EE major, have chance to to work as web-developer for internship

[Kdar]

Actually I am studying an electrical engineering major. I am on my 3rd year now and looking for a co-op job (I had one before, but the term there ended).

Anyway, I got an offer from one company to work as web-developer (internship/co-op position). Also it is a part-time job, 20 hours, and during other time I would go to my classes.

I had previous experience working as freelance web-designer on the side.. Doing different web-sites for different people. By which they were kind of impresses. So they made me an offer recently.

This job will be more of the programming type (different from my last co-op, which was strictly engineering, hardware, worked in factory). I am thinking maybe by this I might able to learn more about programming (even that I would probably mostly deal with PHP, more of a scripting language, but there is also a chance that I could work with C# too, they are developing one software product as well).

I kind of need some opinion advice.

So what do you think? Should I take it and work there?

If you were EE major, would you consider internship with more programming oriented company?

[TheOrangePeanut]

I would say it can't hurt to have professional experience in more than one field. If you don't have another chance at something more relevant to your degree, I say it's worth a shot.

[audiomick]

If you still have enough time for your classes and have a good enough feeling about the employer, go for it. It is all experience, and that is always good.

[red_Marvin]

I'm majoring in ee too, and at least here it is a very broad major, it goes all the way from mechanical engineering and to pure software, as well as through power electronics and semiconductor physics. All depending on what specialisation is chosen, so I cannot really say how relevant it is to the major, but work experience is always good.

[Kdar]

I might go with it, since I don't have any other co-op at this time (I am really hope to find a job for this or summer semester). Maybe there I could learn more about programming, how its done in real world, not just what they teach in classroom.