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Re: What career is right for me?

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Originally Posted by John Gutmann View Post
Right now I think I would rather do something with embedded systems like in what we do here. I am guessing that is a CompE major, but what exactly does a CompE major study? What does a CompE major do as a career?

I would like to do some kind of programming like what they do for something like Asimo or just some kind of factory robot or something. I just don't really know what is out there. But I like designing the electronics for an embedded system then programming it.
I am currently a Junior CompE.

Most of what we do (at least my University (UofHartford)) is embedded microsystems and some signal analysis as well as basic electronics and analog analysis. Basically the hardware end of a computer system. We also learn assembly as well as some hardware description languages.

We are also required to take some CS courses, (so we learn like C++, Java, etc). This is just to 'well-round' us as engineers.

As far as what we acutally do in real life, I have no idea. I know that I definitely want to go into data communications design.

Hope this was of some help.

Jacob
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