This has been a long time coming and it has finally been approved by the academic senate. To better suit the ever changing engineering industry, UCLA starting this year will offer a new major of Computer Engineering. The EE dept will be renamed the ECE dept and offer the majors of CE and EE while the seperate Computer Science Department will offer the majors of CS and CSE. Here is the spectrum of hard ware to software.
EE, CE, CSE, CE
Major requirements are more geared towards hands on projects and the elimination of some of the physics labs. What do you all think? Is Ucla too broad and not focused enough or is it good to have a variety of majors.
UCLA has been making great “computer engineers” for decades. This is more of an administrative change. How the program will be managed; how each department gets to manage the program; how tuition $ and resource will be allocated to each department; how new courses will be added to the curriculum, etc…
The new focus on computer engineering is nice, as more classes and electives will start being created to support this “path”.
I’m an in coming student and the only reason I picked CSE was because it seemed like closest thing to CE. I spoke to some counslors there during orientation and they basically told me all CSE will have the option of switching to CE and the courses are basically the same just more hands on stuff like you said earlier. This is great news for me and I’ll be switching to this major ASAP.
@JC2017 You will still need to switch using the formal Change Of Major form after your first two quarters at UCLA. While it is very similar to CSE it is more on the hardware side hence the “hands on part” since you take more EE classes than CSE. Welcome to UCLA!