Engineering Colleges Like Duke

ucbalumnus
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:56:39 +0000

RacinReaver:

It’s probably similar to EECS or ECE departments out there.



In the case of Berkeley, the EECS department offers three options:

EECS - ECE: ABET accredited for electrical engineering and computer engineering.
EECS - CSE: ABET accredited for computer science and computer engineering.
CS (Letters and Science): Not ABET accredited.

Regarding “lumpers” versus “splitters” in general, it appears that many “lumper” cases involve at least one subject which is too small at the given school to have its department (often, something like aerospace, naval architecture, materials, or nuclear is lumped into something else like mechanical – though not all mechanical engineering departments have courses or faculty interest in those subareas).

Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and/or computer science do seem to be the exception (Berkeley, MIT, CMU, UIUC, etc.), in that they are often “lumped” (although not always completely – CMU has ECE “lumped” but CS “split”) despite each subject being large enough to have its own department.