Comment Re:Engineering in Canada (Score 1) 519
I think you're not giving enough credit to the materials science aspect of electrical engineering. Control engineering, which is probably the most important coding-based application of EE industrially, requires a fairly thorough knowledge of not only the processes you're trying to automate, but the behavior of the control hardware itself. Plus if you can turn it into a hardware control cheaply, you save your company a lot of money and boost the reliability considerably. And, academically, you really need to be familiar with the hardware to properly optimize your simulation code.
Just saying that those courses are in there because they're an important part of electrical engineering, not because they felt like tossing some extra crap in for accreditation. Sure, you can do nothing but be a non-calculation-intensive code-monkey with an EE degree, but only in the same sense that I have the option to make really good pizzas for a living with my ChE degree.
Just saying that those courses are in there because they're an important part of electrical engineering, not because they felt like tossing some extra crap in for accreditation. Sure, you can do nothing but be a non-calculation-intensive code-monkey with an EE degree, but only in the same sense that I have the option to make really good pizzas for a living with my ChE degree.
