No, computer engineering tends to focus more on hardware. When I was doing that kind of thing in college, computer engineering did things like chip design and logic boards and so on. I had courses on DSP and VLSI, multiple assembly languages, RISC vs CISC systems, and so on. In my university, it was considered a subspecializqtion of electrical engineering, with the first two years of undergraduate study being identical.
When I switched over to CS, I was doing things like numerical analysis and software systems architecture.
Both majors used math, but CE (as an EE major) required students to go through (iirc) calculus 5, and I think that CS majors could stop at calc 3 but would end up having to do different kinds of math after that.
frezik@midwest.social 1 month ago
No, the machines tend to be abstract. Such as an infinite paper tape that can manipulate symbols.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That experiment must be ludicrously expensive
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
This just in: theoretical physicists are not scientists.