MIT EECS Only Focuses On EE. Agree or Not?

iceui2
Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:00:22 +0000

1) Disagree
2) Agree
3) Depends. There are three paths at MIT within the EECS Department you can choose from: EE only (6-1), EECS (6-2), and CS only (6-3). If you don’t care about EE then you can declare 6-3 and take only CS classes. Even if you are 6-2 you can still take a heavy load in CS and take the bare minimum in EE (which is 3 classes), or vice-versa.

Also, it sounds like you think learning EE is a bad thing. I hope you realize that the computing industry was built from a foundation in EE, not CS (since programming languages was nonexistent up to the late 1950s).

And just a FYI: Stanford and MIT have 2 of the best EE and CS programs in the world. So you can’t go wrong with either. They might teach it differently but the end result is the same: a solid foundation in the field that can be used to tackle the toughest challenges in the world today.