<p>Regardless, I don't think you should mislead people when you yourself don't have enough information. You can't take one side just because there's more support; how would you know if they're right or wrong?</p>
<p>That's all I'm saying, I'm not trying to criticize you in any other way.</p>
<p>I can take a side if I choose, and I did.</p>
<p>Marbles, the Silicon Valley companies you name are full of Cal Poly engineers. Does your dad have much contact with engineering?</p>
<p>so? I can still give it nonetheless</p>
<p>zagat: There's a difference when saying "Engineering" and Computer Science. I believe the original poster in this thread was referring to Computer Programmers, and not Computer Engineers. My dad is a Computer Programmer, so I'm qualified to comment on CalPoly Engineers. However, I do know that my dad hasn't seen my Computer Programmers from CalPoly SLO - which is the information the original poster is asking for; this is just my $0.02.</p>
<p>I didn't say I was right, I just said I thought that. I don't issue a formal apology for simple things. I don't really care if I come off as snobbish on a message board.</p>
<p>Um marbles, at UCI the department is called Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. One and the same department although different degrees can come out of it. A comp sci grad could easily be a programmer but may not be an EE so would not likely be an architect.</p>
<p>zagat: According to UC Irvine's website, the "DONALD BREN SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE" offers "Computer Science" as a major.</p>
<p>Ultimately, whether the original poster chooses CalPoly SLO or UC Irvine, the point is that you should try your best at Computer Science in either school. If you're creative and knowledgable in Computer Science, you'll excel in the workplace. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>Socalnick,</p>
<p>So far I haven't seen any CalPoly student in Oracle. </p>
<p>At least for this company (and Microsoft, but it's not in Valley anyway) I would support Marbles statement.</p>
<p>Ah yes, the "recently established" Bren school. Engineering, information, computer science, they are all deeply connected.</p>
<p>Marbles: I'd be interested in how you rate schools as 1st or 2nd tier. Also, my dad's company far prefers CP grads to UC grads, and it is based in the Bay Area. I wouldn't generalize that the entire area thinks more highly of UCI.</p>
<p>-rtkysg
Im not shure what softwear companys think of cal poly students, since computer programming is different then computer enginnering.
Cal Poly has a motto, "learn by doing". When it comes to pratical applications of engineering cal poly is in some ways better then some UCs which teach more theory.
I have visited the cal poly capus and for alot of the engineering classrooms there is engineerging stuff.</p>
<p>Now wait, we were comparing Cal Poly and lower UCs, not UCs in general. UCB produces engineers that compete with those at MIT, Cal Tech and Stanford. LA and SDs are not on the UCB level, but defenitely get more strategic jobs than a Cal Poly grad. </p>
<p>People who hire a lot of rank and file engineers know Cal Poly produces a good quality worker bee engineer. UCB produces architects and CTOs.</p>
<p>lol, If you want to get into architecture, Cal Poly has been ranked in the top three nationally for the past couple years.</p>
<p>if you got that i hinted in any way that cal poly produces better enginers then Berkely UCLA or UCSD i must have mislead you. I am more drawing a comparason between UCI and Cal Poly (since SB is more liberal arts and humanities and Davis is more agraculture and a medical school).</p>
<p>I wasn't talking about teaching architecture, I'm talking about who produces the key architects in Silicon Valley. Without a doubt it's MIT, CIT, UCB and Stanford.</p>
<p>Why do you think those schools produce the top architects?</p>
<p>Perhaps because they had the smartest kids in the first place?</p>
<p>So then are the top ten schools going to produce the top workers in every profession?</p>