A decision coming

Well, my field is electrical engineering. It's the sort of behind the scenes thing that nobody will ever really recognize as the force that has completely changed their lives. I currently am standing on the divide between the two fields that will revolutionize and rebuild the world as we know it. On one hand there is Controls, the building of smarter machines that will take care of things for us, on the other hand there is Communications, the increasing of our capability to have all the information we could ever want at our finger tips. The human race has already experienced some of the full force greatness of communications. The internet is the prime example (although not 100% communications in the EE sense); humanity is already addicted to notion that anything that you want to know can be found in 0.000567 seconds by a Google search. From an EE point of view what if we could transmit more data, more faithfully, further, and fastest? Who do you think comes up with the protocals for WiFi or Radio or anything else? The EE's are the one's expanding bandwidth, range, and speed-everybody else just uses that.
The true potential of Controls has not yet been seen. I mean you still have to do mundane tasks like changing the toliet paper when it runs out and it is ridiculous, at this point, to think of a machine to do that sort of thing for you. But when I was a kid it was ridiculous to think that I could write a letter to some one across the world and they could be reading it in seconds, or to think that I could sit outside with a laptop and edit a document in real time with a group of people anywhere that got signal. What controls needs is an extremely cheap but reliable carrier. Sure a car that drives itself would be nice but your not going to pay 10 grand on top of the price of the car to get a second rate system. No you want to pay 5 bucks for some device that performs a task perfectly and continually. Perhaps a plug in that regulates temperature of the house based on your temperature. Perhaps not. Controls is still that mysterious force that might never come out from behind the curtain.
I have right now the foundation to do either, but what I want, what would be most exciting would be to do both. I hadn't even thought of this Cognitive Radio business before, but it's a perfect fit for me, both intellectually and financially. Imagine a radio that can share a broad transmission bandwidth with a large number of other devices. This radio only transmits on frequencies not currently in use and the receiver seamless switches frequencies along with the transmitter. That's Cognitive Radio. It's a smart radio that can sense it's environment and react to it. To accomplish this task you have to have embedded systems knowledge to build the controller (something I'll get from my CPE degree), knowledge of controls to tell the systems what to do with the data it gets(something I'll get from my interest in Controls), and knowledge of radio waves and communications so you know what and how to transmits and receive (another thing I'll get from EE). This really feels like the perfect project form me. I hope it goes through, but I feel as though I'll find myself working on this even if I don't get the chance to do so with Dr. Bostian.
Still waiting on the email, I have to cut the man some slack though as he's currently putting together a proposal for $5million that could very well kick off my career in the field.