What is EEECS?

Is Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science a double major? Is this a BSc or a MS program? Right now, I’m working on a Computer Engineering degree at the undergraduate level. I was wondering about EEECS in order to – possibly – revise my plan.

For example, is Computer Engineering a combination of electrical engineering and computer science? If so, does this mean that I have to do Electrical and Electronics engineering in my master’s program to form the EEECS?

The courses I have taken applies to EE and CE at the moment, so there won’t be wasted units if I was to switch.

I might have answer the question?

“A degree in computer engineering (also called EECS in other schools like UC Berkeley) is a combination of computer science and electrical engineering. If analog stuff bore you, they take that out of the EE side and instead put in more courses on computer programming, discrete mathematics and linear algebra. So your EE side is geared towards building digital hardware and your CS side is geared to programming that hardware.” –http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/9568069/#Comment_9568069

EECS is usually an Engineering “Department” under the College of Engineering.With in this department, you would find both EE and Computer Science or/and Computer Engineering degree programs.

Some schools have independent departments for EE, CS and CE. In some schools CS is within the college of liberal arts and not the college of engineering. At some schools Computer Engineering isn’t a separate degree program, but a focus under Electrical Engineering…you get the idea.

Some schools (like UC-Berkeley) have an EECS major that combines fundamentals of computer science and electrical engineering in one major. See the following link for some examples of the EECS major being combine to form a dual major with other engineering majors.

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/education/degrees.shtml

This all goes back to the history of EE and CS programs (at a specific school).