Electrical Engineering or Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Learning computer science is pretty important. . . how do you think the HOG, SMMH, Cathedral, etc… were designed?

Developing a good knowledge of Electrical Engineer, Sound Engineering, and Computer Science could help you a great deal either way.

While you’re in school you could supplement your education by learning on DIYstompboxes and Geofex about building pedals.

I’d recommend starting by building an NPN Dallas Rangemaster. It’s a very simple build and there’s a lot of information on them.

Also, Tim Escobedo’s Circuit Snippets has a lot of very simple designs that you could try on a breadboard. Getting a nice breadboarding set up is nice for when you start out. I like to have a breadboard mounted to a piece of wood with a big piece of metal with some input and output jacks, a power jack, and a bunch of pots can easily be mounted and removed.

here are Tim Escobedo’s Circuit Snippets:

http://www.jiggawoo.eclipse.co.uk/guitarhq/Circuitsnippets/snippets.html

I’m NOT an EE but I have a design I have been wanting to license to a company (EHX?) for ages, I just haven’t done anything about it.

EHX would be more suited as the pedal itself fits right in with their line of pedals. (I actually designed it with that intention)

I know of quite a few guys who are NOT EE’s and they sell their designs to other companies and they make them under their name.

So its possible to do. But the question was “I’m wondering if it is recommend that I have an electrical engineering degree to be able to get a job for an effects pedal company”. To be able to get a job WITH a pedal company I recommend it. But to license TO and effect pedal company there really is no need if you already know what you’re doing.