Before I pretty much decided to follow up on electrical engineering after working through some electronics work in middle and high school as well as a few other quirks. Thanks to the nifty link I managed to get to a nice little cache of information on the GMU Department EE/CpE page that includes some course for various specialties. What caught my immediate attention was “Microelectronics, Electromagnetics, and Optoelectronics”. I’m just as likely wrong about the perks of this specialty as I am about holding my major until graduation, but it would appear that this little specialization follows groundwork electronic communications on a hardware level by focusing on applying electromagnetic theory, analog/digital circuitry, optical communications, and so on. Personally, I would like to work on the hardware and interfacing of circuitry to signals. If I have this right, and I probably don’t, that takes me a very nice step closer to making a tv remote, or at the least getting things to talk to each other without hardwiring them and being able to limit the signals used in communication.
What would really help me with this is some extra work in physics and trig, especially with emtheory, which I could use in my class, but didn’t fully understand. It’s impossible to properly use something without understanding it, so some extra work would be really nice there. While I should be concerned about my human writing and communication skills, I’m fairly certain they will be going under several revisions based off general electives, practice, and whatever foreign languages I choose to learn in the future. Right now the technical background for any related field is more important to me than the features around it and will become my focus for improvement.
