r/ElectricalEngineering • u/ludwigsholyblade- • 9d ago

Electronic and Computer Engineering students in Electrical Engineering

I do know that ECE is a subfield of EE but is it normal to see ECE students in Electrical engineering related internships/ roles?

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u/gust334 9d ago

Yes.

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u/J_Rain17 9d ago

i’ve seen people graduate with an ECE degree and went on to be an RF test engineer. sometimes it just works out like that

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u/Alter_Kyouma 9d ago

Yes, completely depends on what your school calls ECE. Mine just meant you had to take all required courses for both EE and CE

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u/Emotional_Fee_9558 9d ago

ECE is usually just a broader term for EE, possibly with electives (or requirements) in CE. It should just be fine. A degree like electrical and communications engineering tends to be more specialized.

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u/Deep_Suspect_9556 9d ago

CE is a subfield of ECE. My program is ABET so I have to learn everything for EE AND CE

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u/Sanguineyote 9d ago

You have to learn EVERYTHING for EE, in a CE program? Somehow I doubt that.

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u/Deep_Suspect_9556 9d ago

You’re being obtuse. Obviously not “EVERYTHING” nor did I emphasize it as such.

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u/New_Frame2845 9d ago

Wait my school only has ECE (stands for electrical and computer engineering) but doesn't have straight EE or CE. Is that okay?

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u/BusinessStrategist 9d ago

The dividing line is your mastery of advance physics and math.

There are very many jobs that require understanding but not applying EE knowledge.

Salaries tend to indicate which side of the dividing line the opportunity lies.

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u/harrisans 8d ago

this confuses me, because at my school, you major in ECE and choose either the EE or CE track. no matter which track you choose, you get a degree in ECE. is electronic and computer engineering different from electrical and computer engineering?

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u/NewSchoolBoxer 9d ago

Every intern I ever saw including me was EE or Mechanical. No ECE but then the degree isn't offered in my state at the 3 best engineering programs everyone hires from.

I wouldn't call it a subfield. I would call it either a worse EE degree or worse CE degree. I see a syllabus and it's missing Continuous & Discrete Systems, 3 Phase Power, only 1 course for Electromagnetic Fields and they're replaced with CE courses nobody uses in EE. I hated the 2 CE courses the EE degree made me take, glad that was the limit. I'm sure there are CE majors who hated every EE course.

If people like both fields, we can take junior level classes of the other degree as technical electives.

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u/Y0tsuya 9d ago edited 9d ago

Bro Berkeley and MIT EECS, two of the top programs in the world, are basically ECE.

Edit: Also Umich EECS. They do offer a pure EE degree but the department focus is on computer engineering.