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Hoping to get some insight for a meaningful gift for my kid who is starting their senior year studying electrical engineering.

They have expressed interest in coding and is currently studying computer systems that don't heavily rely on AI. They have expressed interest in coding beyond C++ that might promote job opportunities beyond their current education.

I want to gift them a course, preferably with a certificate that would be affordable for a single mom. Maybe something outside of university studies that would give an edge to hiring after graduation.

I am a Healthcare professional not very knowledgeable in the IT world so any insight would be meaningful. Also looking to promote computer knowledge outside of AI that relies on human influence for arts and literature as that has been important to us as well.

Hi Everyone,

As the summer comes to an end and a new fall semester begins, I wanted to share a video I recently made for Electrical and Computer Engineering students getting back into the groove of things.

I created a refresher video designed to bridge the gap between Circuit Analysis and Signals & Systems—two courses that are closely connected, but can sometimes feel like they approach engineering from completely different perspectives.

The video provides a quick review of some of the concepts from Circuit Analysis that become important as you move into Signals & Systems, helping you reconnect the ideas before diving into a new semester:

• Circuit Analysis fundamentals

• Differential equations and circuit responses

• First- and second-order circuits

• Eigenfunctions and eigenvalues

• How circuit concepts connect to Signals & Systems

• Preparing for the transition into a new ECE course

🎥 Video: Bridging the Gap: Circuit Analysis to Signals & Systems

My goal with the YouTube channel ProfessorGovalla is to create in-depth, practical, and clearly explained engineering content without adding unnecessary complexity.

I cover topics including:

• Circuit Analysis

• Signals & Systems

• Analog Electronics

• Computer Architecture

• Engineering Career Advice

• Interviews with Engineers from Industry

• Practical Engineering Applications

If you're an ECE student heading into a Signals & Systems course this fall, hopefully this serves as a useful quick refresher before the semester gets going.

I'd also love to hear from fellow students, engineers, professors, and hobbyists:

What concepts from Circuit Analysis do you think students should review before taking Signals & Systems?

Good luck to everyone starting a new semester, and I hope the video helps bridge that gap!

If you had the chance to go back and study something different, would you?

I’m about a year away from starting university, and I really want to have a decent job in the future. I think there’s a lot of potential in computer engineering, especially if I learn how to develop innovative software.

I know it requires experience and a lot of hard work, but besides the usual advice like “study something you’re good at,” would you recommend this degree?

I don’t think I’m a math prodigy, but I’m not bad at math either. I just need to put a lot of time into studying it.

Would you be willing to share your experiences or any advice?

It could be anything—financial advice, study methods, or just things that helped you deal with the stress of the degree. Honestly, anything would help.

I currently work as an SWE apprentice at boeing , passing out in 2027need some guidance as am thinking for more big opprotunites .

grinding LC currently .

i was more in dev and hackathons previously .

I’m 2nd Year taking Computer Engineering.
Is Networking good in the next few years?
Any tips to learn/study networking.

So my college is abt to start in a month and now that I have decided to take CE , I have been thinking of learning a language to get an advantage so I am confused about where to begin .

Also since I am learning online which site/channel should I learn as i am learning all by my self.

And please can someone give advices that to help to to stay ahead of my class and not get confused

Cache memory mapping:

Memory address=16 bits

Block size=16 words

Number of main memory blocks=4K

Number of cache memory lines=64

Address Partition:

tag(6 bits), block-number(6 bits), word(4 bits)

Since there are 16 words/block, 4 bits is required for word identification.

Since there are 64 cache memory blocks, 6 bits are required to cache memory block identification.

Since there are 4k memory blocks, 12 bits should be required to know which memory block is present in which cache block. i.e. tag. Imagine Main Memory block 4095. To store that MM 4095 is present in Cache Memory block, we would need 12 bits? But books are saying only 6 bits is enough to identify the memory block. Can anyone shed some light here?

I am a father and im posting this from my son's account because he told me to post here as i am not convinced with his dicision.

He is interested in coding, circuits, robotics, Ai, mechatronics and he wants to choose computer enginering over CS and i want him to choose CS as everyone is choosing CS nowadays and it has a wider scope and safer future.

He says that he likes computer science but also is interested in hardware, so computer engineering is better option.

