this is horrible advice and horrible preparation for engineering. i did maybe two weeks of graphics in my engineering degree. mechanical would do maybe two dedicated courses, if that, and electrical significantly less. engineering design is not graphics and modelling, unless you also did fluid mechanics, fracture mechanics, heat transfer, and control systems, which I doubt, then you're not really well equipped for engineering.



mostly the difference in coding and programming.



most people go into engineering for the money and don't understand what it's about.

This post was edited by dGNipples on Apr 5 2010 11:08pm

Electrical engineering is an extremely broad field. I might even put computer engineering as a subset of electrical engineering. I would go electrical simply because you would cover more bases (though it won't be particularly deep). EE covers computer science and engineering(digital), analog design, communications, and signal processing.

i dont see how i provided "horrible advice" whatsoever. i simply stated my opinion, and advised looking into mechanical engineering. it is quite obvious you know more about engineering than i do, and i respect that, but i disagree that my advice was horrible.

any input helps, its all good

electrical has quite a bit about CE in it. For example Digital Logic Design kinda shows you the foundation of this stuff how 1's and 0's can add big number etc etc. Do some programming here and there so far as well as VLSI design and what not.

I've sent my admission into the faculty of engineering and science today. Even though it's past the deadline to switch
field of study's for the 2010/2011 semesters, theres a chance there still maybe room for me, otherwise i'd just to general studies
along the lines of engineering and take an extra year in school or do the spring semester.

good luck, which one did you choose?

i'm in comp eng. it is basically a joint program with electrical for the first 3 years. then splits for the last 2. u'll basically learn the same stuff. math, general physics, general chem, programming, circuits, embedded systems, digital signals etc...

you don't really choose until 2nd or 3rd year engineering I believe.
first year engineering is the same for everyone.

not at my college, at least with the case of electrical engineering. For EE there is a line of Pre-Requisites that basically says that you're going to be in college for a good 4 years from the first time you take your intro to EE class and climb the classes. 3 years if you take MayMester and WinterMester stuff if the classes are offered.