| ▲ | morpheuskafka 6 days ago | |
> Plenty of cutting-edge science needs hobbyist-level EE, it's just not work in EE But aren't there a lot of actual hardware products that are "simple circuit blocks connected to a microcontroller"? Like a toaster, shaver, keyboard, etc. If that's not "work in EE" then what is it classified under? It's not CS either. | ||
| ▲ | pkaye 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
That would be Computer Engineering. Its somewhere between EE and CS. | ||
| ▲ | petsfed 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
The actual electrical engineering involved there is the sort of thing that an early-career engineer could bang out in an afternoon. Maybe a day or so for the PCB designer. The more time consuming part might be managing the regulatory compliance testing. Most of the orgs I worked in building simple circuit blocks connected to a microcontroller either farmed out the actual EE work to contractors or design houses or had 1 EE for like 20 different projects. | ||
| ▲ | pclmulqdq 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It would have been better phrased as "research in EE." There's no research involved in building a toaster. Another commenter pointed this out, but those products take about 1-2 days of engineering time. | ||
| ▲ | buckle8017 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Computer engineering is the degree for that. | ||