is a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering a good path to work in all the things related of this forum?

[musicenthusiast]

I would like to work in an iem industry headphone industry dac amp speakers...

is a Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering a good path to work in audio science?

 

[Redacted]

Better than most degrees I'd think. It depend on exactly what you want to do. I'm happy to see you thinking about it.

Any "finger-painting degree" may get you into sales or marketing for such a company but I don't think that's where you are headed!

I'd go for a degree with 'engineering' in the name, and/or one involving serious maths, or modules for test and measurement, or physics, if you want to design stuff.

And you may have to move to China if you are from the UK, where nothing is going on, unless your parents are loaded and they have friends/connections in the City.

 

[PatentLawyer]

Go for Electrical Engineering.

I've never heard of the degree you mentioned, but I got my engineering degree a long time ago! But I think then as now, EE is the way to go. A real full fat engineering degree.

 

[wwenze]

The audio industry, and probably not a stretch when I say nearly the entire audio industry, is untouched by university degree (except in a few schools), the products at the base level does not require a specialized university degree (or sometimes a degree at all), and the science at the deep end is not taught in university courses anyway.

In other words, it's self learn.

The breadth of electronics cannot be underestimated.

Also, as much as I want to encourage someone to do what he loves, be sure it puts food on your table. Where I live, there's no audio science factory hiring audio scientists. On a planet where Samsung owns half the industry and sells $50 (parallel import market price) TWS with -40dB ANC that conforms to Harman target, there is not much practical thing left to make and sell, and it becomes less of a "push the limits of science" and more of a "can I get people to buy" business instead.

Perhaps interestingly, there is a lot to learn in telecomm engineering that is also relevant in audio electronics. Like S parameters... and Laplace transform (because why stop at 1 S). Information theory too, gotta know what DSP is doing. And of course, amplifiers.
If you survive the course, you will qualify for jobs that pay way more than doing stuff in audio. After all, telecomm hardware is a way bigger market than DACs.

 

[waynel]

I would recommend a degree in electrical engineering ( source: I have one myself). I've also never heard of the degree you mentioned. Is it from a for profit school? If so avoid for profit schools.

 

[kemmler3D]

If you want to design / build IEMs / headphones your best bet is to do an EE degree and also somehow double in acoustic engineering. then, If you are not already living in China, learn mandarin and move to Shenzhen. This probably gives the best odds of getting those specific jobs. I don't say that to be cynical, but to point out that a great deal of the actual engineering of new IEMs, headphones, and to a large extent speakers is happening there today. Western brands have not just outsourced manufacturing but a good chunk of engineering also.

 

[Redacted]

Degrees change names, especially at what used to be "Polytechnics" in the UK compared with the traditional Unis.
I did "Electrical and Electronic Engineering". But as microprocessors had just come out (it was 1921, IIRC), I focussed all my interest on those, and my first job was writing software. well before I got to design any hardware. And then software all the way, and 10 patents, until I got run engineering, which gave me s/w, h/w, mech design, and product validation to play with. Mech design was probably the most fun (or the least tedious).

People today ask me I can change a mains plug safely, and I say yes, but I'm not a qualified electrician, so if I burn your house down, you're on your own. Houses seem to survive me.

 

[Mr. Swordfish]

I started off as an EE major, wanting to learn how to design high end audio equipment. Kudos to the EE department, who at the time (late 70s) saw that the future of EE was digital and was all-in on digital, with little offered in the analog department. It wasn't for me, but they were right.

Did math and physics instead, learned audio engineering on my own, worked in the business for about 20 years but eventually found that non-audio software was easier and paid better so I did that instead.

The upshot is learn what you can, and be flexible. It's unlikely that any degree is going to teach exactly what you need, and even more unlikely that some company is going to offer you a job doing exactly what you want.

 

[Timcognito]

Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering

Seems like all that stuff is moving to space and earth hardware is becoming a commodity, audio is a very small part. EE or ME major with minor in Acoustics or Acoustics with ME and/or EE. A lot is going on with vehicle and architectural design and integration. Anything with Acoustic Science will keep you close to your current trajectory. If you are just starting out the basics of engineering have most of the same math and physics and most schools allow you not to declare a major right away or a change after a couple of years. Start with a basic discipline at a school that has multiple paths and subjects and IMO acoustics is the the uniting theme for audio.