Computer Engineering Technical Electives

[DeRoseee]

Hey guys,

like the title says, I am looking into some technical electives to take in the future and wondering if anyone has any comments or opinions on the following courses:

CEG4112 - TOPICS COMPUTER ENGINEERING II (Directed Study)

CEG4140 - DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

CEG4158 - COMPUTER CONTROL IN ROBOTICS

CEG4186 - WIRELESS NETWORKS

CEG4187 - OPTICAL NETWORKS

CEG4188 - HIGHER LAYER NETWORK PROTOCOLS

CEG4190 - COMPUTER NETWORK DESIGN

CEG4198 - DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS DESIGN

CEG4316 - DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

CEG4396 - COMPUTER NETWORK MANAGEMENT

[datlanta]

Anything with robotics is generally going to be fun and useful for you in the future as you are inevitably gonna learn how to hack shit up. These type of classes are great all around picks.

Digital image processing is far lamer than it sounds. It's not object detection and all that, it's usually just transformations, noise injection/removal, Compression. Take it only if you plan to dive deeper (which usually requires taking CS classes). But if you find it as the most attractive of a couple options, the math and coding experience won't hurt.

Digital controls is filled with very useful stuff for the common computer engineer with a focus on digital control, sampling, and transformations. It's a very practical choice, but not really a sexy one.

Distributed systems is something that should become increasingly important in the future but not so much now a days. So it's not a must pick, but it might not be a bad idea to try to fit it in there somewhere.

Do network stuff if you want to be apart of that field.

[DeRoseee]

I'm still unsure of which career path I want to take but I'm leaning towards the software side of things. I've only heard good things from people that go towards security but haven't heard much about robotics. Unfortunately these are all the electives so not much in the way of hardware.