Is a Computer Engineering degree worth crap?

[2timer]

Are you guys seriously posting in a thread from 13 years ago?

mad Indian. October 6, 2000:

"LocutusX: What university do you goto? Waterloo?? I'm thinking of going there for Comp Eng"

Farang. March 20, 2013:

"You tell me brah."

I could sit here and type, point by point, all the absurdities that scream out at me about the above exchange.

Or I could shave my head, do a hit of LSD, and wander through the wilderness barefoot and hallucinating for 30 days while I attempt to contemplate the mystery that is Farang.


























Goodbye Anandtech. See you in 30 days.

 

[edro]

I have a CE degree.

It is a cross between EE and CIS. Half electrical, half programming.
If I had it to do over again, I would have done full EE...

I am an electro-mechanical engineer now, so I rarely use programming.

If you want to do IT work, switch to Computer Science.
You won't do hardly any electrical and will focus on programming.

 

[z1ggy]

. So mostly a CE can do any job requiring an EE degree.

Not true... not true at all. CE's no nothing about how complex magnetic systems work, control & drive systems, dielectrics, power distribution.

I should know because I am an EE and my college roomie was a CompE. After sophmore year we had 0 classes together in our related majors, whereas before that, we had almost all of the same classes.

 

[poopaskoopa]

Your game plan shouldn't be limited to being a sys admin with a CPE degree. You'll get a job fine without a CPE/CS degree. Just look at the people who have the jobs you want on linkedin and get a feel for what they did to get there.

If IT is your thing then your game plan should be to get your CPE(or another degree), then work for a company that sells IT stuff/services like Redhat, Oracle, etc(or a reseller/consulting company) and turn your unix skill into a billable service. Then you go get an MBA and become a manager of these professional service people(or a manager of managers, which is when the road to the money begins in the corporate ladder).

You can be a consultant and be their manager without an MBA, obviously, but you'll have more options if you have it. You'll already have some advantage with a CPE degree. When you're a sys admin and you're not able to bill for your service to someone outside your company you're a target for out-sourcing, be it off-shore or some other IaaS type of deals even in-shore.

 

[soulcougher73]

For you, yes.

 

[jupiter57]

I didnt' even realize this Tommy kid's been here since 2000.

That means he's at least my age or older (early 30s).

He posts like he's 12...

I don't understand the timeline at all. In 2000 he was a Freshman in college. He was like 21 in 2005. He's 23 today. What the hell is going on here?!

You guys realize there is no age verification to join here?

I know first-hand that one poster here, no names mentioned (Hi J.L.), joined over 10 years ago when he was 8 YO. He will graduate High School this year.

He can keep up with the best of you when you talk guns, jobs, stocks, etc., & I have a feeling he's not the only one!

 

[hans007]

isnt this tommy kid the same one that is always talking about buying his gf a $1300 purse, or paying for her health care or something.

i was in college in 2000! and thats when i joined anandtech. i was in some major called computer science and computer engineering. i dropped the computer engineering part and just went for the pure major. basically the computer engineering part meant you did some more EE stuff but not a pure EE major.

i figured, well i know what i want to do why do this inbetween major. most of the people i know who graduated with that mixed degree well... are worse programmers. a lot of them work at defense contractors in the area i went to college (los angeles) where i guess the talent at the bottom of the barrel ends it seems.

if you want to program stuff = computer science. circuits and chips = ee. IT job = CIS , though im not particularly impressed with most CIS people since theres lots of good IT / sysadmin types who majored in more or less anything and learned out of books and reading the internet.

 

[_Rick_]

Goodbye Anandtech. See you in 30 days.

You'll come back as Steve Jobs?

 

[z1ggy]

Holy balls I must have been too asleep this morning to realize th OP is the same nub who also posts in L&R about getting circumcised because his ass clown of a g/f didn't like his uncut penis, and the same one who now is asking if he should propose to her after only 3 months. LOL

 

[CountZero]

CS, CE, EE on kind of on a gradient that goes from pure software, crossover, pure hardware.

Any job a CE could do there will be some set of CS people that can do it and/or some set of EE people that can do it. At my school CE was CS + 4 or 5 EE classes and a stricter set of CS classes (OS might be optional for a CS but was required for a CE). For the most part CE people struggled in the EE classes I had with them. Conversely when I took CS classes the CS folks ran circles around me.

Where I used to work our VLSI team had a mix of CS, CE and EE (and a couple physics). Some parts of the job had more people from one discipline or an other and I don't think any CS people did physical design work but there is a lot of crossover when it comes to chip design/large scale system design.

If you want to do IT CE is a waste of time.