@Coulombs law
Question on ECE. I noticed you NA guys do a course called Electrical and Computer Engineering. What does it entail, exactly?
Here in the UK we have 3 branches:
They're all separate and distinct, with the first being the most prestigious and well known. It mainly focuses on power engineering and renewable resources. The other two focus on computers and/or consumer electronics.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
- Electronic and Computer Engineering
- Computer Systems Engineering (sometimes called Computer Embedded Systems).
But you guys combine electrical engineering and computer science into one discipline.
Yes our program here is combining Computing science with Embedded systems and hardware.
A more accurate way of describing ECE is that it is the border line between Electrical engineering and Computer Science, this program avoids all of the theoretical aspects of Computer science such as Algorithm courses and discrete structures and mainly focuses on the practical aspects and just hard coding mainly (C,C++, Java)
The Electrical Engineering aspect we cover is mainly basic circuits, inductors, and capacitors with the option of specializing further in your fourth year.
The programs you listed are subsets of ECE and I would believe that it is a specific specializations which has pros/cons. I prefer the regular ECE degree here in the NA because due to the sheer broadness of the program and gaining mass knowledge and later choosing to specialize in a specific subset of the field during your fourth year.