On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 10:43 -0600, Bryan Murdock wrote: > It sounds like EE and CS are collaborating on more classes now than > when I was there, which is good. There is a lot of overlap, and at > other Universities EE-CS is a combined department. Not sure why they > aren't combined at BYU.
Looking at this from a historical perspective, it makes sense that the CS department ended up in the college of physical & mathematical sciences. However, because most CS students will end up as practitioners instead of researchers, it's unfortunate that it was never moved to the college of engineering and technology. (At least when I was in the program it felt like the CS department was a little too focused on theoretical research at the expense of practical.) Basically, it's a shame that BYU offers Computer *Science* with Software *Engineering* as a single class (barely scratching the surface) instead of a major. That said, both CS and CE have interesting opportunities. If I could do things over again, I'd make more effort as an undergraduate to get involved in at least one professor's lab. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
