Auburn University First To Offer Wireless Degree

EyesWideOpen writes "Auburn University in Alabama will become the first school in the country to offer a four-year bachelor's degree in the study of wireless technology this fall. Since its inception three months ago an estimated 30 to 50 students have signed up for Auburn's wireless engineering program. 'All engineering students are expected to complete liberal arts and general engineering classes the first two years of school. They then can focus on wireless during their last two years of study by taking courses such as Wireless Design Lab, RF Devices and Circuits, and 3G and 4G Wireless.'"

Comments

Electrical Engineering

[miratim]

Wouldn't this kids be better off with a degree in EE, concentrating in wireless? That's like getting a degree in web services instead of Computer Science.

Egad

[Reality Master 101]

3G and 4G Wireless

Oh, well, that's good. We all know that "3G" and "4G" are such important, well defined engineering terms.

Coming soon to the CS department "Software engineering principles of version 2 and version 3 software.

Pontless...

[N3WBI3]

I hate 'special degrees' Wireless shoudl be a specialization in either Computers or Electrical or both. Im sorry wireless fall totally under EM theory, Computer Algorithms, and Electronics. There is nothing in it that an EE major (or Computer Engineering) would not/could not be exposed to in the course of their required courses + their elevtives. Its a gimik to increase admissions, no more no less.

just like the $EthnicGroup Studies majors. They should be specializations in either history or political science. What were beginning to do is produce college graduated who are way too over specialized. I know of EE's who think they dont need E-Mag because they are going to do VLSI.

Sorry for the rant its just my 2 cents.

Re:Why is this a separate degree?

[kemster]

First of all, it shouldn't take four years to learn most of how any kind of networking works.

Maybe you missed the fact that the students are at Auburn University...

gimic degrees dont impress employers

[peter303]

I'd hire a plain vanilla degree with good grades and from a competative university any day. In three years the current fads will have changed and only the basics will matter.

Alabamer

[LordNimon]

"It's really neat that you can communicate just through the air," Trueblood said in an interview over his cell phone. "Without wires you aren't limited to one specific area. Wherever I go, people can call me. There are a lot of advantages to that."

With such insightful commentary from Auburn's engineering students, it's no wonder that Alabama is such a hotbed of intellectualism.