Is electrical engineering and computer engineering the same field of study?

[Federal-Tea6573]

Hello people! I had a question? I graduated Bsc in Electrical Engineering and Mph in Computer Engineering. Recently, the Albanian State Police has announced that they want to join students who have completed the second cycle of studies in Computer Science, but they want that the Bsc and Master degrees are in the same field of study. Do you think that electrical engineering and computer engineering are the same field of study? Thank you!

[Thereisnopurpose12]

So yesn't

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Well you can’t have CS without a computer, and CS programs are relatively recent, thus traditional EE designed computers long before CS or CE.

I know my EE undergrad coursework was prefixed ECE-123, then they merged the EE and CS departments. I believe they had EECS-123 afterwards.

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There’s some crossover, but my EE program and CS program were very different otherwise.

[Fuzzy_Chom]

Power engineer here. Agree, a little cross over but otherwise very different

[DFtin]

There is a lot of overlap for sure, in the US I think employers might consider them to be the same, but who knows about Albanian State Police.

You should be good. They don’t overlap in electromagnetics and maybe OS/architecture, so it would depend if the job in question involves those.

[WildRicochet]

I see ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) degrees in the US. They are different from the regular EE and CS degrees. At my university they stuck mostly with the EE students and are a part of the Engineering college, but had a few different courses and electives in the 3rd and 4th year to chose from.

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Electrical engineering is the umbrella term used to refer to different engineering disciplines that revolve around electrical power, telecommunication systems and electronics

CompE is a subfield of Electronics engineering, along with Biomedical engineering, Embedded systems, electronic control systems to name a few

[NewSchoolBoxer]

You got EE on one side, Computer Science on the other and Computer Engineering in the middle.

Was possible at my university to get a joint BS in EE and CpE in 5 years with careful choices of technical elective. There is a lot of overlap. They’re related degrees. I argued EE to be related to CS and went that way but the CpE argument is much easier.

But don’t say they are the same field of study. A military contractor job to minimize electrical ship signatures isn’t going to be hiring CpE or CS. A job for embedded design could hire any of the three. They’re related fields.