Computer Engineering

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>Any thoughts on this major? I am currently in IE but I worked in IT for 3 years prior to going back to school. I have been a bit frustrated with my IE classes, so I am trying to keep my options open.</p>

<p>I watched an hour long online lecture on Embedded Systems and that was probably one of the most interesting topics I have learned about in the last two years. </p>

<p>I was not only engaged for the entire hour but I can still remember everything he talked about, something that hardly ever happens with my IE classes or this Materials Engineering class I am taking, I usually zone out after 5 minutes and find it very boring and hard to follow which translates to lack of interest and consequently mediocre performance.</p>

<p>I tried to explore a few other topics like Digital Logic and Algorithms. I found both very interesting and in sync with the way my brain is wired. I am not saying I am going to change my major but I just wanted to learn more about the CprE major and what it entails.</p>

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<p>Does your school offer an HCI/Ergonomics/Human Factors type specialization? You’ll skip the heavy duty math and focus more on usability, man-machine interfaces,etc. Couple that with a minor in CompSci and you should be good to go. I think you’re at Iowa State, right? </p>

<p>You mentioned you were not a big fan of Ergonomics, time/motion studies and the like. True, I’ve only done those for school (McDonald’s has done those, Wendy’s thinks they did, everyone else… meh). But classes like Usability Analysis allow me to run a clinic where we test prototypes, measure user distraction, error rates, and lots of other things. If you’re good in art/design you can get into the design side of things as well, storyboards, simulations (Altia and the like). I do some of those too. Then with a minor in CS you can get to code whatever you need.</p>

<p>If you worked in IT you should have some of the basics of programming etc. so it should not be that difficult. </p>