<p>I like the sound of them both, but I don't know which to choose. I think that Electrical is the most versatile of the two, but I am quite interested in computers.</p>
<p>What are your suggestions?</p>
<p>Look at the curricula, and choose the program which looks better or more interesting. Have in mind what your next step after school is going to be, and decide how - if at all - this consideration enters into your decision.</p>
<p>Example: you want to go to graduate school in electrical engineering to study communications systems. You check the curricula and see that the EE program allows you to take more coursework aimed at communications systems, and decide that to best prepare yourself for graduate study in communications systems, the EE program is the superior choice.</p>
<p>Example: you really have no idea what you want to study, just that you’re good at math and science and want to get a 9-5 with good pay and benefits after finishing your undergraduate degree. You don’t really care what you end up working in, but want to maximize your chances of getting a job, and one that pays as well as possible. After looking into employment projections you determine that computing looks like a safe bet and find that the CmpE program offers you more breadth and depth in computing topics, making it the better choice.</p>
<p>My son started out as an EE major and switched to computer engineering after 2 quarters. At his college computer engineering was a program, not a department, that had some of its own coursework while drawing heavily from the EE and CS curricula. He decided to switch because he wanted to take more software courses than what he could as strictly an EE major, while keeping involved in the hardware side as well.</p>
<p>What are your preferences? Do you lean more towards hardware or software?</p>
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<p>Thank you for your examples and your advice. After speaking with a co-worker of mine, I think that I will stick with Electrical Engineering because computer engineering material that I am interested is covered in EE.</p>
<p>EE major may involve more tedious work(due to the diversity of areas within EE), but CE involves a lot of things dealing with hardware. If you just want to lay back in your chair to program things to do useful things instead of actually building some hardware, then you should probably choose EE.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>What?!?!?</p>