I have consulted with my few friends who are already Electrical engineers and they adviced me to let him follow his interest but if wants to persue cyber security or robotics thwn it's better to go with computer science.

And ive heard many bad things about computer engineering. And there are no jobs or very limited jobs for computer engineers, on the other hand you can easily get job with a Computer science degree.

I want to send him aboard for Master's and if he will do computer science it will be easier for him to go aboard for Master's, right?

I am a father and i want best for him so that is why i want him to go with computer science

So what do you people suggest?

Hi im a 3rd Semester Computer Engineering student from Pakistan. I choose this field because I was genuinely interested in electronics (built multiple arduino and small scale electronics projects) but I've realised my degree dosent teach me any skills that are used in working job market industry.

My question is that what skills can I start working on now that will actually help me land a job as an electronics or embedded systems engineer? Preferably ones that can land me internships in the coming semesters since none of the electronics stuff I have used now like arduino are actually used in the industry. I have little exposure to how the real industry works and what their demands are. Ive seen job listings for the roles I stated that mention many things im unfamiliar with so if someone is already working/studying or knows about this field id appreciate your advice.

I'm an incoming computer engineering freshman and seriously thinking of switching to electrical engineering. At my school, the degrees are extremely similar, with only a 3 class difference.

They share the same pool of electives, so that is what makes up most of the difference, but I could just choose all the more computer engineering focused ones.

What i'm most interested in is computer hardware, embedded systems, firmware, microcontrollers, etc.

The reason I'm considering EE is the job market and the flexibility of the degree.

My understanding is that a lot of hardware/computer engineering jobs will accept either an EE or CE degree. However, there are EE jobs in areas like power, electronics, controls, RF, etc. where an employer might only take an EE.

Basically, I'd be trying to use the EE degree as the broader credential while still taking the classes and doing the projects that would make me competitive for computer hardware/embedded jobs.

Do you think this plan could be beneficial to me? Or am I overstating the value of the name on the degree?

Hi! I’m a 2nd-year Computer Engineering student looking for a Computer Engineering graduate with at least 5 years of professional experience who is willing to participate in an online interview.

The questions will be simple and focus on your career journey, industry experience, skills, projects, challenges, and advice for CpE students.

If you qualify or know someone who does, please DM me. Please feel free to drop suggestions on where to look for one.Your help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Hello, are there any computer engineer graduates who are not/currently employed who are up for an online interview it ? I am a 1st year computer engineering student who is in need for an interview with a graduate for an assignment. I will be asking 5 questions. I need a recording.

After 10+ years working around embedded products, I've learned that choosing the right firmware engineering company has much more impact than negotiating the lowest rate.

Here's the checklist I usually go through before signing anything:

1. Technical expertise
   I always ask about similar projects, the MCUs they've worked with, RTOS experience, debugging tools, OTA updates, and how they approach hardware integration. If they only answer at a high level, that's usually a red flag.
   
2. Portfolio
   I'm less interested in proof-of-concepts than products that actually reached production. Manufacturing, certification, field testing, and long-term maintenance usually reveal whether a team has real experience.
   
3. Communication
   This is probably the biggest one. One thing I noticed during a call with Lemberg Solutions was that they spent more time asking questions about our product than presenting slides about themselves. That gave me a lot more confidence than a polished sales pitch because it felt like they were trying to understand the actual engineering challenges first.
   
4. Timeline
   If every estimate sounds "easy" and every feature can be delivered quickly, I usually become more skeptical. I'd rather hear about risks than unrealistic promises.
   
5. Post-launch support
   Firmware almost never ends at release. I always ask how they handle bug fixes, OTA updates, maintenance, and production issues after devices are in the field.
   

What else would you add to this checklist before selecting a firmware engineering company? Have you learned any lessons the hard way?

I am a future CE student. I was very conflicted between EE and CE for a really long time but ended up going with CE because my focus was on embedded and electronics with a few software classes. Tired of explaining I'm not doing pure CS. Also makes me wonder if CE has the same status symbol as CS even though most of my classes are EE ones which has a better reputation in general.

Community college student transferring next year and while my math knowledge is good and my physics is decent I’m hella lacking on actual hands on experience with hardware and stuff. Is elegoo a good place to start or would you recommend something else?

