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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Grey Wolf on July 17, 2003, 08:02:35 pm

Title: CompE, ECE, and CSE: What's the difference?
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 17, 2003, 08:02:35 pm

Does anyone here know what is the actual difference between Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer and Systems Engineering? I've been trying to figure it out and all I've been able to find seems to contradict itself.

Title: CompE, ECE, and CSE: What's the difference?
Post by: Grey Wolf on July 18, 2003, 01:16:55 pm

No one knows?

Title: CompE, ECE, and CSE: What's the difference?
Post by: aldo_14 on July 19, 2003, 05:32:39 am

What level - uni?

ECE sounds like CES (Computer & Electrical Engineering) at my uni - covers primarily the hardware aspects, and any programming is really lower level stuff like C or assembler.

Computer engineering sound a bit like my course (Computer Science - CS) which is generalised and covers a fairly wide wide scope of topics starting off with an overview in the first year or 2, then moving into more specific stuff (i.e. this year I covered stuff like Graphics - basic - theory, Compilers, Software correctness using algebraic spec, Communications technology, interface design...etc)

CSE sounds a bit like Software engineering is where I am - basically, at Strathclyde SE students take the same classes as CS for the first 3 years, then spend a year on compulsary work placement (which affects their project in 4th year).  They also have compulsary classes to take in 4th year, whereas Cs students have free reign.

A lot of classes will be shared between the 3 though, i reckon - why they may appear to be very similar (because they partially overlap)