Heya, did my undegrads as EE, changed it halfway from a 4 year MENG course to a 3 year bachelors because I was bored of the power distribution related stuff. Went on to do a masters in Advanced Microelectronics Design. I had contact with FPGA's in both my undergrad and my masters. I selected my BENG thesis on an ARM M0 soft implementation on an FPGA that implemented an expanded instruction set with increased performance on the SHA-1 algorithm.