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Computer engineering (or Computer Systems Engineering) encompasses broad areas of both electrical engineering and computer science^[1]Computer engineers are electrical engineers that have additional training in the areas of software design and hardware-software integration. ^[2] In turn, they focus less on power electronics and physics^{[citation needed]}. Some areas computer engineers are involved in are ASIC design, FPGA development, firmware development, software development, hardware-(firmware/software) integration, circuit design, and system-level design and integration^[3]. Electrical Engineers design power systems. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... Power electronics is the technology associated with the efficient conversion, control and conditioning of electric power by static means from its available input form into the desired electrical output form. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... The acronym ASIC, depending on context, may stand for: Application-specific integrated circuit ASIC programming language Australian Securities and Investments Commission This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A field-programmable gate array or FPGA is a gate array that can be reprogrammed after it is manufactured, rather than having its programming fixed during the manufacturing — a programmable logic device. ... A microcontroller, like this PIC18F8720 is controlled by firmware stored inside on FLASH memory In computing, firmware is a computer program that is embedded in a hardware device, for example a microcontroller. ...

Academic discipline

The first accredited computer engineering degree program in the United States was established at Case Western Reserve University in 1971 by Jimmy Prater; as of 2004 October there were 170 ABET-accredit computer engineering programs in the U.S.^[4] Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, with some residence halls on the south end of campus located in Cleveland Heights. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar, known as the year of cyclohexanol. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see October (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ...

Due to increasing job requirements for engineers that can design and manage all forms of computer systems used in industry, several tertiary institutions around the world offer a course of study in computer engineering. Both computer engineering and electronic engineering programs include analog and digital circuit design in their curricula. As with most engineering disciplines, having a sound knowledge of mathematics and sciences is necessary for computer engineers. Electronic discipline that deals with the behavior and effects of electrons (as in electron tubes and transistors) and with electronic devices, systems, or equipment. ...

In many institutions, computer engineering students are allowed to choose areas of in-depth study in their junior and senior year, as the full breadth of knowledge used in the design and application of computers is well beyond the scope of an undergraduate degree. The joint IEEE/ACM Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Engineering defines the core knowledge areas of computer engineering as^[5]: An organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established in 1963 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged to create the IEEE. At the time of the merger, the AIEE’s Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing (established...

• Algorithms
• Computer architecture and organization
• Circuits and signals
• Database systems
• Digital logic
• Digital signal processing
• Electronics
• Embedded systems
• Human-computer interaction
• Operating systems
• Programming fundamentals
• Social and Professional issues
• Software engineering
• VLSI design and fabrication
• Computer Networking
• Distributed Systems
• Advanced Database systems

The breadth of disciplines studied in computer engineering is not limited to the above subjects but can include any subject found in engineering^{[dubious – discuss]}. Flowcharts are often used to graphically represent algorithms. ... A typical vision of a computer architecture as a series of abstraction layers: hardware, firmware, assembler, kernel, operating system and applications (see also Tanenbaum 79). ... A simple electric circuit made up of a voltage source and a resistor. ... In the fields of communications, signal processing, and in electrical engineering more generally, a signal is any time-varying quantity. ... This article is about computing. ... Digital circuits are electric circuits based on a number of discrete voltage levels. ... Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ... Surface mount electronic components Electronics is the study of the flow of charge through various materials and devices such as semiconductors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, nano-structures and vacuum tubes. ... What is an Embedded System? Electronic devices that incorporate a computer(usually a microprocessor) within their implementation. ... // Human–computer interaction (HCI), alternatively man–machine interaction (MMI) or computer–human interaction (CHI) is the study of interaction between people (users) and computers. ... An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... Programming redirects here. ... Social refers to human society or its organization. ... This article is about people called professionals. ... Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software. ... A simple CMOS Operational Amplifier Integrated circuit design, or IC design, is a subset of electrical engineering, encompassing the particular logic and circuit design techniques required to design integrated circuits, or ICs. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

List of Universities

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• Universidad Nacional del Sur^[6]

Australia: The Universidad Nacional del Sur (National University of the South) is the largest national university in southern Argentina. ...

• University of New South Wales^[7]
• University of Queensland^{[citation needed]}
• University of Southern Queensland^{[citation needed]}

Brazil: The University of New South Wales, also known as UNSW or colloquially as New South, is a university situated in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The University of Queensland (UQ) is the longest-established university in the state of Queensland, Australia, a member of Australias Group of Eight, and the Sandstone Universities. ... The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. ...

• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul^{[citation needed]}

Canada: The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Portuguese Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS in shorthand) is among the largest federal universities of Brazil, where public universities are often among the most qualified institutions. ...

• Dalhousie University^[8]
• Université Laval^{[citation needed]}
• University of Waterloo^{[citation needed]}
• Ryerson University^{[citation needed]}
• University of Toronto^[9]

Greece: Dalhousie University is a university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ... Université Laval (Laval University) is the oldest centre of education in Canada, and was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French. ... The University of Waterloo (also referred to as UW, UWaterloo, or Waterloo) is a research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ... Ryerson University is a public university located in downtown Toronto, Canada. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

• University of Patras(?)^{[citation needed]}

Japan: University of Patras (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών Panepistimio Patron) is a university located 6 km northeast of downtown Patras, 3 km S of the Rio-Antirio bridge, 206 km W of Athens, 106 km NE of Pyrgos and 2 km east of Rhio, Greece. ...

