An undergraduate computer engineering option for electrical engineering

TLDR

Computer engineering focuses on designing and using digital processing systems for general and specialized applications such as communications, control, and information processing. The paper proposes an undergraduate computer engineering option within electrical engineering to meet the growing demand for trained engineers in digital processing. The program’s curriculum combines hardware and software courses to equip students with comprehensive digital system skills.

Abstract

Computer engineering is concerned with the organization, design, and utilization of digital processing systems. These may be general purpose computers or more specialized digital systems that are concerned with communications, control, information processing, etc. The rapidly expanding application areas for digital processing techniques require increasing numbers of properly trained engineers, and it is the responsibility of electrical engineering education to provide the necessary educational opportunities. A means for doing this is an undergraduate computer engineering option within electrical engineering. The curriculum for such an educational program would be both hardware and software oriented, as described.