Computer engineering vs software engineering

<p>Hey guys so I am looking for advice I am attending iowa state in the spring and I am not sure which major to go with computer engineering or software engineering yes they are two seperate degrees at iowa state!! I am curious about job prospects salary! Thanks in advance</p>

<p>Well what are you interested in and what types of careers sound ideal to you?</p>

<p>Computer engineering is more hardware oriented than computer science or software engineering.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ece.iastate.edu/academics/differences-among-majors/[/url]”>http://www.ece.iastate.edu/academics/differences-among-majors/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Anybody know about salaries and job prospect</p>

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<p>Brogrammer I like programming but I’m also interested in embedded systems</p>

<p>read some of the postings i have made on this board on the very subject. For embedded systems work I’d go ECE with a heavy dose of CS, a lot more heavy than the ‘duh, here is the Python environment, write code that does X Y Z’… </p>

<p>The CS part of embedded is usually not THAT difficult (we’re not talking mountains of code - usually -) but the hardware aspects one needs in embedded work are a lot more covered in ECE than in CS.</p>