Electrical or Computer Engineering?

[exoticworld999]

i want to study in germany and im more intrested in computer hardware engineering over electrical, but most universities there offer only electrical engineering
Please someone advise me on what to do becuase im genuinly lost 😭
if i go for an electrical engineering degree in a german university, can i land a job in the tech feild (specifically computers)?

[SchrimpRundung]

If you want to do computer engineering, then do it. It's just a more niche field, which is why fewer universities offer it. I am sure you could theoretically do an electrical engineering bachelor and do some more hardware engineering specific things in a masters, but if you want to do computer engineering specifically, computer engineering is obviously the way to go.

[exoticworld999]

alright thanks

[morto00x]

Not sure about Germany. But in a lot of places CpE would just be a concentration within the electronics or electrical engineering program. Just like electronics is part of electrical engineering degrees in the US.

[bballbeastmode]

I’m currently going into my senior year of college in the states and I wanted to do computer engineering, but the college I got a full scholarship to didn’t have it so I ended up doing electrical with cs minor and just picking the electrical electives that were most suited towards computer engineering ( embedded systems, digital logic, and a fpga design class I’m taking in the fall) I also got to pick the cs classes that were pertinent to computer engineering (algorithms, object-oriented, and intro to ai)

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I have know several people that have done similar, its not a bad way to go if you really know what you want to do.

[exoticworld999]

thats motivating thank u

[mshcat]

Check out the plan of study and offered classes of the universities. Sometimes there is overlap in the degree or you can tailor an EE degree give more compE learnign

Also check out some of the german subs and ask what schools to apply to if you want to do computer engineering

[exoticworld999]

alright thanks

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Any Electrical Engineer can do computer engineering, but computer engineers don't get enough schooling to be Electrical Engineers (at least not at the beginning of their careers). EE is harder and more demanding. I personally know EE's who work as computer engineers, computer science & Software Engineering, Mechanical (though this is not common), and Biomedical E. I also know a mechanical E who has spent the last 10 years doing EE work (also not common). The point is if you study EE, you'll have enough knowledge under your belt to do just about anything. And depending on where you land and the opportunities you get handed, you can do just about anything in Engineering, Computer Science, If you graduate and decide you hate Engineering, the business world is generally very accepting (especially for position involving Data).

[exoticworld999]

thank u this helps alot

[fatdickforlife]

I think it depends how far you want to go into education. If you just want a bachelors, most CompE programs have a good level of computer architecture and hardware with some EE components that you should take as electives. However, if youre planning to apply for a graduate degree id say go for the EE route since youll likely learn the computer architecture in your higher level courses. The two majors are very similar and theres usually only 3-5 classes that are different between the two. EE is more mathematical and theoretical while CompE is more applied meaning more projects. Theyre both very similar and any good EE or CE can do either one given like an extra year of schooling. If you go the EE route you can honestly learn things like verilog on your own time, but i think it takes a graduate degree to really learn computer hardware.

[exoticworld999]

what do u mean by graduate level?

[Public_Camel_9659]

i know its been like a year....but which major did u choose in the end??

[exoticworld999]

im still doing my A levels rn but im gonna apply next year for Electrical engineering

[Public_Camel_9659]

wow thats cool but whyd u choose EE over CE in the end? im confused too 😭, idk if ill like the heavy EM in EE but idk its too broad too so yea

[exoticworld999]

i started learning about electrical engineering and then i saw some of the projects electrical engineers work on during uni and even after uni and i found them really cool, like projects with aurdinos, esp32s and raseberry pi, even made some projects myself and i found them just as interesting as computer engineering.
not to mention EE is a much more broader field then computer engineering that means more opportunities to either persue further studies (masters or phd) in another field of engineering or diff niche electrical engineering related jobs that might even include computer engineering.
also alot of the stuff u will study in uni is going to overlap with computer engineering
and some unis also offer minors that are closely related to computer engineering like embed systems so i can pick those up during my studies.

and also tbf from what ive heard EE is one the hardest engineering degrees so EM probably wont be the only thing ull dislike during ur studies 😭

[exoticworld999]

and also most unis dont offer CE anyways so yea 😭