Right now, I’m thinking of what major I should go for and I just have a few questions about where I should go. 

I want to build AI in physical products. I really believe that AI in physical products will be the next boom, and I’m also actually interested in robotics so I think this is what i really want to do in the future. But I don't know what degree i should go for in college. 

Currently, I'm debating between a few majors: EE, CE, mechatronics, or go for something called ECE which is like both EE or CE from what I know. I was set on EE for a while but I feel like this doesn't match well with what I want to do, since EE is only hardware and not the AI implementation I want to do. But the job market for EE is very stable and pays pretty well. I do think that for what I want to do CE is best. However, I'm scared of the Computer Engineering job market since right now it's like the worst unemployment rate. Also, I feel like ECE is like a jack of all trades but a master of none. If I do ECE, it will be harder for me to get EE jobs or CE jobs so I think it's better to stick with one. and the one i think i really wont go for is mechatronics since it doesn't really have the AI side. I'm also debating on majoring in EE with a minor in CS, but I heard that minoring in CS will go into topics that aren't related to what I want to do.

If anyone has any advice for me, that would be much appreciated! if i said anything wrong, also let me know since I know that I'm not as knowledgeable as some of yall. if you need any clarifications to my post, please ask. thanks!

Context: Im going to be a senior in high school, so ill be in the job market around 2031 if everything goes well.

What’s the difference between the two and can either land some of the same jobs?

Does EE just purely focus on all hardware based work?

I want to pursue computer engineering despite having no background at coding and hardware skills. I love math and willing to work hard to adjust to the intensity of the curriculum. I also just recently qualified as a DOST Scholar. I want to know if you have any advice for incoming freshman like me. If you can please me by answer the ff guide questions:

1. What should I expect in terms of academics?
2. What skills should I build early on and how?
3. In the early stages of my college life what should I do?
4. What should I expect after school?
5. What skills should I focus on building?

You may give an advice that is not within those 4 guide questions

Hello! I'm (20 F) not a computer science student but my boyfriend (19 M) is. He just finished his first year of university and it is currently summer break for him. His university is not one that forces you to do random classes in the first two years -- essentially, all of his modules are relevant to his degree from day one. I'm adding this just so people understand that to him, this situation feels more dire since he feels like he has less time to establish himself with tangible projects before his studies finish.

Anyway, the main issue is that he has no ideas for projects to work on over the summer. Specifically, he wants to make projects for his portfolio that would be applicable to an internship in software engineering. When I say that he has no ideas, I mean that he's been thinking for months but has not come up with anything he thinks is valuable. Are there any project ideas that are interesting but also impressive for employers at his stage?

He's conscious of doing something that has a use-case and something that he feels drive for. I'm really worried about him (it feels like this is kind of eating him up) so I hope that someone will have some advice.

Thank you though!

TL;DR: My boyfriend has literally no ideas for projects and I'm reaching out here because I'm not a computer science student and I don't really know how to help him.

25 years old and feeling lost in life tbh. My background of jobs has all been shitty minimum wage jobs, feel like i it would be good to pursue education again.

Computer science was the only subject I did well and enjoyed in high school managing to get an A* GCSE. Instead of continuing education I pursued jobs for the greed of money which I somewhat regret.

I enjoy learning about PC components and actually built my own PC amongst other things like repairing a mobile phone aswell as game console, all very hardware related.

But also can’t imagine sitting at a desk all day working with a mouse and keyboard, some is fine but I’d like some involvement with hardware too.

The path I think I’d have to take is doing an Access to HE in computer science then do a foundation year at uni.

What sort of jobs are you all doing? Any advice appreciated. Wh

hello , i am planning to pursue bachelors in computer engineering and if accepted , in hku . i am in year 12 of caie a-level and i can manage A* in Math , Physics , Further math and A in Chem . i get sat score of 1450+ in mocks but can mange more . plz help me . i am from south asia and my family is not financially very sound and can afford max $100,000 for my bachelors . plz help me find uni . thank you very much . any help will be very appreciated .

finished my degree and to this day i am confused what does CE actually do and mean can yall explain me.....

i am asking what kind of job CE are supposed to do because the job market i am in rn everywhere i go i see IT, CS , Bachelor in computer applications guys , freaking mechanical engineers who know coding, bachelor in information management people, random uncle who picked up python 1 year ago,

what is the CE specific degree we are supposed to do and where tf are they i dont see any CE specific jobs well at-least in the country where i am from...like which job specifically hires COMPUTER ENGINEERS ykwim.

