Electrical and Computer Engineering is always changing. It's really a growing field. Everything can be made smaller and faster
It's on the forefront of technology with advances in automated vehicles and robotics
I realized how many different things you can do within the major from RF to computer architecture
You can basically cover anything that relates to modern technology and electronics
Anything that includes both information and physical reality, probably falls under the ECE umbrella
You can specialize more on the architecture of computers or on the physics side of things trying to figure out how to make small devices
like transistors, you can focus more on the signal processing information side, or you can mix and match those things in lots of ways.
All the professor's here are masters in their field
so it's really exciting to see where they're going with their research
We encourage students to you know, approach us if they are interested in the research areas
we are engaged in and then we design a project to help them dive in and understand that subject better.
If you're considering a major in ECE
I would recommend taking all of the foundation classes circuits signals and digital logic
none of them give you the same experience as the other and you'll be able to build your whole Cornell career off of one of those foundations.
There's a moment that most students go through
somewhere in the first two months where this previously completely abstract subject something clicks
They go off like lightbulbs over the semester as it kicks in.
At the upper level, it's fun to watch
Students mature into professional engineers to be able to develop a product from concept all the way through a reasonable design
I'm on the Cornell Baja Racing Team and I am a member of the Electronics Sub Team
I definitely worked with a lot of people from other majors coming from an ECE background, I definitely bring a different perspective
I know more about how the sensors are actually gonna interact with the mechanical components
I understand how to take the data parse it, so that it's usable for the mechanical engineers to validate what they're doing
It's really important to work
Well in groups
that's something that we do a lot of the time in our classes and it's important to be able to work with your team to
debug your circuit and get to the bottom of what's happening.
Life today has been greatly enhanced by digital Technologies and ECE was definitely the pioneer in that area.
