Should I take EE or Computer Engineering

[Brian23]

When I was about to sign up for college, I almost signed up for computer science because I enjoy programming. My father convinced me that the curriculum is about the same in Computer Engineering as Computer Science, so I signed up for CpE. A few semesters later, I took an electronics course. I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure if that's what I want to do for the rest of my life. So, I signed up for a co-op doing electrical engineering work. It went well and it was interesting, but I still think programming is interesting too. Now I'm getting to the point in school where I have to decide to go EE or CpE. I enjoy writing code, but I think I'll have more oportunities with a EE degree. Most people I have talked to didn't know what a computer engineer was until I told them. Which should I pick?

 

[engineereeyore]

Being in school and having recently made that decision, I chose EE. The reason was easy for me, though obviously you're a different person, but here's what I came up with. EE offers a lot more options once you're done with school. Of course you can go do computer stuff, programming, design, whatever, but then if you get bored, you can do something else. EE is such a wide field of study that most of your real learning takes place after graduation. College is just a big long prep course. But if you get a degree in CompE and you get bored with computers, you don't have as many options available.

As for programming, I enjoy it as well. And trust me, you'll do plenty of it in either field. What I did though was to fill up my elective courses with those that were required for CompE's, such as network programming, concurrent programming, and real-time systems. I also did a minor in CS. That way, I've got the basics for EE done, plus I've got a good background in computer science and programming as well. Currently working on my master's degree which is nice too.

Long story short, I'd go with EE and just use your elective to cover the other "interesting" stuff.