2007-06-26 20:06:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
As an electrical engineering major, you’ll study electricity: how it works, how it’s generated, and how it’s used to power everything from lightbulbs and radios to cell phones and robots. You’ll also learn how to design your own electric-powered projects. You will have to juggle projects, lab exercises, and reading assignments, spend hours building detailed, complicated systems, design your own gadgets or software, try, try, and try again when at first a project doesn’t succeed, work as part of a team, write reports and give oral presentations. Although you’ll take a lot of lecture courses as an electrical engineering major, you’ll also have labs where you can put the theories you learn to use. You’ll get to build things like logic circuits, processors, amplifiers, and even small vehicles and security systems. You will have to take tons of math and physics courses, which include a lot of calculus, diff. equations, linear algebra, set theory, comp. sci, etc.
2007-06-26 20:13:09 · answer #1 · answered by DBSII 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the math or any of the concepts are any more difficult than any other branch of engineering. What I see as the major reasons that people do not earn a degree after starting out in EE are that they are not adequately prepared academically (not enough overall background in pre-college math and science) and that they lack the discipline to do the studying and work required. At my school we had a 70% attrition rate; only 30% that started out in EE actually graduated with an EE degree.
2007-06-27 02:04:54 · answer #2 · answered by John F 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its the dedication itself on studying and mastering the core essence of electrical engineering that makes it a tedious degree,plus the math involved makes it difficult even more.
2007-06-26 20:25:16 · answer #3 · answered by cocopilot 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most will tell you it's the math involved. Network analysis using Laplace Transforms can be very tedious and errors can creep in easily. Rotating vectors and complex quantities can get quite confusing as well. Introductory quantum physics is required to understand semiconductors.
2007-06-26 20:21:06 · answer #4 · answered by Helmut 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