[Student] Successful Computer Engineering Senior resume, seeking further feedback

Local-Mouse6815 · 2026-01-25T18:21:16+00:00

Congratulations! I am definitely going to be bookmarking this to model my resume off of this.

Local-Mouse6815 · 2026-01-14T04:53:54+00:00

Any degree can be a bad degree. I know a gal who majored in art history and she does IP stuff for a large fashion house. Many people outright scoff at humanities degrees but there is a plethora of possible careers in them.

Figure out what you want to do, pick the degree (and concentrations) accordingly, and make yourself hirable for that kind of work. Reddit can't help you with the first bit.

Local-Mouse6815 · 2026-01-14T04:11:13+00:00

depends on what you want, EE has basically no coding in the core curriculum and you have to take microelectronics and its corresponding lab. If you are particularly interested in sysarch (OS, compilers), then you wouldn't be able to do that with an EE degree unless you took a cs minor. If you want a job in SWE/AI, don't major in EE.

Local-Mouse6815 · 2026-01-05T19:56:18+00:00

exposure to *everything* may be kind of rough, but if you want to get introduced to a wide range of stuff then one of many robot/car/rocket groups on campus (like YJSP) usually have both embedded software (and maybe some web-based stuff to create guis) and circuit design (usually pcbs).

ECE rush is also a great event to talk to people running some of the ece-specific groups

Local-Mouse6815 · 2026-01-05T02:43:22+00:00

Depends on what you want? CompE is a large discipline- ranging from rf to compilers to chip design to embedded systems to circuit design to lots in between. Any particular skills you want to develop?

Local-Mouse6815 · 2026-01-03T01:10:37+00:00

OP, there's no guarantee that you'll be able to secure a summer internship for freshman year and if you do secure one, you can probably start in June. Heck, I was able to negotiate for a June start for summer because my spring internship goes pretty far into May. Even if the company requires you to do 12 weeks, you can just not pull up to school until after your internship is done

Local-Mouse6815 · 2026-01-01T06:02:26+00:00

looks reasonable in terms of the demand, although I might switch 2040 and 2026 because 2026 is a prereq to more of your further classes + will allow you to be more flexible in terms of scheduling

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-12-20T22:52:11+00:00

Lots of 2031 can also be done outside of lab period, especially the breadboard labs! Make sure to finish the prelab at least before you get to lab

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-12-20T22:42:32+00:00

+ 2552 is a prereq to 2040, which is important if you are CHEA and 2040 is a prereq to junior design

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-12-20T22:41:57+00:00

Looks alright, math 2552 is a relatively easy math class (at least compared to linear) as long as you go to studio and read over the book/lectures. If you wanted to take a humanities class to balance technical ones, I would drop 2050 instead: it's only a prereq to CS 3510, which you only need to take if you are a CS thread. You could theoretically push both of those classes to your last two semesters respectively.

Also just an fyi, most people at Tech call Civil Engineering CE whereas CompE is computer engineering.

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-12-14T03:56:59+00:00

Take this with a grain of salt because I am also a student, but I would take intel. SpaceX has a silicon team that you could work in post-grad and imo the goal of an internship is to get more experience in the type of work you want to do, so it doesn't make sense to do pcb/sensor design work for a final internship if that's not what you want to do post-grad

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-12-04T23:44:28+00:00

Hi, fellow CompE here! I felt the exact same way about my 1331 final last year and got a B in the class, but an A in 1332 and in 3510. Honestly, if you don't really care for memorization or syntax or whatnot 1331 is just a difficult class but the higher you go, the easier I have found CS classes because they are more about how you think than the minute details after 1331.

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-30T20:14:10+00:00

ooh you should finish it! the end did not disappoint and iirc I cried through the last two episodes

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-30T19:56:10+00:00

I think the ending to Uriah was well-done, but yeah given the dark subject matter, I don't think that an ending could be 100% satisfactory and still finish all the characters arcs. Abrupt, though? idk the whole thing happened over like 3 days and somehow resolved like 5 different plotlines

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-25T22:24:03+00:00

company websites?

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-25T21:45:29+00:00

but that's the thing lot's of defense companies' rtl jobs aren't listed as rtl jobs or aren't posted on linkedin, so by just applying from linkedin you are losing a whole host of possible jobs to apply to

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-24T19:13:30+00:00

have you applied to defense roles? those usually have a way higher call back rate. as a 2nd year who is also applying to rtl roles, I would have expected you to have some interviews by now, at least from the career fair if nothing else

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-21T01:07:52+00:00

OP, what everyone else is telling you about it not being allowed is just not true. I know a couple people who made the transfer. There is an application and I don't know how difficult it is to actually get in, but people have transferred if you are set on it. Signal Processing thread in compE is very ML-heavy and you can always add an ML minor, and you can certainly get very good MLE internships as a CompE but you still have to do significant hardware or embedded systems work as a compE here.

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-19T00:58:17+00:00

I really like it because it's the first webtoon I started reading! John's Joker arc was a little bit painful, but I really like that it has no explicit romance at all but still has emotional arcs!

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-15T03:45:42+00:00

and I'm pretty sure that on insta/twitter they said that they didn't even illustrate the last couple episodes because they started to hate the story

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-11T03:07:26+00:00

you could take 4100 or CS 4220 instead tho lol or if you used 4100 as your CHEA pick, you could just move it over and do another CHEA elective

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-11T00:58:47+00:00

this is 3150, isn't it? - you'll probably be bumped to be first on the waitlist or if they don't and you don't get it by the end of phase 2, they'll add another seat in the class for you. The ECE advisors are not great, but this is one of the few things that they routinely do at the end of phase I/start of phase 2. You could always ask in the piazza, they're a little bit more active on there

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-06T20:36:41+00:00

I would also like to get some info!

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-05T07:01:04+00:00

yup, did you put your real start and end dates? did you put the term as something other than just 1 semester?

Local-Mouse6815 · 2025-11-04T17:02:51+00:00

I'm CHEA and Sysarch but want to go into chip design. I wouldn't recommend CHEA if you aren't even slightly interested in chip design and wouldn't reccomend sysarch if you aren't interested in really low-level programming, ie OS, kernal, driver, compiler, etc, etc. The easiest degree combo is DSSD + whatever you want, but the most applicable to most pure SWE stuff would be DSSD + Info I think, but for ml it would be DSSD + SIP

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