Back to College i go....

HardD99

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ok im in a very good position to go back to school, im now able to work 2 days a week and pay all my bills, and my full education is paid for. so i plan on enrolling for school in the next week. i am having a couple problems tho, i have a few ideas of what i want to do for a living but cant really find any info on them.

one thing is to be able to work for a big company like sony etc., companies that make a large assortment of products, what i want to do is help design new products, i dont know what kind of degree i would need for this or even how it works at these companies. i mean, say i want to design a telephone that works with your land-line phone when your in your home, and when u leave it switches to your cell phone, something along those lines. do the people that design these products just say ok here is what i though of, then it moves on to another person that designs the inner-workings, then the next person to design the casing? or is it like a team, like 10 people working together all able to do the same things, brainstorming with eachother and comming out with a final product?

another thing i am thinking about is getting into database design etc, designing and setting up databases for companies, particularly the company i am working for atm. but not sure how this is done either, not even sure how much money is in something like this and if its even worth it, im not sure how much money is in the last idea either so if anyone knows?

well i guess thats it for now, thx for any helpful comments guyz....
 
well atleast i know im not the only one that doesnt know the answer to these questions....
 
Computer Science, Computer/Electrical Engineering, Industrial Design, Information Technology....there are many different streams that would get you to where you mention.

Go to the college and speak with the admissions people.
 
If you're looking to design and create new products, you'll most likely want an engineering degree. Sony would most likely be looking for people with an Electrical Engineering degree or such to design and create electronics.
 
If you want to design the electrical components for a product, Electrical Engineering is the way to go.

For databases that would Computer Science.

For firmware, chip design or embedded systems I would suggest Computer Engineering. The problem is CompE is very vague and can vary depending on the school. For me my CMPE degree is almost the same as an EE, except I didn't take a couple of the hardcore analog design courses and instead took a couple upper level CS courses.

Talk with an advisor and try to pick out a few basic courses. A lot of the intro courses are probably prereqs for all three of those degrees. Your first semester even if you change your mind you probably won't have wasted any classes.
 
thank you VERY much guys, thats very helpful, now i gotta see if the skool im going to even offers anything like that...
 
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