Double ... minoring?

[Falco Girgis]

So it turns out that a certain electrical engineering class was dropped from the computer engineering curriculum. The class was EE310 "Solid State Fundamentals"--quite possibly the hardest class for EE and CPE majors alike. It's all about the physical characteristics of semi conductors at the physics level. It's barely even relevant to electrical engineers, so there was no fucking reason to make us poor computer engineers take it (thank god I hadn't already).

But anyway, I have the opportunity to take another elective. As a computer engineer, I get a lot of options. Electrical engineering, computer science, and math classes will all give credit towards my degree. I was already planning to take a few computer science classes (and stay the fuck away from more electrical engineering). I just found out that one more math credit will give me a minor in mathematics.

Computer engineers are required to take a shitload of electrical engineering classes. You graduate with a minor in electrical engineering with a major in computer engineering by default just as a computer scientist has a minor in mathematics.

It just so happens that engineers are required to take differential equations, which CS students aren't. The differential equations takes the place of the CS "Foundations of Math" and all that I need to take is probability and statistics to have a major in computer engineering and a minor in electrical engineering and mathematics. Just figured I would share.

[hurstshifter]

Nice. Surely something that will make your resume look better.

[dandymcgee]

That's pretty cool.

[K-Bal]

Could you explain to me what a minor and a major in the US is? How many semesters/classes do you have to take for that?