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Job opportunities for engineering honours/comp sci (1 Viewer)

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Can't figure which major to choose for engineering and comp sci...
Which type of jobs utilise skills from both degrees?
 

liamkk112

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electrical engineering / compsci is a classic godly combo, u can basically design and program electrical devices / computers from scratch by yourself

most engineering disciplines already have some sort of computational element to them nowadays, eg mechanical engineering where u can program manufacturing stuff using ur mechanical knowledge, so compsci is already good on top as it gives u more understanding of those computational elements

theres maybe not one specific job that every engineering/compsci doubule major goes into, but any type of applied computing job would be there, like optimising production of products, simulating structures and fluids, etc

obviously if u go into software development, if the software has nothing to do with engineering stuff then it wont be that helpful. similarly if u study petroleum engineering u probably aint gonna be doing much programming, so the compsci degree isnt gonna be doing much. but a lot of engineering and compsci jobs overlap nowadays, even data analyst roles would benefit from having an engineering background as u can know how to clearly model a situation. so id say its a good combination, even if there isn't that one job that is directly at the intersection of engineering and compsci
 

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Can't figure which major to choose for engineering and comp sci...
Which type of jobs utilise skills from both degrees?
I think you might find robotics and data science interesting. A key challenge is applying AI in robotics.
Another potential option is biomedical or something similar such as bioinformatics and data science.
Also software engineering and computer science although there is overlap.
 

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