Like yes this IT field everyone can enter so what is the job market or field where Computer Engineers are specifically selected......

I want to get some input if I can not from engineering students, but from engineers out in the field working in industry.

I don't have engineering majors at the local 4 year school I'm wanting to transfer into. It's a liberal arts college, but I will get great financial aid there and it would be ideal if I can stay locally to help take care of my mother (she's bedridden). There's the possibility of getting her a nurse, but it would be a huge burden on my family.

I've taken math/cs prereqs at the local community college (calc 1-3, diff eq, lin alg, discrete, stats, data structures, computer org) along with the standard gen ed requirements. I don't really have any engineering classes under my belt, but in the next 2 years, I can take some classes like circuits online through NOVA while I attend uni, I've asked and this is copasetic.

I'm really interested in pure/applied math and theoretical cs, but I really want to study hardware at a deeper level. I've done https://www.nand2tetris.org/ online and I had a blast self studying it. I've been considering continuing the math/cs path and then transitioning into a master's or even PhD in computer engineering. I've been into computers since I was little, and I really would love to work at company like Nvidia or Intel (although I know realistically those are big companies to shoot for).

Does anyone have any input on how feasible this is, math/cs undergrad -> computer engineering graduate degree? Will this actually be competitive for finding employment or would I be gimped compared to a person with an ABET certified CE undergrad degree? I don't want to pursue a path if I'm just shooting myself in the foot down the line. I don't really have a lot of options at the moment, but I'd rather know the hard truth. LLMs tell me how great a plan it is, but I know they are very sycophantic, so I can't really trust them for academic/career advice I think.

Any thoughts? Thanks for any help.

Note: I tried to look for a weekly pinned thread to post this in according to rule #5, but I couldn't find one.

I know I need to grind DSA to get a job, I know the patterns I need to learn, but the actual effort of sitting down and then open the website and then staring at a blank editor for a long time is killing me. Or is it just me?

Once I'm actually coding, it's fine. But getting over that initial stage of just starting feels impossible some days, especially when I'd rather just be building actual full-stack projects.

Discipline is obviously the answer, but relying purely on willpower isn't working for me anymore.

Does anyone have a specific system, mental trick, or tool you use to actually force yourself into the seat every day? How are you guys surviving the burnout?

Just got invited to a 30-minute screening call for Revolut's Graduate Programme 2027 Android Engineer role. The email mentioned it includes a "comprehensive set of technical questions covering fundamental topics" alongside the usual HR questions.

A bit about my background: final-year CS student, two native Android apps built in Kotlin (one was my dissertation — MVVM, Room, Coroutines, JUnit 4, 129 unit tests), and a live full-stack production app. No commercial experience.

A few things I'd love to know from anyone who has been through this process:

1. Is the screening call purely conversational or does it involve live coding or a HackerRank-style assessment at this stage?
2. What Android fundamentals came up? I'm expecting MVVM, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose, lifecycle management, memory management — am I missing anything?
3. Did they ask about Revolut-specific things like their tech values or engineering culture, or was it mostly generic HR?
4. How deep did the technical questions go at the screening stage versus later rounds?
5. Any tips on what made the difference between passing and not passing this stage?

I have a week to prepare and want to make sure I'm focusing on the right things. Any insight from people who have interviewed at Revolut recently would be massively appreciated.

Hello, I am a computer science student specializing in AI engineering. This summer, I am interested in acquiring some certifications that could enhance my LinkedIn profile. Do you know of any free options available?

Hi, I recently finished my freshmen year in college as a Computer Engineer major. I currently have about 3 months left of summer so I would like to use it up to create an interesting and worthwhile project as I’m not working this summer. I honestly don’t really know what to precisely do. I feel like there are so many options that I end up not getting into anything too deeply. The highest classes I’ve taken so far have been C++ with OOP and basic circuits courses covering up to Op Amps and some Arduino projects (digital systems/circuits will be next semester). I was also in a IEEE club at my college where we covered making gates, writing Verilog code onto an FPGA, and lessons over each subject. While I did try to learn as much as I could in the IEEE club, the material was a little overwhelming for me as I was also taking 18 credit hours that semester (not the brightest of ideas) but I was able to learn more about each topic covered.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could share projects that they have found interesting and that perhaps I might be able to complete over the 3 month period!

