Question regarding Masters degree in EE

[tip29]

Hi all,

I have a BE defgree in Mechanical Engineering but I have always been fascinated with electronics and low level programming.
So I am thinking of doing Masters in Electrical Engineering. My goal is to be able to analyze, solve and maybe design analog circuits as shown in my attachment. I know basic circuits (diodes, transistor, opamps etc), but I want to learn more advance real world designs.

What is Masters EE program like?  What does one learn?

Thanks.

[T3sl4co1l]

I can tell from the thumbnail, that's just an audio power amp -- BSEE teaches all the bits you need, to understand one of those -- though perhaps leaving you to piece it together yourself, rather than, say, teaching amplifier design as its own subject.

I know several non-grads who understand amps better than a lot of "master"s, but then, I probably have two masters' worth of knowledge myself, and I'm officially only a twice bachelor's, so, take what I have to say with a grain of salt I suppose.

If you learn quickly, it won't be much trouble to understand, less than a year.  Maybe a few months of directed study.  If you're more average paced, you should definitely be able to work through its operation, after a BSEE curriculum.  (If you aren't -- as, I'd have to guess, a modest (like ~25%?) fraction of 4-year BSEE grads can't -- well, discrete analog is probably not for you, that's one thing -- but you can probably still get good pay faking it somewhere. . . .)

Tim

[rstofer]

Your undergrad will probably not have included the necessary prerequisites for a grad degree in EE.  I guess you can apply and see what the school says but don't be surprised if changing majors requires essentially doing the entire upper division classes.

When I did my MSEE, it was assumed I had all the math and all the electronics courses from my BSEE but the program was fairly flexible in what courses to take.  I took one compiler course for which I was totally unqualified and the rest were computer hardware related, mostly logic design of CPUs and arithmetic units.  There were two required courses that exercised math skills:  Signal processing (be prepared with Laplace Transforms) and one on numerical programming (I still have the most excellent textbook and use it from time to time) plus an engineering seminar which involved technical writing and speaking for 1 unit.  This was during the very early days of microprocessors so the class picked that as a topic and we reviewed a lot of the new devices of the time.  Very interesting class for little credit!

There were several MSEE tracks and when I graduated I had enough CS courses that I could graduate with MSCS or MSEE - I chose EE.

Grad school was the most fun I ever had in school.  No wasting time on nonsense courses, just the interesting stuff.

[tip29]

"Grad school was the most fun I ever had in school.  No wasting time on nonsense courses, just the interesting stuff" - Yes that is what i am looking for.
 I don't mind taking upper division classes if I have to. I am going to apply and see what happens.
 I have been out of school for almost 10 years now so I will probably have hard time getting in the rhythm of school work.
 I will probably have to review Diff Equation, Laplace transform etc like you mentioned.

Thanks.