It's hard to keep up unless you're directly involved. When I was in
college, EE was either power or radio design. There were no computers, no
transistors, no television, no cell phones, no iPods, no satellites, etc.
Whew!
Dave
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:11:30 -0600 Rich Blinne <rich.blinne@gmail.com>
writes:
> Computer engineering is basically a CS/EE double major. Even hardware
>
> design looks like software these days where the design is done in a
>
> register transfer language and sent to logic synthesis software. In
>
> this week's New Scientist there is an interesting article where
> evolutionary algorithms have surpassed human design of flash
> memories.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 30, 2007, at 8:11 AM, "George Cooper"
> <georgecooper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > When I was in college, all computer courses were in the
> industrial
> > engineering dep't. I believe all engineers had to take the
> Fortran
> > course. Albeit, by 1973 or '74, I think Computer Science was an
> > established dep't.
> >
> > I assume computer engineering would be more focused on hardware
> > design. Is this the case?
> >
> > Helio
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. F. Siemens, Jr."
> <dfsiemensjr@juno.com
> > >
> > To: <wdwllace@sympatico.ca>
> > Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 10:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [asa] paradigm shifts/Theological Naturalism - 'The
>
> > Nature of God' = Naturalism
> >
> >
> >> Around here computer engineering is an entirely different study,
> a
> >> specialized branch of electrical engineering.
> >> Dave
> >>
> >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:39:38 -0400 Dave Wallace
> <wdwllace@sympatico.ca
> >> >
> >> writes:
> >>> D. F. Siemens, Jr. wrote:
> >>> > However, I note that around here the term applied for the
> >>> discipline that
> >>> > does the debugging (and writing) of programs is "computer
> >>> science."
> >>> > Dave
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Yes it is called computer science but IMHO it should be
> computer
> >>> engineering. Science is used in an effort to give the field
> more
> >>> legitimacy.
> >>> Dave W (CSCA)
> >>>
> >>>
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