This blog post concerns major-specific questions pertaining to engineering.
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In the post, provide concise but detailed answers to the following questions about your discipline [Note: If you have more than one major or minor, choose one of them to focus on for this project. If you're undecided on your program of study, then select a program you're seriously considering or interested in/curious about for this project.]
- What do students in your program or department learn how to do?
Students in Electrical and Computer Engineering become equipped with programming knowledge and logic to tackle real-world problems, such as poverty, sickness, and famine. People think that it's just a bunch of math, which is only PARTIALLY true. To be good at math is important because it shows that you have a)work ethic to tackle hard problems and b)a firm understanding on logic and procedural analysis.
- What do people who get degrees in this field usually go on to do for work?
There are two major routes that people who get degrees pursue. Either they go to work at a major engineering firm, like Boeing or Raytheon, or even a smaller firm. The second general choice is to go to work.
- What drew you to this field?
, I want to practice Intellectual Property Law, which Electrical Engineering looks great while applying to grad school. It also has rigorous yet fitting classes to ensure that I am knowledgeable about the subjects potential patent applicants discuss.
- Name three of the leaders/most exciting people involved in this field right now in 2016. Why are they interesting or exciting to you? These could be individual people or specific companies, organizations, businesses or non-profits. Hyperlink us to a homepage professional website for each person, if possible.
Steve Wozniak
If Steve Jobs was the visionary of Apple, then Steve Wozniak was the brains. This man is a computer-programming prodigy, and was responsible for the primary design of the Apple 2 computer. He is wildly fascinated with not only computers, but is deeply involved with Silicon Valley's Comic Con!
Rowan Atkinson
Best known as the guy who played Mr. Bean, Rowin Atkinson is unknown by many as an electrical engineer. He attended Newcastle University, and to make money on the side during his early acting profession, drove trucks! There is not much in regards to his actual publications, but it just goes to show that many people pursue engineering who don't wear thick round glasses and polos everywhere.
Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim, whose full name is actually Mohammed Ibrahim, is a business-mind electrical engineer who is responsible for Celtel, which was a cell-phone company that accumulated over 24,000,000 mobile subscribers in the African countries (wiki). He is one of a very few number of engineering majors to be over $1,000,000,000 net worth. He is an African man who lives in Britain, called "the most powerful Black man in Britain."
If Steve Jobs was the visionary of Apple, then Steve Wozniak was the brains. This man is a computer-programming prodigy, and was responsible for the primary design of the Apple 2 computer. He is wildly fascinated with not only computers, but is deeply involved with Silicon Valley's Comic Con!
Rowan Atkinson
Best known as the guy who played Mr. Bean, Rowin Atkinson is unknown by many as an electrical engineer. He attended Newcastle University, and to make money on the side during his early acting profession, drove trucks! There is not much in regards to his actual publications, but it just goes to show that many people pursue engineering who don't wear thick round glasses and polos everywhere.
Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim, whose full name is actually Mohammed Ibrahim, is a business-mind electrical engineer who is responsible for Celtel, which was a cell-phone company that accumulated over 24,000,000 mobile subscribers in the African countries (wiki). He is one of a very few number of engineering majors to be over $1,000,000,000 net worth. He is an African man who lives in Britain, called "the most powerful Black man in Britain."
- What are the names of three leading academic/scholarly journals in your field? Where are they published? Give us the names and locations of at least 3. (HINT: If you have no idea what the answer to this question is, try Googling “What are the top academic journals in [insert field of study]?” and peruse the results). Make the titles of each journal into a working hyperlink to the website for that publication. (NOTE: if your links aren’t included or don’t work or if the page it directs us to is blocked from public view, I will not be able to assign you full credit for this exercise).
This journal is the first hit on google when you search "academic journal electrical engineering", perhaps because it is the easiest to use, plus it has the largest sheer amount of content. It is published by "Politechnica". The audience is all electrical engineers who use their degree in order to apply towards home electricity and industrial uses as well.
Springer EE journal is a lot less professional than the article posted above. It's quite apparent that all the leading Electrical Engineers gravitate towards the above website based on the fanbase that it has already accumulated. Springer is a global publishing company that relies heavily on e-books, preferably peer-reviewed journals as well.
This journal pertains more so to multimedia publications. The German-based company has hardly any publications compared to the first two, which have over 5,000,000 publications each. However the individual journals appeal to a more casual reading audience, as the technical language is held back. This is both good and bad, bad especially for those extremely knowledgeable about EE.
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