How to get a head start on electrical engineering?
Like Danny said, MATH! Before you even touch a circuit you are going to be required to know a certain amount of math. Most engineering students enter college with some background of Calculus. Your degree will most likely have you work up to Calculus 3 and Differential Equations. Familiarizing yourself with circuits and working hands on is good, but it will not cut it at the college level. You need to know every bit of math behind what you are doing before you go and do it. You said that the last math you took was Algebra? ... heres a youtube channel with excellent resources on learning math http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy and here is a FREE (awesome) site with full course documents on Algebra Calc 1-3 and Differential Equations http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/ Don't worry about playing with circuits and Matlab yet. If you really want a head start, here it is: MATH
Should i Major in Finance or Electrical Engineering????
go with your heart thats what i have learned .you see i too had to make a decision ,for medicine or biotech engineering! anyways ,its true that this is a commerce world ,ruling the roost for fat paychecks are business corporates and then engineers! since you are a science student,i say go for engineering major ,you can always look for an earn an MBA in finance anytime after that ,but for eng you need the right step now itself alternatively,you can go for what is called as a double degree that would suit yr interests best ,its offerd widely in UK and Australia. search for universities you acn also earn several bussiness diplomas in finance frm US UK etc that would be stellar on your CV. Remember that maintain your major as a science subject since you have no formal training in commerce dont hang up your major on this ,its risky,major in eng and then PG in MBA finance added to that a diploma will work yr way to a fat paycheck! all the best!
How can I teach myself electrical engineering?
Hello, Where would I get started? What book would you recommend to a total and complete newbie that knows absolutely nothing whatsoever about electronics or electronic components but would like to one day be able to understand integrated circuits and whatever other electrical engineering things that I currently know so little about that the term above is the only one I know...and really I dont even know what an integrated circuit is.... What is the ultimate beginners book for this field for the total ignorant. I cannot find a book titled "Electrical engineering for dummies"... Please advise, Thank you in advance for your time, Perry in FL
Can you be average in math and get an engineering degree?
In short - no, at least not a BS Engineering degree from a top university in the USA. Engineers need to be good at math and like math because much of the work is math-based.So why do you want to be an engineer? Ask yourself what is about engineering that excites you - and then see if you can build on that.So assuming that you are in high school. With average SAT / ACT scores, you are not likely to be accepted into a major university's engineering program. And if you do, the amount of math-based work could become very discouraging. You might consider a less competitive university, the less math-intense and more hands-on "Engineering Technology" degree or another engineering-like profession.As an undergraduate at Virginia Tech back in the 1980's, freshman engineering students were referred to a 'pre-business majors' and freshman calculus was a primary weed-out class. Lots of students wanted the engineering degree only because of the immediate job prospects and high starting salaries, and not because of any love of the core math and science that is engineering. But if you didn't pass calculus, you didn't get into the engineering program's sophomore classes. If you didn't do well, you didn't get your first choice of majors. It was that competitive. As schools have increase engineering faculty, things may have changed - but I'm not sure.My brother-in-law started college in engineering 2 years after I did, at a different school. He hated and failed calculus. He absolutely loved the engineering drafting class and transferred to another college and majored in graphic arts, specializing in computer graphic arts. That was in the late 1980's. Now he's got over 25 movies and several video games that he's work on - in short he's having a wonderful and challenging career. (That said - I would shy away from any degree in 'video game design' or 'sports management' - both are fields that many people see as fun but with few real job opportunities.)Some colleges have degrees classified as "engineering technology" as opposed to "bachelor of science in engineering." The BS engineering technology degrees tend to be more hands-on and less theoretical (ie. less differential-equation based math) than the BS Engineering. And some companies actually prefer the hands-on degrees.And some of the best 'engineers' that I've worked with in my career don't have engineering degrees - they started as machinists, doing tool-and-die fabrication with a 2-year associates degree and moved up.