I just finished as a CE last year, and the reason I chose CE over EE was
simple:  I didn't want to take the analog control systems class.  That's
it.  It also would have gotten me out of the power systems I class, but
they only added the CE option after I had taken power systems.

I still had to take all the electronics classes.  And (not to offend anyone)
I found most of the CS courses that I took for programming to be too...
simple.  I learned far more in my EE classes.  And, in fact, I'm now in a
job position which was described for a EE and I'm doing fine.

I guess the lesson is, do whichever you want, but make sure the one
you pick doesn't make you take any classes that you don't want.

Perhaps the best piece of advice I can give you is this:  talk to your
advisor a lot!  I didn't.  That was dumb.

Mike H.

>Hi, all!
>I'm trying to decide which college to attend, and the decision has come
>down
>to one that offers Computer Engineering as well as EE, and one that only
>offers CE. I like the one with CE only better for a number of reasons, but
>I'm not sure whether this is exactly what I want to do. As the university
>explains it, CE majors "develop systems containing both hardware and
>software for embedded computer systems and real-time applications."
>I'm mostly interested in embedded systems devel., but on the
>microcontroller
>level rather than on the "embedded computer" level. I'd like to do both
>hardware and software design, not just coding. If anything, I'd rather
>place
>an emphasis on the hardware side. As many of you are PIC professionals, I
>thought I'd pose the question to you... Should I go for a EE or CE to be
>qualified to work on embedded systems?
>
>Thanks for your opinions!
>
>- Robert
>
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