<p>After San Jose/Silicon valley, which area of the US has the greatest cluster of companies which hire EE/CS students?</p>
<p>anywhere Lockheed is located.</p>
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anywhere Lockheed is located.
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<p>Oh come on. Lockheed isn't THAT big. It has 135k employees. Contrast that to, say, IBM, which has 341k, or about 2.5 times as many. Hewlett Packard, AT&T, and Verizon also have more employees than Lockheed, with 156k, 189k and 217k people respectively. All of these companies obviously employ a large proportion of EE/CS people. </p>
<p><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=LMT%5B/url%5D">http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=LMT</a>
<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=IBM%5B/url%5D">http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=IBM</a>
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After San Jose/Silicon valley, which area of the US has the greatest cluster of companies which hire EE/CS students?
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<p>The difficulty is that EE/CS comprises a wide range of fields. There is pure software development, there is telecom/networking, there is computer hardware, there is Web/Internet work, there is semiconductor design/manufacturing, and so on. Just because one part of the country is strong at one area doesn't mean that it's strong in others. Albuquerque, New Mexico is strong in semiconductor manufacturing (because of the 2 huge nearby Intel fab plants, Fab 11 and Fab11X), but is not strong in other areas of EE/CS. Albuquerque isn't even really that strong in semiconductor design, as the Intel design work is largely done elsewhere. </p>
<p>However, to give you some general ideas, strong sectors of EE/Cs employment other than Silicon Valley would be Boston, Washington DC/Northern Virginia, San Diego, Portland/Hillsboro Oregon, Seattle/Redmond Washington, Dallas/Richardson/Fort Worth, Raleigh/Durham North Carolina. That is a far from conclusive list, however.</p>
<p>Chicago, for example. Motorola is based here. And, the city has a directive to set a software tax-free corridor near Printer's Row (very near southside, that's just south of the Loop, about 3 miles north of US Cellular Field. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo and Motorola have all said they will set up there, beginning I believe in 2008).</p>
<p>So, yeah, they are even being used here in the Midwest. Go Bears!</p>
<p>I really support companies getting the hell out of California, I could never live in such a place.</p>
<p>come to NY please.</p>
<p>A lot of financial/investment banking firms hire EE's from my school in NY.</p>
<p>I don't understand why some people double major in EE/CS. Electrical engineering deals with the transfer of energy while CE (computer engieering) deals wit the transfer of information. Thus, it make logically sense to spend more time in computer engineering and computer science if you are heading in this field.</p>
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don't understand why some people double major in EE/CS.
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<p>Uh, I don't think anybody raised the issue of double-majoring. Many schools, don't allow the choice of allowing people to major in EE or CS (or CE). They offer just the single unified choice of "EECS". </p>
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Electrical engineering deals with the transfer of energy CE (computer engieering) deals wit the transfer of information.
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<p>I also wouldn't charactize the matter with such a strict dichotomy. Believe me, there are PLENTY of EE's who deal with the transfer of information. EE's were transmitting information before the computer was even invented. For example, EE's were central to the development of the radio, the telephone, and the television, and these are all information transfer devices that existed years before the first electric computer. Today, all of the EE's that specialize in signal analysis/signal processing are basically involved in the business of information transfer. Or take the microchip. All those EE's doing semiconductor fabrication and design are involved in the business of information transfer.</p>
<p>My focus is in VSLI and semiconductors, thats EE and CSE.</p>
<p>Im a EE & CSE major</p>
<p>Thumbs UP</p>
<p>Oh yeah, Most EE programs do electric engineering as well as Electronics engineering, big difference, thogh I know my school does both in the same curriculum.</p>
<p>EE and CSE are so close at my school, its only 3 more classes to get a dual degree. </p>
<p>Physics 3
Electromag
and a extra circuits lab</p>
<p>It seems to me that "Electronics Engineering" is offered less as majors, why is that?</p>
<p>It shouldn't matter much whether I choose CS & CE or CS & EE. It would be important for me to look at the course curriculum for CE and EE and decide what is best for me. EE would give me a broader career opportunity. Agree with the statement above?</p>
<p>What do you people know about Optical engineering? How is the outlook and isn't it somewhat related to EE?</p>
<p>I can't believe nobody mentioned Austin.</p>
<p>Why do you hate California circuit?</p>
<p>For one, it's hellishly expensive. I specifically avoided California when it came to school and employment.</p>