering university and just even more basic science subjects and elective course at the normal university. In addition more focus on report writing at the technical university, more focus on textbook problems/excercises at the normal university.
A lot of questions, I know, I just need some opinions on some or all of these things and seeing that there are many scientists and engineers on this forum I hope to get some perspectives on each and learn from the experience of others. Any answers is much appreciated! :)
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