I'm willing to bet that you'll drop you're dual degree and choose one or the other. Because holy shit it's tough. I know a couple of guys that are taking applied mathematics with a concentration in control and robotics. Basically, I never see them around and one of them is one of my housemates.

Electrical engineering on its own is a ton of math. The big thing is, every course feeds into another. So you'll be learning a method in differential equations and then the next week you'll have to apply it in the circuit theory that you're learning, which you'll then apply in the lab.
 
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Pyro what's your background? What makes you say something like that?

If you're in pure math, you learn pure math.

What you take is a whole bunch of theoretical courses, courses devoted entirely to proofs, and numerical techniques.

I'm not saying that none of that stuff is unimportant because it's all fine and dandy if you like that stuff. Personally, theoretical math scares the shit out of me.

Now, engineering is called normally in universities as an applied science. That's not saying it's a watered down version of science, but that you learn all these mathematical techniques, most of which are beyond the pure math students because they spend so much time messing around with redundant things like proving a proof. Why prove something that's already proven? Anyways, so in engineering you learn all these techniques and whatnot but then here's the important part.

YOU LEARN HOW TO APPLY THEM TO REAL LIFE SITUATIONS.

They don't teach you that in pure math. Sure, they might teach you to write a fancy one way encryption algorithm. BUT, how will you implement in today's technological market? You still depend on the engineer to implement your sequence, be it a software or hardware type encryption. And who knows? You're algorithm may not even be practical or feasible in the current tech market.

So don't tell me that a mathematician can do an engineer's job any day.

As for an engineer not being able to do a mathematician's job. There have been and still are MANY engineers who go on to do the job of a mathematician. If you have any clue as to how strong of a mathematical background an engineer (except for mining and geological engineers, even then...) has, you would retract that statement. For instance, my differentials professor is a mechanical engineering graduate. He is now a Ph. D. candidate for mathematics involving his research in control systems. So basically, he is doing crazy theoretical research as well as teaching my class at the moment.

A engineering graduate can do anything they want to do. How's that for flexibility.

- Matt
Electrical Engineering, Queen's University, Sci '11.
 
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Pyro what's your background? What makes you say something like that?

If you're in pure math, you learn pure math.

What you take is a whole bunch of theoretical courses, courses devoted entirely to proofs, and numerical techniques.

I'm not saying that none of that stuff is unimportant because it's all fine and dandy if you like that stuff. Personally, theoretical math scares the shit out of me.

Now, engineering is called normally in universities as an applied science. That's not saying it's a watered down version of science, but that you learn all these mathematical techniques, most of which are beyond the pure math students because they spend so much time messing around with redundant things like proving a proof. Why prove something that's already proven? Anyways, so in engineering you learn all these techniques and whatnot but then here's the important part.

YOU LEARN HOW TO APPLY THEM TO REAL LIFE SITUATIONS.

They don't teach you that in pure math. Sure, they might teach you to write a fancy one way encryption algorithm. BUT, how will you implement in today's technological market? You still depend on the engineer to implement your sequence, be it a software or hardware type encryption. And who knows? You're algorithm may not even be practical or feasible in the current tech market.

So don't tell me that a mathematician can do an engineer's job any day.

As for an engineer not being able to do a mathematician's job. There have been and still are MANY engineers who go on to do the job of a mathematician. If you have any clue as to how strong of a mathematical background an engineer (except for mining and geological engineers, even then...) has, you would retract that statement. For instance, my differentials professor is a mechanical engineering graduate. He is now a Ph. D. candidate for mathematics involving his research in control systems. So basically, he is doing crazy theoretical research as well as teaching my class at the moment.

A engineering graduate can do anything they want to do. How's that for flexibility.

- Matt
Electrical Engineering, Queen's University, Sci '11.

Same holds true for me Matt, i'm a Meteorology major.

We learn a bit of theoretical math, but then spend the rest of our time applying it to various models and sets of data to determine what the hell the weather is going to do today.

We let the math kiddies figure out the theories, we just impliment them.

As an interesting side note, my coursework requires so much math, that Meteorology students who take one extra math course outside the curriculum get a minor in Mathematics.

To further back up Matt's statement, i'm going to quote the course descriptions from 2 graduate level classes, one engineering and one mathematics.

Mathematics:

Engineering:

~ Matt
Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Oklahoma, '12
 
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