• Tokyo University(?)^{[citation needed]}

Nepal: The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyos Hongo Campus. ...

• Kathmandu University^{[citation needed]}

Netherlands Kathmandu University was started in 1991 with the motto Quality Education for Leadership. The University operates through its six Schools of Science, Engineering, Management, Arts, Education and Medical Sciences. ...

• Delft Institute of Technology^[10]

Turkey Founded in 1842, the Delft University of Technology, in Delft, the Netherlands, is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive technical universities in the Netherlands, with over 13,000 students and 2,100 scientists (including 200 professors). ...

• Istanbul Technical University^[11]
• İzmir Institute of Technology^[12]

Puerto Rico: Maçka Campus Istanbul Technical University (ITU, Turkish: commonly referred to as İTÜ or teknik üniversite) is an international technical university located in Istanbul, Turkey. ... İzmir Institute of Technology (İYTE; in Turkish, İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü, commonly referred to as İYTE) is a public research university in İzmir, Turkey. ...

• Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico^[13]

South Africa: The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR) —commonly referred as Poly or La Poly in Spanish— is a private non-profit university located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ...

• University of Pretoria^[14]

United Kingdom: The University of Pretoria is a university in South Africa, with a total of about 38 499 students being enrolled in 2005. ...

• Glamorgan University^[15][16]
• University of East Anglia^[17]

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• Clemson University^[18]
• Columbia University^{[citation needed]}
• Cornell University^{[citation needed]}
• Illinois Institute of Technology^[19]
• Liberty University^[20]
• New Jersey Institute of Technology^{[citation needed]}
• Northeastern University^{[citation needed]}
• Northwestern University^{[citation needed]}
• Oklahoma State University^{[citation needed]}
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute^[21]
• Rochester Institute of Technology^[22]
• Stevens Institute of Technology^{[citation needed]}
• Stony Brook University ^[23]
• The George Washington University^[24]
• University of Arizona^[25]
• University of California, Irvine ^[26]
• University of Cincinnati^[27]
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign^{[citation needed]}
• University of Illinois at Chicago^{[citation needed]}
• University of Nebraska at Lincoln^[28]
• Univesity of Maine at Orono^[29]
• University of Oklahoma^[30]
• University of Wisconsin - Madison^[31]
• University of Wyoming^[32]
• Villanova University^[33]
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University^{[citation needed]}
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute^{[citation needed]}
• Saint Mary's State University^{[citation needed]}

Clemson University is a public, coeducational, land-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Cornell redirects here. ... State Street Village, S.R. Crown Hall, Armour Main Building Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private Ph. ... Liberty University is a Christian liberal arts university in Lynchburg, Virginia. ... New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey. ... “Neu” redirects here. ... Northwestern University (NU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university with campuses located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago. ... Oklahoma State University Logo The Oklahoma State University System comprises of five educational instututes across Oklahoma. ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a nonsectarian, coeducational private research university in Troy, New York, a city lying just outside the state capital of Albany. ... RIT redirects here. ... Stevens Institute of Technology is a technological university located on a 55 acre (223,000 m²) campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, founded in 1870 on the basis of an 1868 bequest from Edwin A. Stevens. ... State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York, United States (on the north side of Long Island, about 55 miles (89 km) east of Manhattan, New York). ... The George Washington University (GW) is a private, coeducational university located in Washington, D.C., United States. ... The University of Arizona (UA or U of A) is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public coeducational research university situated in Irvine, California. ... The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. ... A Corner of Main Quad The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, or simply Illinois), is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious campus in the University of Illinois system. ... This article is about the University of Illinois at Chicago. ... The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is a state-supported institution of higher learning located in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Often referred to as simply Nebraska or UNL, it is the flagship and largest campus of the University of Nebraska system. ... University of Oklahoma, abbreviated OU, is a coeducational public research university located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. ... Plaque on Bascom Hall, UW-Madison. ... The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyomings high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet (2194 m), between the the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. ... Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. ... Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic university in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. Although it is a comprehensive university with many departments, the agriculture, engineering, architecture, forestry, and veterinary medicine programs from its historical polytechnic core are still considered to... Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private university located in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States. ...

See also

• Association for Computing Machinery
• Electrical engineering
• List of electrical engineers
• Engineer
• Information technology
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Computer
• Computer science
• Computer-aided software engineering

The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems. ... This is a list of electrical engineers, people who made contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering. ... Look up engineer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Information and communication technology spending in 2005 Information Technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ... Not to be confused with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). ... This article is about the machine. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... ERwin CASE tool on Windows 2000 Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) is the use of software tools to assist in the development and maintenance of software. ...

References

An organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established in 1963 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged to create the IEEE. At the time of the merger, the AIEE’s Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing (established... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... An organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established in 1963 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged to create the IEEE. At the time of the merger, the AIEE’s Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing (established... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... An organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), established in 1963 when the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) merged to create the IEEE. At the time of the merger, the AIEE’s Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computing (established... The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the worlds first scientific and educational computing society. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Computer Engineering Conference Calendar