Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Co-op) - Computer Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT’s Computer Engineering option in Electrical Engineering BS will provide skills to ensure devices such as laptops, smartphones, autonomous cars, and cardiac pacemakers function efficiently. Smartphones, laptops, autonomous cars, cardiac pacemakers, blood pressure monitors, and more. These devices all embed computing systems into electrical components. And these systems require an electrical engineer with an understanding of computer engineering to help make them function efficiently. What’s the difference between the computer engineering BS degree and the computer engineering option in electrical engineering BS degree Learn more about the similarities and the differences between these two closely related fields.Students in the computer engineering option of the electrical engineering BS learn to design using hardware description languages, verify through simulation, and physically implement and test custom digital circuits and systems, including computer systems. Furthermore, they learn how to configure and use analog and mixed-signal circuits. All of these are essential components of microcontrollers, which in turn are used in application-specific and embedded systems. Great emphasis is placed on the hardware-software interface through the coverage of high-level and assembly programming languages in the two computer programming courses they take, which are tailored toward electrical engineering. In addition, they will study digital signal processing, radiation and propagation, power electronics, control systems, communications, circuit theory, computer architecture, computer-aided design, embedded systems, solid-state devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMs), and robotics.

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