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Not sure what it is today at Purdue, but it was ECE when I was there as well.

That said, it was still separated from CS.

As I say above, in my estimation a key differentiator is that CS is a little bit more focused on software application development and is more abstracted from the hardware. Whereas the computer engineering folks may do just as much coding, but it's more likely to be a firmware focus where the code is inextricably linked to the hardware, i.e. making an electrical or electromechanical system do something.

There's enough overlap that learning one can lay the groundwork to do the other, with the exception that a CS major may be able to be a great firmware engineer, but that CS major is probably never going to be doing analog circuit design.

(Granted, most EEs will never touch analog circuit design... Analog experts these days are few and far between, and extraordinarily well compensated as a result.)

Yes all is true, my point being the the "computer industry" is vast, and rapidly growing, and both CS and EEs are required for it.  Industries in which MEs are common, are either not growing as quickly, or in some cases are declining.

Hence, I'm not surprised that EE is the most common of engineering disciplines.  I probably could have spelled that out more clearly in my initial response.

ME would be much more common if we did more manufacturing here.

Of course.  In a roundabout way, that's pretty much the point I was making.

Sadly we've also allowed tons of our EE jobs to move overseas as well.

For a while, my cousin headed up marketing for the Quilted Northern Bath Tissue division at Georgia Pacific.  He was still pretty young and was dating at the time, so he used to tell women he was in the "paper industry."  He was making all kinds of bank, so ultimately it worked out fine for him... 

For a while, my cousin headed up marketing for the Quilted Northern Bath Tissue division at Georgia Pacific.  He was still pretty young and was dating at the time, so he used to tell women he was in the "paper industry."  He was making all kinds of bank, so ultimately it worked out fine for him...

Others crap were his bread and butter

I think folks don't often click links without perhaps a paragraph of explanation.

True.  That’s why I wrote one. 

I think 847 read, then transitioned immediately to this topic.

Degrees/Jobs?

here is what I know about degrees:

Mine:
1 Bachelor of Business Admin - Major Finance/Econ
2 Master of Science in Finance- Corporate Finance/ Investment

My kids:
Kid 1- Bachelors Degree- Nursing
Soon to be Doctorate, CRNA
kid 2-Bachelors- Biomedical Engineering

Guess which one came out of school with a much higher compensation package lol. Soon to change.

Kid 1 took the early lead, but is gonna get chased down?

(I was going to make a point to read the housing stuff, but I’m trying to balance posting with doing my actual job)

The other way around, most likely.