alan_14

Nice FAQ! I want to be a 'puter engineer, and then go and work for AMD or intel, or Nvidia.:), rep for u!

Gnarly

I took a one day class on computer engineer/computer science. Now I am positive that I DO NOT want to be a computer engineer. Way to tedious, more power to you guys who are going into that.

metalkobra

Im getting A+ certified, so im gonna be a comp science major :p, fix everyones compies alllll up [/end computer band aid]

-Thrilla-

Computer engineer involves a lot of math , physics, and electronics. I always thought it's about how to overclock, how to putting things together... but no... I totally agree with Gnarly on that point

From my point of view, comptuer related job is good, but that engineering is just too much...

Mr. Mumbles

So if I want to any one of those engineers taking 4 years of Spanish in HS would not very necessary right? :D =P

uberjon

i actualy have a career in mind for myself but i am still working on finding where to go to school for it.

what i want to do is basicaly.

come into work in the morning and have a pile of papers. with stats of computers that need built. and possibly even oced.

then i go get the parts i need. go to my work place. and take my time buidling computers and MAKING SURE that they are done 100% right. then i send them to packaging after i put them threw all kinds of extensive tests :)


so basicaly i want to put the computers together and maybe even oc them. for customers that pay top dollar for the best built pcs i can put together for them!

i dont want a job like at dell where you are making a hundred million of the same pc. i dont want to see a customer number #583923020 on the order i want to see a actual name! i want to build the computer for the customer not the company thats on my pay check!

can anyone tell me like a vocational school or a tech school that can give me the qualifcations i need to get that job!

t4ct1c47

Not a bad FAQ but it's alittle bit vague. I would've tried to provide information on specific areas of each trade that people may wish to study. EG Programming, Networking, Analyst...

To anyone who is considering taking an IT Degree I will warn you that when you start a course you will slowly realise truly how little you knew about computers. Anybody can slap a few components together and end up with a working system but Degree courses go into even greater detail. To earn qualifications like that you have to do report after report on the inner most workings of damn near every type of component and software conceivable.

As for the A+ Certification, I don't think it's worth the paper it's printed on. When I took mine all it taught me was things like the difference between DRAM (Dynamic RAM most commonly used as main system memory) and SRAM (static RAM most commonly used as cache). A+ also teaches basic operating system features and settings. For example, how to set up user accounts and security settings. All in all, you'd be better off studying for a degree. However, A+ might be a good idea for some people to refresh their knowledge and/or get them into the study routine.

Lethal Injection

here's to uberjon, sounds like you want to work for a private business possibly start your own. i would suggest, and this is very biased, and depends on where you live and where you are financially, whether or not you are willing to go out of state for school if you need to. with that said i suggest The Georgia Institute of Technology (AKA Georgia Tech). double majoring in Comp. Eng. and a Management degree would help you build your own business. also, i believe MIT and Cal Tech would be good choices, if you have those kinds of grades, and finances.

and to Mr. Mumbles, no, 4 years of spanish it high school really is not required at all. i'm a chemical engineer at GT and don't plan on taking any foreign languages, and have nearly lost everything i have learned in the 3 years i took of spanish in HS. it really should not be a problem.

mrreilly

Great FAQ. I'm a senior this year and I'm trying to figure out what I want to go to college for. I'm in an interctive media class and may go into a media related career. But since I did build my own computer and love working with computers, I want to go into something like computer eng. However, I wasn't entirely sure what computer engeniers do until I read this FAQ. I'm giong to look into comp. eng. now.
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Fatal05

Im Majoring in Computer Engineering w007!