Why study Computer Science Engineer?
Why study computer science engineering?
Because it is everywhere: in the power grid and smart-phones, in cars and online shopping. Computer engineers are the creators of the modern world.
Who is the software engineer?
An engineer is a professional who, when faced with a problem specific to his subject, has the skills to tackle and solve it. The software engineer does this with software and hardware.
What is it that characterizes a computer engineer?
Traditional craftsmen use their hands, strength and competence, to build objects from raw materials all the way through to finished products. For mass production, we have modern manufacturing processes. But they tend to specialize and distribute the work, and those who work in that area only contribute to parts of it. The great thing about being a computer engineer is the opportunity it offers to create, from start to finish, products that get into the hands of billions of people.
What is the difference between a computer science engineer and a computer scientist?
The difference lies in the word “engineer”: the background acquired during the bachelor’s degree allows the computer science engineer to have the mentality and skills to interface with all other engineers. Of course, the computer science engineer also interfaces with all engineering that has to do with information technology, i.e. automation, electronics, processing systems, industrial automation, production systems, management systems, information systems, all cases where software meets something that is not just software. You don’t need, for example, a computer science engineer if the software only talks to another software, but if the software talks to a person, to a machine, to a device, to a process, to a complex system, you need a computer science engineer.
What are the advantages of being a computer science engineer, compared to other engineering?
There are several advantages to being a computer science engineer: the first is that you are everywhere, because IT is in the robots, it is in artificial intelligence, it is in the banks, it is everywhere. There is no transaction, there is no telecommunication, there is no control system, there is no machine, there is nothing that does not need to be programmed. This allows you to marry being a software engineer and other fields. If you don’t have a specific preference, being a computer science engineer you can be involved in anything, in any field or sector. If, on the other hand, you have a field that you are particularly passionate about, you will definitely need a computer science engineer in that field. Another advantage is that, unlike other engineering fields where it is more difficult to practise (think, for example, of the railway or transport engineer), in computer engineering you have the laboratory “in your pocket”: all you need is a computer to do some practice.
“The software engineer is needed everywhere, therefore, he can be married to any field”