Or is it more physics/application based?
What’s the difference? Math is required onunderstand and apply physics.
At umich, computer engineering is kind of the “in between of electrical engineering (EE) and computer science (CS)”. You have more freedom to choose which side you would prefer to focus on. If you want to focus on the more EE side (optics, solid state, electromagnetics, circuits), then it can be very math heavy. If you want to focus on the more CS side (hardware, software), it won’t be as math heavy, however you can still expect a good amount of math to be used in any type of engineering.
Computer science basically is math. It’s just not calculus, etc.
Not as heavy as electrical, but you still need it.
Just my school as a reference:
2 semesters of circuits, a signals and systems course, and an engineering probability/statistics course. Up to Calculus II and differential equations as math classes.
Then the other classes you don’t really use as much “math.”