<p>I am a senior in high school who loves computers and IT in general. I even competed nationally with FBLA in Cyber Security and placed top 10. I understand the mathematics that my teachers teach me, but I don't necessarily love it, and there are times when it can take me a while to grasp a concept. I am wanting to major in computer engineering at the University of TN in Knoxville. What I am basicy wanting to know is this, if there are any computer engineers on this board, or anyone studying Computer engineering, how much do you enjoy it? What is it like?</p>
<p>As a computer science major and accelerated master’s computer engineering graduate, I would like to petition for the same input as well as the OP.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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<p>^ a computer engineering major griping about using an oscilloscope?? Wow.</p>
<p>Basically, computer engineering is a mix of computer science and electrical engineering. The EE portion focuses on computer issues rather than power engineering, antenna design, etc.</p>
<p>What kinds of things did you do for the Cyber Security competition - was it mostly programming?</p>
<p>EE and Cmpe are very similar. Cmpe takes a few more programming courses and generally one additional math course.</p>
<p>To be honest the cyber security competition was not so much programming orientated, but mainly " If Susan encrypts a message with her private key, and sends it to you, which key would you use to decrypt it?", and different knowledge about computer networking concepts and possible exploits with different protocols and services. Such as FTP offers no native encryption for the user name and PW. While that seems like easy stuff, it took me 5 months studying for about 1 hour a night to get the knowledge necessary to place that high.</p>
<p>If you could imagine security+ that would be the best way to describe it, since that is the materiel I used to study.</p>
<p>Im somewhat surprised btw that a computer engineer would take more math than an electrical engineer.</p>
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<p>that depends on the school and the programs. Usually for the normal engineering math (calculus, diff eq, linear algebra…) electrical engineers take more of those. For the proof / discrete math (some are computer science classes) computer engineers take more of those.</p>
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<p>EE majors generally aren’t required to take a discrete mathematics elective.</p>
<p>I don’t think anybody is required to take a discrete mathematics elective… by definition…</p>
<p>There’s a couple of discrete math classes available to take. So oddly enough some of us call it a ‘required discrete math elective’.
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Ah, an example of the huge bulk of idiots that come to Tech as a cause of the incredibly high admission rate.</p>
<p>“There’s a couple of discrete math classes available to take. So oddly enough some of us call it a ‘required discrete math elective’.”
- I know, I was just being difficult. </p>
<p>"Ah, an example of the huge bulk of idiots that come to Tech as a cause of the incredibly high admission rate. "
- Wow, that’s a sad post. Maybe that guy should major in music so he can learn to play himself a song on a tiny violin.</p>
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<p>[Bachelor</a> of Science in Computer Engineering Degree Requirements](<a href=“http://www.ece.gatech.edu/academics/undergrad/cmpe_require.html]Bachelor”>http://www.ece.gatech.edu/academics/undergrad/cmpe_require.html)</p>
<p>by definition</p>
<p>The joke is that it’s not an elective if you have to take it.</p>
<p>It’s funny because it’s an oxymoron.</p>
<p>The joke is funny for you, explaining the joke is funny for me.</p>
<p>hilarious…</p>