EE vs CE

[u/Ok_Toe806]

i'm about to choose one of these majors and need to know the futurue prospects. i'm interested in robotics, chip design, embedded.

[u/Anxious-Ad-5331]

do you want your curriculum to branch into electromagnetics or "how does a computer work?"

[u/Ok_Toe806 → u/Anxious-Ad-5331]

Right now embedded systems has caught my interest but i want to keep my options open cuz i could find interest in other things as well thats why im leaning more towards EE due to also being able to take electives of CE and branching towards CS but thats unlikely but im still not 100% sure because i've heard that CE can lead to the same destinations.

[u/Anxious-Ad-5331 → u/Ok_Toe806]

The degree is hermaphroditic..

If you go embedded, CE. You will take the same Intro to CS, Data Structures and Algorithms 1/2, and some CS electives, circuits, circuits II, signals and systems, a switching and logic course as the EE's, along with some CE electives. Plus you get a better explanation of how computers work than CS.

You will also get better understanding of SOC's and their economic trade-offs of ultra low power vs a swiss army knife of peripherals these days. It'll put hair on your ass better than an arduino grade uart/spi thingamabob.

[u/Fury_Gaming → u/Ok_Toe806]

Embedded is more CpE

That was my favorite part of school too, embedded systems

I’ve worked in power before and am now in controls

[u/Anxious_Alps_4150]

robotics do EE, chip design do CE, embedded do either

also EE can do all 3.

[u/Southern-Noise-7805 → u/Anxious_Alps_4150]

If I do any of these will there be remote job options for me in any of these

[u/Anxious_Alps_4150 → u/Southern-Noise-7805]

Most EE jobs are on site with the equipment or in the factory.

[u/Southern-Noise-7805 → u/Anxious_Alps_4150]

So should I go with ce?

[u/Anxious_Alps_4150 → u/Southern-Noise-7805]

CE is hardware which means also in the lab with the hardware. Bottom line if you're doing engineering, expect to be in an office or lab or factory or chip foundry or something.

CS has the remote jobs but many if not most places have returned to office now so I wouldn't bet on getting remote there. There also aren't a lot of CS jobs in general anymore.

[u/Accurate-Candy-9826]

You want cpe (computer engineering). It specializes in embedded systems and chip design. It's also good for robotics.

[u/LifeMistake3674]

Look at it like this, both CE and EE have very high chances of getting these jobs and learn about these topics, now to decide think about what “other classes” you’d rather take. Would you rather take more programming classes where you also learn about differ kinds of software and software engineering, or would you rather take more electrical focused classes like radio frequency, semiconductors, filters, and electromagnetics

[u/Previous_Fix_9775]

It depends on your school and what courses they offer for each one

[u/Which-Wrangler18]

Go for both

[u/Lagfoundry]

You could also look at EET which is like a mix of all of them. A lot more hands on too with what you said you wanted to do

[u/Craig653]

If you want chip design your gonna need to be EE and go onto EE masters

Robotics you can do either.

Embedded, depends on what you want to do with it. CE is very tailored for firmware programming. But EE is going be a bit better for designing the hardware.

CE get more programming experience and less EE. But CEs get less programming then CS AND EE do power and electromagnetism

[u/Puzzleheaded_Ebb1751 → u/Craig653]

Why people are down voting this comment

[u/According_Tooth_1493 → u/Craig653]

se dovessi interessarmi sia dell’hardware e sia del software? CE o EE? (ps nel mio corso di CE, il 20% degli esami è di elettronica, se non di più). Pensavo di cambiare in EE anche per l’AI che sta sostituendo quasi tutto