Computer Science... Engineering?

[Supervisor]

<p>Hi all,</p>

<p>I have always been interested in Engineering and want to pursue Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering.
Now, when I go on the CommonApp to select these majors on the different college supplementals, there is a problem...</p>

<p>Thinking that these two majors are in the same category, I expected them to be located under "Engineering," but in some cases, Computer Science is located under the Sciences.</p>

<p>So, I must ask the following question: Is Computer Science programming?
I thought so - well, mostly about programming.
Is there something I am missing?</p>

<p>tl;dr?
Is Computer Science strictly programming? Why is it not always located under the "Engineering" field?</p>

<p>Thanks guys,
-Supervisor</p>

[jwxie]

<p>Here are the recommendation readingins… please read them
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/961054-cs-count-engineering.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/961054-cs-count-engineering.html&lt;/a&gt;
Here is the response I made

The nature of computer science is not engineering in my opinion, although I personally think computer science should be include in engineering school. Many schools don’t agree with that.</p>

<p>Computer science is not software engineering. Software engineering is just part of what modern computer science curriculum has. Computer science is the study of electronic computation. Like chemistry, it is the study of matters and their changes. You get the idea although the words I use are not very good. Binary, data structure, alorgthum, set theory, graph theory, these are not engineering. They are branches of study from various fields, like math and physics.</p>

<p>By standard, computer science is a science. But in practice, computer science is an engineering discipline. It is therefore, a cross-discipline.</p>

<p>Today computer science, like physics, has two groups: practical and theoretical in my opinion. A computer scientist concerns about the study of computer science. They could be an engineer too.</p>

<p>Computer engineering is not the engineering of computer science. Computer engineering is engineering of software and hardware at the level of computer (computation).

</p>

<p>No. Computer Science is not programming. Programming is like a new way of writing… and publishing…</p>

<p>Software engineering is just a method people use programming language to organize and create applications, for practical purpose…</p>

<p>Computer engineering is when software and hardware meets.
Practically, it doesn’t matter in the end…</p>

[Supervisor]

<p>Very good reply.
Hope you stay on CC for a long time and are able to help others.</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>

[jwxie]

<p>These are just what I believe, since I am a rising sophomore. I am sure others will correct me if I am wrong.</p>

[Supervisor]

<p>You are still my Engineering person.</p>

<p>Stop being so modest!
You are a genius in every way.</p>