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I'm also an electrical engineer, planning to start working this summer. I took a little detour to study for a M.Sc in mathematical ecology after finishing my B.Eng. I did some fairly heavy programming, algorithms and data visualization in MATLAB to support my thesis on scallop population dynamics. I'd love to get into doing control and/or sensing for ocean applications.

Ideally, I'd like to start a business in this field eventually. But don't feel that I have the connections or expertise yet. This type of engineering is not hacking, so the "ramen profitable, learn as you go" paradigm seems to be less applicable. My plan is to learn some more in industry over the course of however many years. As it stands I can build things, but I don't understand enough about the market to make sure I build the right things.

PS: Is anyone looking for recently graduated EEs with a little more math and programming than typical? You don't have to be in the ocean, though that could be a bonus.