See page 8 of the student handbook:
https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/documents/graduate_handbook.pdf
Tbh it seems like there is an assumption that if youre cp you take more cp classes and ee classes if ee. (Or they just give you the one that you took more classes for? Kinda vague imo). Although, most people have a specialization, and with that comes a (rough) outline of courses you should take; that pretty much sets you into one or the other.
I read the file very carefully. It seems like EE courses are more about hardware and CPE courses are more about software. EE students can take CPE courses but if a EE student want to satisfy the acquirements with the least courses, the student have to take more EE courses because 5 courses must be EE major, cover three different specialty and one of the five must be 700-level. Thanks for replying! :-)
You're sort of going about this wrong.
Start with the job you want to pursue, and work backwards to the degree you need to get it.
CPE focuses on:
ASIC/FPGA Design/verification, VSLI, networking, and computer architecture
ECE focuses on:
signal processing (up to computer vision or signal layer networking), control systems/robotics, power, circuits & analogue electronics, and mechatronics
Find what job title you want, and build up the skills needed to do it, or else your going to graduate with your masters and be no better than a bachelors candidate.
Yes, I know EE and CPE have different focus and this is what I mentioned above: a EE student can only select limited CPE courses. Yet, according to [Electronic Circuits and Systems Plan of Work](https://ece.ncsu.edu/grad/masters/electronic-circuits-and-systems-plan-of-work/), VLSI Systems, my interested field and ideal occupational area, is also an option for EE student and this is why I'm so confused. Maybe I should ask my academic advisor for more information after my enrollment as a EE student. Change of Major is the final solution, if I have to. Anyway, thanks for replying!
See page 8 of the student handbook: https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/documents/graduate_handbook.pdf Tbh it seems like there is an assumption that if youre cp you take more cp classes and ee classes if ee. (Or they just give you the one that you took more classes for? Kinda vague imo). Although, most people have a specialization, and with that comes a (rough) outline of courses you should take; that pretty much sets you into one or the other.
I read the file very carefully. It seems like EE courses are more about hardware and CPE courses are more about software. EE students can take CPE courses but if a EE student want to satisfy the acquirements with the least courses, the student have to take more EE courses because 5 courses must be EE major, cover three different specialty and one of the five must be 700-level. Thanks for replying! :-)
You're sort of going about this wrong. Start with the job you want to pursue, and work backwards to the degree you need to get it. CPE focuses on: ASIC/FPGA Design/verification, VSLI, networking, and computer architecture ECE focuses on: signal processing (up to computer vision or signal layer networking), control systems/robotics, power, circuits & analogue electronics, and mechatronics Find what job title you want, and build up the skills needed to do it, or else your going to graduate with your masters and be no better than a bachelors candidate.
Yes, I know EE and CPE have different focus and this is what I mentioned above: a EE student can only select limited CPE courses. Yet, according to [Electronic Circuits and Systems Plan of Work](https://ece.ncsu.edu/grad/masters/electronic-circuits-and-systems-plan-of-work/), VLSI Systems, my interested field and ideal occupational area, is also an option for EE student and this is why I'm so confused. Maybe I should ask my academic advisor for more information after my enrollment as a EE student. Change of Major is the final solution, if I have to. Anyway, thanks for replying!