Today, I met an anthropologist turned biophysics graduate student. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to ask him why he made the switch between two drastically different fields, but learning this made me reflect on my own academic and career journey. From wanting to be a chemical engineer to majoring in physics as an undergraduate, I now find myself in a Ph.D. program for electrical engineering (EE). Coming into graduate school, I did not realize just how extensive the field of EE is. As a graduate student in EE researching artificial intelligence methods for image processing, I have not looked at or worked with a “traditional” electric system in years. Sometimes, I feel like a fraud calling myself an electrical engineer, but it just takes one look around to see that today’s electrical engineers are at the forefront of many fields that are not traditionally EE. Many electrical engineers have found homes in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and quantum computing.
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