{"id":811,"date":"2006-12-13T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T23:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/changing-lanes"},"modified":"2006-12-13T19:19:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T03:19:26","slug":"changing-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/changing-lanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Lanes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking about it for a while, and talking to a fellow student, I am strongly considering changing from Computer Engineering to Computer Science. The transition process is supposed to be fairly straightforward. The reasons:<\/p>\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am already recieving an &#8220;engineering&#8221; degree &#8212; Bioengineering<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Computer Science&#8221; is more well-known than is &#8220;Computer Engineering&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I can take pretty much the same classes, but EE 233 is no longer a requirement (I was looking to petition it away at any rate)<\/li>\n<li>I already have the neccesary foreign language and writing credits (And I get to utilize these credits!)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Computer Science &#038; Bioengineering&#8221; sounds better than &#8220;Computer Engineering and Bioengineering.&#8221; I think this is because the repeated sound is dropped. Furthermore, degrees that sound different (ie, not repeating &#8220;engineering&#8221;) sound like more was done to get them both (which is somewhat true, because of my many credits). This is primarily psychological, but it seems to me to be true.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I need 3 more VLPA credits<\/li>\n<li>Here at the UW at least, Computer Engineering is actually a slightly harder degree to get. I won&#8217;t be taking it any easier as a CS major, but in the future it may become the better-regarded major. For right now though, CS seems to be more well-known.<\/li>\n<li>A name is a dumb reason to change majors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is what my schedule might look like (note the few changes, marked with *):<\/p>\n<p>Winter 2007 (16)<br \/>\nBioE 303 (4) &#8212; Signal Processing (BioE core)<br \/>\nBioE 305 (4) &#8212; Analysis of Physiological Systems &#038; Transport (BioE core)<br \/>\nCSE 451 (4) &#8212; Operating Systems (CS Senior Elective)<br \/>\nCSE 466 (4) &#8212; Software for Embedded Systems (CS Senior Elective)<\/p>\n<p>Spring 2007 (16)<br \/>\nBioE 357 (4) &#8212; Molecular &#038; Cellular Bioengineering I (BioE Core)<br \/>\nBioE 481 (4) &#8212; Research &#038; Design Fundamentals (BioE Core)<br \/>\nCSE 461 (4) &#8212; Introduction to Networks (CS Senior Elective)<br \/>\nCSE 471 (4) &#8212; Computer Organization &#038; Design (CS Senior Elective)*<\/p>\n<p>Summer 2007<br \/>\nQuit Job (?), Find Bioengineering Research Laboratory<br \/>\nNeed 3 VLPA Credits*<\/p>\n<p>Autumn 2007 (16)<br \/>\nBioE 482 (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Senior Capstone Research\/Design (BioE Core)<br \/>\nBioC 405 (3) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Introduction to Biochemistry (BioE Requirement)<br \/>\nCSE 467 (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Advanced Digital Design (CS Senior Elective)<br \/>\nCSE 401 (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Compilers (CS Senior Elective)*<\/p>\n<p>Winter 2008 (15)<br \/>\nBioE 482 (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Senior Capstone Research\/Design (BioE Core)<br \/>\nBioE 470 (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Systems Engineering &#038; E-Medicine (BioE Senior Elective)<br \/>\nBioE 490 (3) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Biomaterials (BioE Senior Elective)<br \/>\nCSE 490i (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Neurobotics (CS Senior Elective, BioE Senior Elective by Petition)<\/p>\n<p>Spring 2008 (16)<br \/>\nBioE 455 (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d BioMEMS (BioE Senior Elective)<br \/>\nBioE 457 (4) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Molecular &#038; Cellular Bioengineering II (BioE Senior Elective)<br \/>\nCSE 444 (3) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Introduction to Database Systems (CS Senior Elective)<br \/>\nCSE 477 (5) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Hardware Design Capstone (CS Senior Elective, if allowed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After thinking about it for a while, and talking to a fellow student, I am strongly considering changing from Computer Engineering to Computer Science. The transition process is supposed to be fairly straightforward. The reasons: Pros: I am already recieving an &#8220;engineering&#8221; degree &#8212; Bioengineering &#8220;Computer Science&#8221; is more well-known than is &#8220;Computer Engineering&#8221; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}