<p>I am planning to declare computer engineer as my major. I want to know how is it hard? what courses you think is the toughest? I do like math and basic science.</p>
<p>Post this in the engineering section. You’ll get good advice.
Go to discussion home on the left, top of discussion menu. Then about 1/2 way down or so you’ll get to the “majors” section and see engineering listed.</p>
<p>Agreed, Lots of recent threads on this very topic in the engineering forum!</p>
<p>Doing what Crazed suggests brings you right back here. Where is this "engineering forum"that will answer the op’s question?</p>
<p>Sorry gang. I guess I thought I was still on the “search” forum.</p>
<p>Most majors have the issue of a lot of work in a short time, which requires discipline. How “hard” the material is depends on your background. The thing about computer science is that it encompasses many many subfields. For example, under Computer Engineering you could do hardware or software, or systems for that matter. You could branch into materials. You could do database design. You could use software or make software. You could work in commercial or government ventures, and the programming languages you pursue would likely be affected by your proposed pathway.</p>
<p>One thing some people don’t get is that often degrees in the same school, for example all engineering majors, have similar requirements until you get directly in the major. At the school I teach at, you have to take two of a year of chemistry, physics, or biology. You don’t need a language at all, but can use it as a humanity. You do have to take four humanities. For some people, the requirements other than their major are the issue.</p>
<p>If you want to do something easy, dig ditches for a living. Going to college is hard. If you are really not that sure of being up to snuff, go to a community college that has a relationship with a four-year school, so that you can easily transfer after two years.</p>
<p>Here is a recent thread that is relevant -
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1505145-why-do-people-fear-engineering-so-much.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1505145-why-do-people-fear-engineering-so-much.html</a></p>
<p>Scroll back a few pages and the subject comes up frequently…</p>
<p>It’s depend on your enthusiasm, curiosity and effort.
Check these page before make decision about your future career
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<p>Consider also the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook.</p>
<p>To put things into perspective, its a lot more difficult to find a job as CompE, than it is to actually finish the degree.</p>
<p>1st and to a lesser extent, 2nd year, are the years of most programs where they weed the students that aren’t capable of finishing the program out. Basically its an “either you get it, or you don’t” sort of topic in general.</p>
<p>@Mark77</p>
<p>“To put things into perspective, its a lot more difficult to find a job as CompE, than it is to actually finish the degree.”</p>
<p>Is this just anecdotal (i.e. you are having trouble finding a job), or is there more to it than that?</p>
<p>If anecdotal, would you mind telling me how prestigious a school you went to and what your GPA was roughly? (edit: reading this back it sounds insulting and accusatory…I was just trying to see if this was something that is happening to people with >3.5s or something, so as to be properly terrified.)</p>
<p>This board is on a mission to scare me away from computers.</p>
<p>^ I believe mark is a Civil Engineer. I dont know why he talks about majors that he isn’t familiar with. I agree, a lot of members here try to scare us but most of their arguments are crap and have no proof</p>
<p>If you do CS, CPE, EE, Software Eng. You will have an easier time finding a job than the vast majority of majors. I read Civil Eng is doing bad but that doesn’t mean other engineering are doing bad. Plus, CPE and CE have no relation so CPE is not affected by CE recession</p>
<p>^ To be fair, jobs for computer hardware engineers - ostensibly, the canonical jobs for graduates of computer engineering programs - aren’t as easy to come by as jobs writing computer software. Of course, most computer engineering graduates will easily find jobs in software, as will almost all computer science majors, a fair number of electrical engineering majors, a smattering of people from other STEM disciplines, a few people from non-technical programs and even people without any post-secondary education at all.</p>
<p>Of course, demand might not always be what it is now. Industries go through cycles, and the software industry has already proven once that it’s no exception.</p>