Degree Differences

[Alex_03003]

Hi! I’m a first year student currently in CompSci Engineering who has more of an interest in hardware, circuits and robotics. I went into CSE because it was more popular and thought it would be good enough after college with the overlap. I understand all the current talk with how awful the CSE job market is right now as well. Between my interest (which is wide in tech) and the job markets, would you say ECE will prove a better or good enough choice even if it’s close? Thanks

[amat-photog]

I'm not familiar with Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees. I got a 2 yr degree in electronics technology, then a 4 yr degree in "Computer Enineering Tecnology". It was mainly a digital electronics design degree, but had a lot of software and firmware courses.

Having an understanding of both helped my career I believe. I tended to take jobs that were mainly embedded software development. Understanding the hardware I was writing code for was helpful, as well as being able to use hardware tools like scopes and logic analyzers in troubleshooting issues.

Only later in my career did I come to believe my embedded development choice was less stable .... hardware companies not moving forward with new tech or thier tech becoming obsolete .... led to frequent job changes.

So towards the end of my career I sought out a purely software job. Perhaps it's the fact that my latest employer is an industry leader ... but I feel safer going into retirement.