Hi there guys,
I’m Ran, 16 from Israel,
and attending a special program created by the israeli Bar-Ilan university,
wer’e finishing at a lot of our exams on the 10th grade, leaving us most of 11th and 12th grades for academic studies.
after this program, that means next year, I’ll start my academic studies,
probably at the Technion, that offers on of the world’s best electric-engineering schools.
I’m really seeking to work with micro-controllers and etc. in the future, and I don’t know what is the best way to approach it:
On the first hand, you can go and study electric engineering, getting yourself a great advantage in life and carreer, but you rarley get to work with micro-controllers.
On the other hand, you can go and study computer-science, take mostly micro-controllers - related classes, but that won’t get you the same advantage.
I’m have been thinking about it a lot, and can’t decide.
I hope to base my decision on the experience of the excellent experts among you guys.
I think electrical engineering is the best fit, because working with microcontrollers can involve working closely with hardware. Often you have to work with test equimpment such as logic analyzers and oscilloscopes. Here in the US most of the people I have seen working working on embedded programming are electrical engineers. There are so many varied fields in EE that you can choose from.
another consideration is that if I pick EE, I would probably have to take a full year of math courses before I can be transfered to EE.
If I pick computer-science, I can finish something like 2 or 3 courses and be transfered.
and: I can’t pick computer-science at the Technion, (have to take it at the high-leveled-University of Tel-Aviv, which has awful EE courses-really low-leveled)
:mad:
… BTW just got back from the regional finals, no surprises, just dissapointment
The thing with the study of any field of general engineering (electrical, civil, industrial, mechanical, etc.) is that you study the fundamentals/basics of that field at first. Towards the end of your undergraduate studies, you get to take a limited amount of courses that relate to your desired specialty of study. It’s not until graduate school that you really specialize in something.
