<p>What is the difference between the two? The majors are sometimes listed together as one major, and sometimes seperate. What is the main differences in study and careers?</p>
<p>CE is a branch of EE. instead of taking advanced EE courses you take courses in computer science. I have heard computer engineering described as 80% of an EE major with 50% of a computer science major. For careers, CE can do some EE and some Computer Science jobs and even a little bit of software engineering. Being an EE is more depth less breadth and because of that you would have less fields open to you but more opportunities in that field. EE majors can also do occasional CS work but it really depends on how many CS classes they took.</p>
<p>^^He got it. </p>
<p>I would go with EE though, it seems that there are more opportunities for EE than CompE. At my prosepective college: there are about 50 EE seniors and 19 CompE seniors, go figure.</p>
<p>As far as demand and money are concerned, as zman has pointed out, there are far less CEs then EEs. However, because our nation is growing in technology, there is a high demand for CEs. Because of this, CEs tend to have significantly higher salaries than EEs. Also, according to the Federal Labor Burough, jobs in CE are expected to rapidly increase at least in the next 10 years.</p>
<p>EE the one with the most demand
CE the best payed</p>
<p>I would recommend choosing the major for interest rather than for job prospects. Just saying. EE and CE are similar but more different than you’d think as college majors. I have heard some CE majors complain that there’s not enough depth at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Comparison in careers with job securities? My dad is against anything computer related due to job security. He believe CE is IT, and IT have bad security.</p>
<p>Heh, check the BLS OOH (just Google that, literally). Check the “Engineers” page and the “Software Engineers” page. Compare.</p>
<p>Computer engineering is about the design and low-level use of a computer. This involves a fair bit of both CS and EE. It varies a bit by school, but that’s pretty close. You are generally looking at topics from computer design (VLSI, computer architecture), embedded systems (including DSP), and system software (OS, compilers, maybe networks or databases).</p>
<p>In some schools it’s part of CS (such departments are usually called CSE for computer science and engineering) in some in is in EE (such departments are called ECE for electrical and computer engineering) and in a few it is in one joint department (EECS) or split between the other two.</p>
<p>CE is NOT a subset of EE at any reasonable school. It has significant overlap, but involves a different set of skills (usually less calc/physics and more high-level thinking and programming).</p>
<p>Oh, at the moment software is doing better than hardware in the job market. This tends to go back-and-forth every 5-10 years. That said, I strongly endorse what AuburnMathTutor said. Take a class or two of each (digital logic for CE, circuits for EE) and see what you like best rather than trying to play the market. The market moves too fast–you’ll do better in the field you enjoy.</p>
<p>So if I wanted a career related to robotics. or wanted to work for companies such as IBM, and Intel, without programming extensively (I really don’t want to sit in front of a computer more than I already do), would I be better off with CE or EE.</p>
<p>Kalookakoo, </p>
<h1>1 if you are working at IBM or Intel you are going to be in front of a computer all day just as much as the programmers unless you are on the fab floor or something. Honestly, most engineers, unless they are messing with a factory floor or other physical parts (and that’s rare at IBM/Intel) are probably sitting in front of a computer.</h1>
<h1>2 It’s going to depend on the school. CE is probably a better match in general for those companies, but an EE specialized in computer design (VLSI most likely around here) would be equally valid. You basically want to take as much computer architecture, VLSI and (to a lesser extent) programming as you can get…</h1>
<p>EEs deal with mainly electronics and robotics and can hold their own when it comes to computer programming. </p>
<p>Just because you work for a computer company doesnt necessairly mean you will be working with computers. For example: If you major in EE and get a job with Intel you may help them maintain their power system.</p>
<p>I know someone who wants to get a job with proctor and gamble (they make household products), but he wants to be their programmer. Go figure. Every company needs good programmers as well as electrical engineers. </p>
<p>However, if you are interested in furthering their technology, getting a job with a company like Intel or IBM is a good way to go.</p>
<p>^^^ they can both get jobs with robotics. it would depend on what part of robotics you wanted to work with</p>
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<p>Factually wrong post. Check IEEE salary statistics and look at mid-career salaries. Software jobs are in the middle, beating out power and control, matching EM, and getting beat by communications, signal processing, and circuits/solid state. Computer hardware jobs match signal processing and circuits and get beat by communications. The differences are on the order of only ~5k/year, and it’s up to you whether you want to call that “significantly higher” or not. But in any case, it’s inappropriate to say CompE has higher salaries than EE when CompE is just a branch of EE and there are other branches of EE that pay more.</p>
<p>“Comparison in careers with job securities? My dad is against anything computer related due to job security. He believe CE is IT, and IT have bad security.”</p>
<p>I don’t know where you live geographically, but here in Washington DC, they have this entity called the “Federal Government” that controls a lot of these federal agencies that employs a lot of I.T. folks.</p>
<p>Now I have only been contracting for federal agencies for 5 years. I did 15 years in the I.T. private sector (pharmaceuticals, healthcare, financial, insurance). Never a downtime and even had offers during our recession.</p>