<p>Could anyone provide information about the SSE major??..If someone could elaborate on what the major is like, what type of classes are taken, what jobs come from holding a degree in this major, etc it would be great. The field seems rather undefined, at least from the information on the Penn Engineering website…</p>
<p>For jobs, see [Career</a> Services, University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/surveys.html]Career”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/seas/surveys.html)</p>
<p>You can look at the surveys and see what companies hired SSE majors.</p>
<p>SSE is ideally a graduate degree for people who already have a degree in a real engineering field since it’s complex/advanced project management.</p>
<p>SSE is often taken by dual degree students because EE is too hard to complete in 4 years.</p>
<p>An analogy I’ve heard about SSE vs EE is that EE students care about how a train works whereas SSE students are more concerned with how the entire transportation system works. Basically SSE is more “high level” whereas EE is “low level”</p>
<p>Thanks so much! I see. So basically analogous to EE but less technical and broader in scope. So would an econ minor or an econ dual degree fit well or be feasible? I’m planning to go into business for a career and hope to get an MBA but want a more technical background…</p>
<p>^I have the same intent and I’m thinking about dual majoring in econ and computer science, which is very feasible according to people on this board and based on my own analysis of the course requirements. There are 40 course units required in the comp sci major and 10 required econ-specific course units in the econ major (the math requirements for both majors overlap). So, you’re looking at fitting in the 10 courses in your elective/humanities slots that are a part of the comp sci major, which can easily be done in 4 yrs and especially if you have AP credit. If you’re asking about triple-majoring, however, that’s probably going to take at least 5 yrs and a whole lot of headaches…I’ll put in a good word for the computer science major seeing as it’s probably the most flexible degree you can get and has excellent job security (actual hardcore software engineering, not IT, which is being steadily outsourced). It’s great as a fallback in case you can’t or don’t want to end up in business in the long run.</p>
<p>I’m a systems engineer.</p>
<p>Both EE and SE has its own perks. SE is on a grander scale. Systems engineers end up creating transportation systems such as trains or flights. NASA employs a massive amount of systems engineers for the creation and launch of its spacecrafts. Boeing is a family of systems engineers. </p>
<p>In EE, you learn how to manufacture the circuits on a dish. In SE, you learn how to use a million dishes to aid the NSA in intercepting every phone call made at will. </p>
<p>And yes, you do learn how to do that. There’s a class on that. Agent-based modeling.</p>