Highest Respected Computer Engineering College?
Highest Respected Computer Engineering College?
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Hello All,
I am seriosly considering several colleges for a computer engineering degree. I thought it would be helpful if I could get some non-biased, forum-based opinions on THE best and highest respected college/university in this field. I have researched Cornell and Clarkson in my home state of NY. Any opinions on these? All help is greatly appreciated. :)
Thanks,
Nick
I am seriosly considering several colleges for a computer engineering degree. I thought it would be helpful if I could get some non-biased, forum-based opinions on THE best and highest respected college/university in this field. I have researched Cornell and Clarkson in my home state of NY. Any opinions on these? All help is greatly appreciated. :)
Thanks,
Nick
RE: Highest Respected Computer Engineering College?
There is no THE best school, for any specialty, but there may well be a THE best school, for you. Clarkson has grown a lot since my time there, but it's still a small school, where you won't get lost in a crowd.
But that was forty plus years ago, when Clarkson had the only student accessible computer in the whole world, and computer engineering didn't exist as a specialty. Now "computer engineering" covers several distinct specialties ... and in forty years it may not exist, having been subsumed by something else or evolved in directions we can't predict now.
Which brings me to my second point. Don't specialize any more than you have to. You could very well end up doing something that you haven't learned about yet, or something that doesn't exist now.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Highest Respected Computer Engineering College?
Also, would you say computer engineering is too narrow a field of specialization, or are you referring to branches within the computer world, such as "network engineering" for example?
Thanks again!
Nick
RE: Highest Respected Computer Engineering College?
I.e., a _lot_ of engineering goes into making and applying computers ... but some coursework that's advertised as computer engineering may be too specialized to allow you to make a living when the next inflection point arrives.
A slightly contrived example: Suppose you had just graduated with a degree in producing floppy diskette drives. Could you find work? Maybe, but probably not producing floppy drives.
To expand on that, if you learn all there is to know about how to design computers as they exist today, what will you do in ten years, when they're made of micromechanical machines, or molecules, or atoms, or plants, or ... something else?
Better, I suggest, to learn how to apply the laws of physics to _any_ problem ... and to know how to learn the new laws as they are discovered.
Take the hard math and the hard physics, and sample some other stuff you haven't tried.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Why only shoot for local schools? Find a school that will give you a rock-solid foundation. That will set you up to do just about anything.
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