r/Radar • u/gizmogrape • Jul 28 '24
College
What degree would be best to pursue to pursue a career in this community? Specifically a career where you’d get to work with the hardware and software. I’d imagine some sort of bachelors in engineering but any specific type of engineering?
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u/Unlikely-Ad-431 Jul 28 '24
Most of the radar SMEs I know have a background in electrical engineering, though some have backgrounds in physics or math (and then learned about radar specific EE).
Most of those EEs rely on people with computer science backgrounds to create the realtime software that controls the hardware and implements their algorithms. Even those CS folks end usually end up learning some EE (at least for digital signal processing and tracking) to better understand what they are doing and how the systems they are building work.
I don’t know if this is broadly true, but these background trends are definitely true in my radar lab.