Computer Engineers

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
haha i switched from comp E to EE after i took a class called advanced algorithms and data structures, EE was easier for me

what are you having trouble with?

Pffft. I'm a CE major in Data Structures now, and it's by far my easiest class. My CPEG 202 Intro to digital systems (gates, sequential logic, decoders, encoders, registers, k-maps, boolean algebra, and all that good stuff) was way harder. Then again, I've been programming since sophomore year of HS, so I'm a leg up on most in the computer science courses.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Perhaps the most frustrating thing about the EE courses I had to take was the fact that you can't readily verify or "see" anything you learn about in EE. Things like voltages, current, etc. you basically have to take at face value. It wasn't until my senior year that I really began to understand things at a fundamental level.

Computer science concepts are infinitely easier to grasp IMHO.

Still if you are wavering between a CE and CS degree I would whole-heartedly recommend the CE route. Software programmers are a dime a dozen, but if you are one with real EE knowledge you become infinitely more valuable to a lot of companies.

 

[fffblackmage]

I switched from CE to EE. Programming frustrated me to no end. Always something wrong in my code. >_>

 

[bobsmith1492]

Originally posted by: OneOfTheseDays
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about the EE courses I had to take was the fact that you can't readily verify or "see" anything you learn about in EE. Things like voltages, current, etc. you basically have to take at face value. It wasn't until my senior year that I really began to understand things at a fundamental level.

Computer science concepts are infinitely easier to grasp IMHO.

Still if you are wavering between a CE and CS degree I would whole-heartedly recommend the CE route. Software programmers are a dime a dozen, but if you are one with real EE knowledge you become infinitely more valuable to a lot of companies.

You can see everything... you just need the right tools! Remember the voltmeter and the oscilloscope?

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492

Originally posted by: OneOfTheseDays
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about the EE courses I had to take was the fact that you can't readily verify or "see" anything you learn about in EE. Things like voltages, current, etc. you basically have to take at face value. It wasn't until my senior year that I really began to understand things at a fundamental level.

Computer science concepts are infinitely easier to grasp IMHO.

Still if you are wavering between a CE and CS degree I would whole-heartedly recommend the CE route. Software programmers are a dime a dozen, but if you are one with real EE knowledge you become infinitely more valuable to a lot of companies.

You can see everything... you just need the right tools! Remember the voltmeter and the oscilloscope?

The short detector on the DMM saved me A LOT Of time this past week

 

[acheron]

My undergrad degree was in CS. I'm planning to go for a master's, and have been contemplating getting it in CompE instead of CS or something more closely related to CS ("software engineering" or something a little fluffier like that). One problem is that I graduated 5 years ago, so it's been awhile. Plus, I'm probably missing the undergrad prereqs for the MS CompE program, so I'd have to take undergrad classes too. I don't know.