Most Math-Heavy Fields of Engineering

TaciturnType
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:37:25 +0000

I’ve heard that EE is really math heavy at the graduate level. From reddit:



PhD student in EE with masters in both EE and Math here, with undergrad in EE. I don’t agree with the fact that EE material is easy (other than the undergrad level stuff, of course). As the complexity of engineering systems increase- the mathematical sophistication does too. I am slogging through my 5th year in grad school because of the mathematical intractability of some of the problems I’m trying to solve, which will only be publishable in EE journals and strictly qualify only as ‘EE’. In some fields (control systems theory, information theory, signal processing, various applications of optimization) EE problems are nothing but mathematical problems. You may take some time to get used to the terminology, but a useful tip is to never forget that the EE language is there to only put abstract mathematical ideas in the EE-context. What you’ll really be manipulating is the mathematical ideas, and then applying the EE facade to your edifice to give it a semblance of applicability.