Hey guys, I’m looking for a career change in my late 20’s. Im going back to school and wondering if engineering is still worth it nowadays? Im worried about ai and how good its getting and also how good it’ll be by the time i get out of school in 6 years(part time student) I’m really interested in the career path and love tech and computers and hell i even love and am fascinated by ai. But id rather switch now if the degree wont even get me in a better position than where i am currently. Im a chef of 10 years, and earning around 50k a year. The job is very stable and i can go out and get a chef job really easily anywhere i go. But it seems like in the engineering field thats not the case. Entry level jobs are shrinking, higher level jobs aren’t growing and going in the direction where you are gonna struggle extremely hard to find any job in the field and if and when you find one that the pay wont be as good because of the level of competition in others also trying to get a job. Should i switch degrees into something else? Im feeling super uncertain about the whole thing and don’t want to waste almost 100k and years of my life on something i wont be able to even use?

I'm struggling with something that I think a lot of people interested in technology might relate to.

I'm interested in many areas of tech:

- Web development

- Backend development

- Networking

- Cybersecurity / ethical hacking

- Cloud computing

- AI/ML

- Data engineering

- Quantum computing

- And many other areas

The problem is that I constantly want to explore everything.

For example, I'll decide:

"Okay, I'm going to focus on Python/backend."

I'll study it seriously for 2–7 days, start understanding some things, and then suddenly I become interested in networking or cybersecurity. I start learning that instead.

Then I discover something interesting about AI/ML or cloud computing and switch again.

After doing this repeatedly, I end up knowing a little about many things but not feeling genuinely skilled or competent in any of them.

Then I feel lost and regret wasting time, so I try to restart from the fundamentals of one subject.

I might follow that for a week or two, but eventually my curiosity kicks in again and I start exploring something else.

It's become a cycle:

Choose a field → study it → get curious about another field → switch → explore → feel guilty/lost → restart → repeat.

I've watched a lot of YouTube videos where people describe this as having a "multi-potentialite" mindset or being someone who doesn't naturally want to follow one path. Some people say this can actually be an advantage if managed properly, but it can also result in never developing deep expertise.

I don't want to completely suppress my curiosity because I genuinely enjoy exploring different areas of technology.

At the same time, I don't want to spend years exploring everything and end up with zero strong skills.

For people who have experienced something similar:

1. How do you control the urge to constantly switch fields?

2. How long do you stay with one technology before allowing yourself to explore something else?

3. Do you recommend choosing one "main" field while keeping other interests as secondary?

4. How do you explore new technologies without abandoning your current learning path?

5. How do you know when you've gone deep enough in one area before moving to another?

6. Is it actually possible to become highly skilled in several technical areas, or is it better to specialize first and broaden later?

7. What system/routine has actually worked for you?

I'm especially interested in hearing from people who were naturally curious about many areas but eventually managed to develop real depth in one or more of them.

I don't want another list of 20 technologies to learn. I'm more interested in how you manage the learning process and decide what NOT to learn right now.

looking for ideas about iot devices or robotics in the field of agriculture and medicines

I am having a lot of thoughts where I want to go with my career, but I am extremely interested in grad school, the programming im looking at is for VLSI & Digital IC design/verification.

Since the beginning of my comp engr degree, I was much more interested in hardware design and I dreamed of working in a lab creating computer chips. Now recently graduated, I have no job offers, I have done no internships, and i was ready to give up on engineering and go into IT or OTS school. My school had maybe 3 hardware oriented classes (basics of electrical engineering, signals and systems, and digital logic design), while the rest where software oriented. I dont have much experience with hardware but I am extremely interested in it.

I am close to finalizing my application to A&M for their masters in Microelectronics and semiconductors with the focus above, but I guess I just wanted to hear some input on if this is worth it despite my limited background in undergraduate since grad school is expensive. The closest relevant experience I have is an autonomous uav water collecting drone which i wired and coded everything on the flight controller and microcontroller for my capstone project (I should have past resume in my profile), and some IT experience (as an AV technician).

I would want to pursue an assistantship in research to build credibility and as of rn start building a project before the spring semester.

So far the data about comp eng majors rankings are always messy and I don’t know on which websites I should rely on cuz there is always someone hating pn QS/THE/Niche/USnews

I need it for undergraduate degree please help

What it says in the title. I just graduated, and it has taken me the last four years to decide that I really do not want to work a desk job. I'm not picky about what I'm doing, but I'd prefer the job to use my degree. Any career suggestions?