• Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Computer Engineering is hardware engineering for Computers, with some programming. It’s a child of Electrical Engineering, just like Electrical Engineering is sort of a child of Mechanical Engineering.

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      9 months ago

      And at what point in Computer Engineering do you require a fundamental understanding of Physics like every other Engineering field?

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        9 months ago

        The part where you have to fundamentally understand how hardware actually works, ie how transistors, integrated circuits, and logic gates actually work on a physical level.

        You’re thinking of Software Engineering, and even then you’d still be off.

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        9 months ago

        The point where I was using my master’s in computer engineering to design physical chips? You know, using my fundamental understanding of electricity, magnetism, and the physics that come along with it.