<p>What’s the difference? At Stony Brook University, I’ve noticed the CS major is known as CSE, and the “E” happens to represent Engineering.</p>
<p>How is Stony Brook’s program:
<a href=“http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/files/undergrad/cseFall2011req.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/files/undergrad/cseFall2011req.pdf</a></p>
<p>any different than Queens College’s program.
<a href=“http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/undergrad/BS2005.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cs.qc.cuny.edu/undergrad/BS2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>Why is it called CS, and CSE at Stony? Does that mean Stony CSE grads can consider themselves to be Engineers?</p>
<p>Please participate, thanks.</p>
<p>(I am completely aware that Stony Brook’s CS program is far, far, superior than of Queens Colleges, or any CUNY school, my main question is about the “CSE” title.</p>
<p>Just a title. Quite a few schools that offer computer science in the College of Engineering name the major “Computer Science & Engineering”.</p>
<p>Also, your title given by your employer varies by employer. You can have an engineering degree, do engineering work but your employer does not give you a title with “engineer” in the name. Some employers will give you a more broad name for a title and some employers will give you a detailed title.</p>
<p>Example: A database architect can be a type of software engineer. Some employers my give you the title of software engineer. Some will give you the title of database architect. It doesn’t matter as long as the work experience and/or responsibilities are the same.</p>
<p>So, suppose I graduate with this Computer Science and Engineering degree – would I have the right to consider myself an engineer? For instance, could I say I’m an engineer with a CSE degree? For what it’s worth, Stony’s CS program is CSAB accredited, and Google along with other companies could be seen at the CS building regularly.</p>
<p>You are an engineer if you are doing engineering work. To be honest, you can call yourself anything you want. Computer SCIENCE, math and physics major are hired as software ENGINEERS all the time.</p>
<p>Yours truly is a software engineer for 8 or 9 years with a math degree (before my M.S. Engineering). I never called myself a mathematician since I never worked as one.</p>
<p>I see – I want to become a database guy just like you. The aforementioned was a secret I guess. Any courses from the SBU site that you recommend I take to be on the right path? I’m done with the calc,physics and gen ed requirements. I also have the CS pre-reqs for about any elective I want. I just need to properly choose my classes. I was thinking of doing an information assurance specialization, along with gaming development just to keep my options open – should there be downturn in the field. I look forward to your response. I’m sure you know that you are of great help. :)</p>
<p>You may want to take the any I.A.-related courses and a database course for starters. Taking some official training in either Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle would definitely help. Currently, I have left the SQL Server/Oracle area to handle “big data” and cloud-computing but the SQL Server/Oracle work (and positions created with them) is not going anywhere anytime soon.</p>
<p>Computer Science and Engineering is generally short hand for Computer Science and Computer Engineering – and it’s a department name not a degree name. Your first link was for a Computer Science degree at the CSE department for example. It’s not a computer science and engineering degree…it’s just one. the department offers a computer engineering degree as well. Or you can do both (like as a double major).</p>