Is there programming (software) in the compE curriculum at UIUC?

Colleges & Universities University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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<p>HEre is the list of courses, and I did not notice a class with programming in the title. Can someone please tell which ones would have programming (design/coding) in it?</p>

<p>[Prospective</a> Students: Undergraduate Curriculum in CE Fall 2006 and Later - ECE ILLINOIS | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign](<a href=“http://www.ece.illinois.edu/students/ugrad/curriculum/ce-curriculum-06.html]Prospective”>http://www.ece.illinois.edu/students/ugrad/curriculum/ce-curriculum-06.html)</p>

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<p>The core of CE is not programming. However, you can actually take a number of Computer Science programming courses as part of the 23 hour technical elective requirement for ECE. Go here for required courses and the technical elective requirement [Course</a> Information Suite, Course Catalog, Class Schedule, Programs of Study, General Education Requirements, GenEd](<a href=“Course Explorer”>Course Explorer) In the Technical Electives section click on “List of Technical Electives.” Also you can see the description of any numbered course listed bystarting here [Course</a> Information Suite, Course Catalog, Class Schedule, Programs of Study, General Education Requirements, GenEd](<a href=“Course Explorer”>Course Explorer)</p>

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<p>thanks, drusba. does this mean that a compE student needs to <em>choose</em> (via his or her own discretion) the CS courses to get more software exposure - vs just following the compE core?</p>

<p>I notice that the ‘dismal science’, econ, is not amongst the discretionary tech courses a compE major can take for credit towards satisfaction of a compE degree. Linguistics is, however - maybe it is the language thing, as in computer language. Would there be enough bandwidth to take econ as a minor and still get out in 4 yrs?</p>

<p>A question I have now is: </p>

<p>for UIUC compE majors, what kind of jobs/employers would they be most well suited for and what kind of jobs do they mostly end up doing?</p>

<p>I thought I read somewhere in the ENGineering majors thread that many -most? - compE majors (generally throughout all colleges) end up doing business computer /design-programming (software) and not chip/computer design (hardware). Possibly I recall that this is because this is where the lion’s share of jobs are (vs in the hardware capacity). If this is true, I wonder if compE is overkill and possibly a student might do just as well in compsci (wd this be in the college of LAS? )
<a href=“http://www.ece.illinois.edu/students/ugrad/curriculum/tech-electives-06.html[/url]”>http://www.ece.illinois.edu/students/ugrad/curriculum/tech-electives-06.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>So another question might be–
what is the profile of the typical computer-related recruiter to UIUC ?
–looking for students who can do software or hardware design?</p>

<p>Are they looking <em>more</em> for compE majors or compsci majors, or are both of these majors about equal in demand (amongst recruiters looking for students versed in computers)?</p>

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<p>Yes, you would need to choose more CS courses to get more software exposure. You also have to meet the university’s (and engineering college’s) “general education” requirements which includes taking some humanities and social science courses and some econ courses can be among those selected to meet that requirement. I cannot tell you what most CE grads end up doing but if what you really want to do is software/ programming the CS major is the better option. There is thread on thos site that you might want to go through:<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-illinois-urbana-champaign/932286-any-questions-ece-q-recent-ece-graduate.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-illinois-urbana-champaign/932286-any-questions-ece-q-recent-ece-graduate.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>thanks for drusba for the reply. is CS major housed in the LAS college?</p>

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<p>There is the computer science major in engineering and now one in LAS. The one in engineering is the one more well-known to employers. The one in LAS started last year and thus has no graduates yet. As far as CS courses are concerned, a student in either program can take all the same courses. The CS engineering major must take certain chemistry and physics courses normally taken by engineering students; the LAS major is not required to take those but is required to take more upper level math courses.</p>