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0culus:

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--- Quote from: hamster_nz on April 04, 2019, 06:19:41 am ---Going by the name, there seems to be 50% overlap...
Why do you ask?

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Because I wanna know the difference between them.

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Well you have to read all the course class descriptions to see the difference. Every university is different and every country is different.
You have to at least tell us the university name if you want any opinion that's worth anything.
But as a general rule, electronics engineering is a subset of the more general electrical engineering course. Computer engineering may or may not be under the electrical engineering department and will be much more heavily software focused and may or may not include all the core basic physics/maths stuff that electrical and electronics will have.

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From what I've seen, CE students will often take computer science-y courses in lieu of certain stuff EE students take. For example: http://www.ece.unm.edu/undergraduate/programs.html, in the spring semester of junior year, CE students are taking data structures and algorithms + a technical elective while EE students take Electronics II and EM fields.

iMo:
There is such saying - "There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers".. :)

Electrical Eng. is a broader term, the Electronics Eng. is a subset of it, afaik.

Electrical Eng. may also deal with Materials used in EE, High Voltage Power (ie your national grid) distribution systems, Power plants technology, Electro-Mechanical systems, Metrology, Measurement systems, sometimes with Robotics, Automation, etc.

Electronics Eng. is also rather more general term - it, for example, covers Microelectronics, Optoelectronics, Radioelectronics, Bioelectronics, etc.

All above are more-less dealing with topics related to materials/components/hardware design.

Computer Engineering is usually a mix of Electronics and Informatics, with _much_ higher emphasis on "Informatics" topics, however. Therefore "software engineering" oriented.

There are universities where the "Computer Engineering" and/or "Informatics" split from more traditional "Electrical Engineering" and became independent few decades back.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: imo on April 04, 2019, 08:26:25 am ---There is such saying - "There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers".. :)

Electrical Eng. is a broader term, the Electronics Eng. is a subset of it, afaik.

Electrical Eng. may also deal with Materials used in EE, High Voltage Power (ie your national grid) distribution systems, Power plants technology, Electro-Mechanical systems, Metrology, Measurement systems, sometimes with Robotics, Automation, etc.

Electronics Eng. is also rather more general term - it, for example, covers Microelectronics, Optoelectronics, Radioelectronics, Bioelectronics, etc.

All above are more-less dealing with topics related to materials/components/hardware design.

Computer Engineering is usually a mix of Electronics and Informatics, with _much_ higher emphasis on "Informatics" topics, however. Therefore "software engineering" oriented.

There are universities where the "Computer Engineering" and/or "Informatics" split from more traditional "Electrical Engineering" and became independent few decades back.

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Most, but not all, of the above is misleading to the point of being wrong.

Berni:
Yeah if its for a university program the thing can be quite specific for a given school. Some might overlap 80% some might overlap almost nothing.

Electronics engineering is where you get to the components that make up electronic devices. This is where you learn about transistors and chips. It might include some power electronics/transmission from Electrical Engineering, and it might include things like C or assembler programing from Computer Engineering (This is actually quite likely due to microcontrollers)

Electrical engineering is electricity on a higher level. Here you learn about electrical distribution networks, putting together industrial modules such as PLCs, running big motors and generators for industrial use etc. This essentially makes you a more sophisticated version of an electrician(or spaky as you aussies call them.)

Computer engineering can vary the most. This could be training you to be an an IT guy that can set up large corporate networks, maintain servers, service computers and other IT work. Or it could go the other way where you are taught the deep details of programing in various languages, writing and porting linux drivers or even programming microcontrolers and other embedded systems, in this direction they are usually also taught a bit of electronics and sometimes given a soldering iron a few times, but don't expect to learn how to practically use transistors.


When choosing don't look at the apparent difficulty of the program. All of them are difficult in a different way. Chose by what you would want to do. Is it typing code on a keyboard, soldering stuff at a workbench, or installing massive industrial equipment at a factory.

42Bits:
--Electrical Engineering (Main Degree)
------ Electronics Engineering (Discipline of Main Degree)
------------- Computer Engineering (Sub-field of Discipline)

What I mean above ^ is that more you move down the list it get more specialised in your degree.
So, that are all related by the main degree of somewhat ?

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