Computer Engineering colleges in Silicon Valley

kyledavid80
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:34:17 +0000

TooRichForAid:

“There is no such college that teaches computers, you mean CS”

I don’t quite understand you. Clarify?

“any school that’s good with engineering usually good with CS”

I wouldn’t say “usually,” rather “often,” but certainly not always. CPSLO isn’t known for its computer science, and I doubt that it’s a feeder school for top employers in computers (though I could be wrong). Other schools such as Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, MIT, and Stanford are known for both engineering and computer science. It is indeed a polytechnic university, though I still don’t think its compsci department is one of the top ones.

“most kids from the Bay Area attend Cal Poly SLO because it’s closer to them, about 1-2 hours away”

I don’t know what San Luis Obispo you’re talking about, but the one I’m referring to is in southern California (my town is actually a little farther north and is considered to be in so Cal). According to mapquest, San Jose to SLO is a three-hour drive (almost 200 miles); from San Francisco, almost four hours.

http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&ct=NA&rsres=1&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&2ffi=&2l=&2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&1pn=&1a=&1c=San+Jose&1s=CA&1z=&2pn=&2a=&2c=San+Luis+Obispo&2s=CA&2z=&r=f
http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&ct=NA&rsres=1&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&2ffi=&2l=&2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&1pn=&1a=&1c=San+Francisco&1s=CA&1z=&2pn=&2a=&2c=San+Luis+Obispo&2s=CA&2z=&r=f

I wouldn’t say “most” kids from the Bay Area go to CPSLO; maybe some, but not most, and it’s certainly not closer than Santa Clara, etc. My area is a definite feeder area; tons go to the school, and I’m willing to bet that the majority of the students are from southern California.

Anyway, my main point is that the school shouldn’t be included in this discussion as it isn’t in Silicon Valley, which is defined as follows:



Geographically, “Silicon Valley” encompasses the northern part of Santa Clara Valley and adjacent communities in the southern parts of the San Francisco Peninsula and East Bay. It now reaches approximately from San Mateo (on the Peninsula) and the Fremont/Newark area in the East Bay down through San Jose, centered roughly on Sunnyvale.