<p>Hello all, I am a senior and I would like to become a Computer Engineer. but I have a question. What exactly will I study? What can a computer Engineer do? Does he master Both software and Hardware? If not, please suggest me some majors that can help me master as much as I can about computers. I don't care about the years I have to study.</p>
<p>Thank You For Every Help!</p>
<p>Sorry, if I posted on wrong section, or the question is asked, but i couldn't find one.</p>
<p>CE would give you good breadth in your study of computers. Generally, you will skim the surface of both CS and EE, and likely take some courses which are electives in those majors… architecture, organization, etc. Odds are you will get some software engineering training in there as well.</p>
<p>CS will not have you do much with hardware.</p>
<p>EE will not have you do much with software.</p>
<p>SE - if your institution offers it - will be, like CE, more of a blend of CS and EE. Comparing SE to CE, CE will be closer to EE and SE will be closer to CS. Courses taken which are elective in other majors would focus on software development.</p>
<p>I would say CE or SE are your best bets, and you can supplement either with courses in areas you find interesting.</p>
<p>PSA:
CE = Civil Engineering
ChE = Chemical Engineering
CmpE = Computer Engineering</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>Sorry, I usually just use CE for computer engineering, because I rarely have occasion to say anything about civil. I hope that in light of the current context my meaning was clear.</p>
<p>CmpEs are experts on that area of EE known as digital logic systems. They design everything from microprocessors to embedded systems for missiles, cell phones, and cameras. Depending on your school, EE and CmpE may be the same major but with different study tracks.</p>
<p>Depending on what you mean by “mastering software,” I’d say yes, although you will not be studying the hardcore CS topics that CS majors study (if you were under the impression that all CS majors studied was programming, drop that impression instantly, they are to mathematicians what CmpEs are to EEs). CmpEs often work on embedded software, and they are qualified to work on any software in which hardcore math skills (don’t ask Auburn what that means) or a knowledge of computer hardware is essential, such as computer graphics or scientific simulations. Although I should add that this will mean doing more studying on your own or taking some CS electives to bone up on your software development skills. In CmpE, they teach you what software development skills you need to be able to develop the software that CmpEs will use on the job. Anything extra, like 3D graphics or compiler-design, would be left for you to study on your own or take as an elective.</p>
<p>Let me also add that most engineers don’t work on designs (at least not officially), they work on other peoples’ designs.</p>
<p>I mean, if you want to become a general-purpose software engineer, CS/SE are probably better options than CE… just because you spend more time on software in the large rather than software in the small.</p>
<p>“CmpEs often work on embedded software, and they are qualified to work on any software in which hardcore math skills (don’t ask Auburn what that means) or a knowledge of computer hardware is essential, such as computer graphics or scientific simulations.”
<p>CmpEs often work on embedded software, and they are qualified to work on any software in which a working knowledge of intermediate continuous mathematics or a knowledge of computer hardware is essential, such as real-time systems, embedded systems, etc.</p>
<p>Thank You all, I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Don’t thank me. Thank the moon’s gravitational pull.</p>
<p>^ I didn’t get it.</p>
<p>sigh…</p>
<p>The younger generation only knows Futurama and Family Guy, it knows nothing of classic Simpsons!</p>
<p>Ya see, back in the 90s, The Simpsons was actually a good show. In fact, many people think it was the best-written show <em>ever</em>. It was just freakishly good and gut-bustingly funny and witty. And it was customary for nerds to have many lines memorized. Not the unwatchable crap that it has since become.</p>
<p>In one episode somebody is watching a MacGyver episode (I believe this was the third-season episode where Aunt Patty or Selma marries Sideshow Bob). All you heard was the dialogue in a brief exchange at the end of the episode:</p>
<p>Man with Mexican accent: Thank you senor MacGyver, you have saved our village!</p>
<p>MacGyver: (with that suitably smug “tv guy” accent that only Hank Azaria can do) Don’t thank me, thank the moon’s gravitational pull!</p>
<p>It played off the fact that MacGyver often saved the day by rigging makeshift inventions.</p>
<p>you remember that much!</p>
<p>Simpsons seasons 2-8 are among the best seasons of episodic television ever produced.</p>
<p>Mmm, I’d say 3-7. Three was when The Simpsons “became The Simpsons,” to coin a phrase (yeah, I coined it, don’t look it up). Eight was a great season, but that was the season when it was starting to show the signs of the show it would become. It was kind of like eating a piece of a really good cake on the day when the icing is starting to go crusty and hard and the cake is starting to go stale, but it’s still tasty. You know, before it becomes a brick.</p>