Question about electrical engineers.

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In summary, a PhD in electrical engineering would have a significant amount of knowledge in math, but likely less than a person who specialized in math as their degree. If someone wanted to be an electrical engineer with a specialization in math and a minor in physics, their chances of getting into a masters program for electrical engineering are still good. Both pure and applied math are applicable to EE programs, and signal and image processing can be studied in both EE and applied math programs.
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How much knowledge in math would a phd in electrical engineering know? Would it be less than a person who specialized in math a degree or more? If i wanted to be an electrical engineer, but i wanted to specialize in math and minor in physics, what are my chances of getting into a masters program for electrical engineering?
 
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Pretty sure that electrical engineers need to know differential equations. Other than that I'm not sure.
 
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How much knowledge in math would a phd in electrical engineering know? Would it be less than a person who specialized in math a degree or more? If i wanted to be an electrical engineer, but i wanted to specialize in math and minor in physics, what are my chances of getting into a masters program for electrical engineering?

Pure or applied math? Either way, EE's probably need to know less math than math majors. If you majored in math and minored in physics, you should still be able to get into EE programs. Signal and image processing is done in both EE and applied math programs.
 

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