• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Uh… no? Well, maybe for the guy in the picture because they’re clearly dumb, but “computer engineer” sounds more like chip design and circuit layout than even software engineering, let alone basic IT work…

      Basic IT work is wholly and completely different than any kind of computer-related engineering.

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        11 months ago

        As a computer engineer who works with FPGAs, thank you. I can’t tell you how many times someone comes to me with a CS question and I’m like, I dunno! Ask a CS person! I hardly know Python. [Admittedly, I really should learn.]

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        Computer engineering is precisely the crossover between EE and CS. In many places it is a program within the EE department.

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          Yeah circuit design was EE where I went to school. As a CS undergrad we had to take something called Computer Architecture where we learned about that stuff. But it was just one class, so pretty general coverage. Some CS grad stuff touches on it too (like networking.)

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        11 months ago

        You mixed that up, computer engineers know that the earth is flat, it’s geologists who know about the tiny people making all our electronics work

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      Sometimes, but it is a real engineering discipline. It’s a hybrid of electrical engineering and computer science