BoopieJones

I'll see what happens when I get to college. I was always really interesting in computer and graphic design and wanted to go in that direction, but felt that engineering would be more my level. So I combined them - I'm not really sure what mechanical and civil engineering is, Maybe I'll take a little bit of a few things before I decide my Major...or I can do the double Major thing.

I find out whether or not I got accepted to my ED school sunday. I have a very good chance of being accepted, and getting a great merit scholarship...I'm not going to a place like MIT, I screwed up my chances for Cornell (my personal essay was terribly written last minute.....I forgot to give them my resume) I have not finished the part two of the app for cooper and it is due sunday...I applied ED to a pretty good engineering school (high ranked and yada yada) so I'm probably going there...and very excited about it. Just not about its tuition.

dac

Haha public universities ftw. My school is nationally ranked anyways though...

Mechanical Engineering = machines and such, talk to Lucifer Sam about it

Civil Engineering = me = roads, bridges, buildings, sewer design, traffic control etc...

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Seltzer

My impression of computer systems engineering is that it's half software and half electrical.

The calculus involved in higher level electeng can be fairly advanced from what I've heard, but as a software engineer, the requirement for calculus in my life basically dropped off after my general eng. year.

Software engineers have much more use for discrete mathematics than calculus... linear algebra, formal logic, algorithmics, statistics, graph theory, enumeration, proofs and pure maths in general are all useful.


So I would guess that computer engineers get the best of both worlds. For me, pure maths >>> calculus >>>>>>>>>>>>>> stats.

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