Very Important Decision. Please help

[tmh88]

Hey guys, well I've limited my choices down to the college that I want to go to next fall, Penn State. This means that I have to mail them my decision papers soon with the room/board papers and all that good stuff, along with my conformation of the major I want to be enrolled in.

I've always been fascinated with computers and technology, so since I was about 10 years old I knew I wanted to be somewhere in the computer/tech field. I would like to some day have a job with computer hardware development, or any type of electrical hardware development. Basically any type of pcb, or electrical gadget is interesting to me.

Alright now here comes the big question. If I were to pursue a career in the hardware development field, or something dealing with hardware would you reccommend majoring in computer engineering, or electrical engineering.

From what I've heard, computer engineering is more specific, but electrical engineering is alot more broad of a field, meaning I have a wide variety of jobs that I could get. I would really like to hear from you guys, thanks.

[leishi85]

i was in the same position last year, and i made my decision of majoring in EE, for the very same reason u listed above.

[Madball]

EE. You're almost guaranteed a job before you even graduate.

[tmh88]

thanks guys.

[Nomad]

Make sure you can handle, and to a degree, love math basically before entering those majors.

[EMT]

IMO CompE is broader because you get plenty of the EE's material (less of the analog details perhaps) along with a good awareness of computer science, so you should qualify for more jobs... though employers are probably more used to seeing EE. Anyway, I'm a computer engineering major because I was kind of like you, tmh, having always loved messing with computers. I don't know, CE just seems more accurate. But I guess there's reasons to choose EE too.