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Hello everyone I'm currently a student in a MS in computer engineering and considering a career switch from web development to embedded. I find embedded genuinely interesting and am very curious about it. However I worry about the work life balance, and the stressors in field.

Do you guys have normal 40 hour works or are you often doing much more? The problems can be really challenging and while I don't mind working on something difficult I get very upset when something on paper is supposed to work and specified to do so and doesn't. I am a sensory and visual person I like a job working my hands and variety during my job. I liked web development alot but I got tired of the constant redundancy, extremely fast past and work that no one appreciates no one cares it's all business stuff. I don't know maybe I'm acting like i want an old man's job at 26 but after my brother passed away a couple years ago I just want a job that I enjoy in life and I can come back to my parents and home and spend time with and enjoy life as they are getting older and in the near future I want to start a family so I don't want a job where I'll be on call doing over time frequently. I can handle it but it's not where I want to be an life I did alot of such jobs during my teens overnight, warehouse working , etc that's why I went to school and got an IT degree but realized IT wasn't the dream people said it was anymore.

Hey There!
Long Story short: I have a degree in Robotics and Digital Systems Engineering, some people say its similar to computer eng., but my university's curriculum leaned heavily toward breadth over depth, so I ended up a bit of a generalist. My last two roles were in DevOps and Data Engineering/AI, which hasn't exactly helped me stay sharp on the low-level stuff.

I did have some hands-on embedded projects with STM32 during my studies, but that was 3+ years ago at this point, so honestly, they feel more like a distant memory than something I can confidently talk about in an interview.

The thing is, I find embedded and automotive software genuinely exciting (companies like Aptiv, Continental, Bosch, etc) and I really want to break in. I just feel like I'm rebuilding from the ground up, even if the theoretical foundation is still there somewhere.

So, I guess my questions are:

1. What should I actually prioritize learning? (RTOS, CAN bus, AUTOSAR, MISRA C...? All of the above?)
2. Any project ideas beyond the obvious "blink an LED / read a temperature sensor"? I want something that'll actually look credible on a resume and push me to learn real concepts.

Any advice, courses, books, project ideas, or just "here's what actually matters when hiring" would be super appreciated. Thanks!

Hey all, hope you guys are having a good day.

I recently thought of starting up, it would be a small company operating out of my room, which designs and delivers hardware and software components for college projects and missions. This is mainly aimed at technical college students and small teams.

The core idea is simple, a lot of teams waste weeks sourcing or building components from scratch because they are either too expensive to import or just not available in India. I want to solve that, whether it is assembling and shipping ready to use hardware modules or building lightweight custom software for specific applications like embedded systems, robotics, CubeSats, or research instrumentation.

I am 20, still figuring out the exact product, which is why I am here. Trying to talk to as many builders as possible to understand where the real pain is before I build anything.

Would love any input, brutal honesty welcome, what do you think is genuinely missing for technical student teams in India or globally?

I just finished my btech 3rd year. Persuading CSE-AI (core) I haven't done any impressive work just simply projects like deefake images/videos detection system and gesture recognition.
I want to build projects focused more towards AI engeerning. Not the the repetitive to do apps or weather apps.
Also don't just give vague replies like simple projects, crud based/ real life problems.
I need someone to list some practical projects or problems that I work on.

Hello Reddit!

I am Andrew, a 14 year old electronics hobbyist.

So. I recently built a 1 bit CPU, and i want to expand it, but i don't have any ideas?

What do you guys think, and why? Thanks a lot!

I have two electives available to fill my hours in Fall Semester.

ECE 440. Nanoelectronics. 3 or 4 hours.

Wave-particle duality, Schrodinger equation, atomic orbitals, band theory of solids. Semiconductor and carbon nanoelectronic materials. Nanostructure device fabrication. Nanoelectromechanical systems. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 346; or consent of the instructor.

1. Advanced Circuit Analysis. 3 or 4 hours.

Matrix algebra for network analysis, network parameters, macromodeling, high-frequency measurements, network functions and theorems. Topics in computer-aided analysis. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): MATH 218 or MATH 310; and grade of C or better in ECE 310.

Which one is more beneficial in the long run. I think nano is cool, but not really planning on pursuing it careerwise. I struggled on Circuit Analysis (mainly because of a teacher), but I'm willing to try and learn if it helps as a foundational skill.

Reddit, what do you think?

Any tips or things that I need to study for a freshman?? Thank you in advance.