computer engineering

Circuits-and-code field

Computer engineering is the branch of engineering that combines electrical engineering and computer science to design and develop computer hardware and software systems.

It encompasses everything from microprocessors and circuit boards to embedded systems and networking infrastructure.

Computer engineers work on the physical components that make computing possible and the low-level software that controls them: She studied computer engineering to design medical devices.

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