Exactly. Well said.

 

How would marketing or management be related to what I want to do??

What part of that should I look into???

Ive never heard of marketing or management thats related to Computer Engineering, please explain!!!

thanks,
Dustin

 

engineering = math

If you hate math that much, you should consider another field.

 

When you talk about wanting to help produce actual processors and what not, your talking about computer / electrical engineering.

Both are math INTENSIVE. I'm taking a couple electrical engineering classes right now (I have to) and each one requires a lot of algebra / calc.

If you hate math, go do something else aside from engineering because esentially math = engineering

 

read? not... my bad.

 

There are many people involved in technical fields that aren't strictly engineers. You can work on project management, marketing, office management, lots of things without getting into the math and science of processor design. You might try attending an industry conference or job fair. A business library would be able to provide you with industry groups, or at least some pointers in the direction to proceed to find out about positions within the hi-tech field.

 

to OP: yes, computer engineering or electrical engineering is what you want if you want to be involved with the latest hardware development. however, i agree w/everyone else when they say to stay away from engineering if you hate math.

it's not just math...but all sorts of critical and analytical thinking involved. i wouldn't be able to handle it...nice and easy CS for me

on a side note...i still don't understand why business majors make so much more than engineers!! it's ridiculous. party, do no work, and have no class on fridays yields a salary that twice as much as the avg engr w/in a few years.

 

Computer engineer ciriculum is going to allow you to take a lot of hardware related classes..digital logic design, digital electronics, FPGA/ASIC design, IC design, microprocessors, computer organization, digital comnputer design, and related programming such as assembly, HDL, firmware. Along with this though, you will be required to do a lot of object oriented, 'standard' programming and programming theory -- C, C++, java, operating systems, discrete structures, database design, etc. If you do not like programming, CE is not for you.

Electrical engineering will allow you to do all the same hardware related stuff, little programming (probably only a C class or something lower level), but require you do take more electrical related courses -- transmission lines, wave propagation, analog circuit analysis & theory, semiconductor devices, electromagnetic theory.

So basically, if you want to get involved with hardware or embedded software, you will be stuck doing something you probably don't care about.

I wanted to be involved with hardware just like you and I started out as a CE major. After a couple programming classes, I realized I didn't want to spend 20+ hours/week learning to program so I switched to EE. I didn't mind the additional classes that came with this major as it would be more valuable down the line. I figured it would be easier to teach myself a new programming language by reading a book than it would be electromagnetic theory.

You WILL have to take math courses. certainly through Calc 3, linear algebra, and some type of numerical techniques (matricies, vector spaces, interpolation, Gaussian elimination, similarity transformations and diagonalization, splines, data fitting. sound fun? ), and probability.. but honestly, you won't use any of this when dealing with hardware

as I mentioned before I was an EE major. now I'm involved with ASIC design and verification on government contracts.

 

Do those highly compensated business major types work a 40 hour work week? Or is it closer to 80?

 

I got my degree in Computer Engineering a couple of years ago, and all I can say is that if you don't like programming or math, then you won't make it very far in this industry. Unfortunately, chip design and architecture requires a LOT of math, engineering, and programming courses. It's more in-depth and definitely a lot harder than you think.

How do you know that you want to be involved in the "progression of chips"? Are you even sure that the IT/engineering industry is right for you? Do you have any other career interests?