Mephistopheles said:
Very Very Sorry for the OT but couldn't resist myself - What is the difference between the emphasis of curriculum b/w Electrical and Computer Engg? What are the similarities in curriculum of Electrical, Computer and Aerospace Engg?
I will give you very basic idea about curricula of Electrical Engg., Computer Science Engg. and Aerospace Engg. Electrical Engineering deals mainly with Electrical Circuits, Electric Motors/Generators, Power Electronics, Digital/Analog Communications Signal Processing, Digital/Analog Electronics (VLSI). It also has courses from CS like Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Algorithms and Data Structures. It's a vast field and I've missed many sub-fields.
Computer Science Engineering mainly deals with Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Signal Processing, VLSI etc. It's also a vast field and people go in hardware as well as software field.
Aerospace Engineering basically deals with Aircraft Design, Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Rocketry etc.
The similarity between Electrical and Computer Science is a lot. Infact in foreign universities there is no separate department for CS and EE. They call it Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science i.e. EECS. And about Aerospace Engineering, it comes under completely different domain. The common between EECS and AE are only first year courses which are common to all other branches also.