Have you studied circuits and electronics? I'm not an electrical engineer. The textbook I used, which is pretty popular, assumed you had some background on physics and math. That's true. But in my limited experience, the material was highly algorithmic and not very conceptual. You could probably get by with a functional, but not a fundamental understanding. You could "solve" a circuit, but not solve a nonstandard EM physics problem.

I'm looking at their material: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

I don't consider a lot of the equations to be sophisticated at all.

My opinion: I consider John von Neumann to be a genius. Here's what sets him above the rest: he produced novel results in many different fields. IMO, it's not enough to just ace a course, no matter the age.