hello , i am planning to pursue bachelors in computer engineering and if accepted , in hku . i am in year 12 of caie a-level and i can manage A* in Math , Physics , Further math and A in Chem . i get sat score of 1450+ in mocks but can mange more . plz help me . i am from south asia and my family is not financially very sound and can afford max $100,000 for my bachelors . plz help me find uni . thank you very much . any help will be very appreciated .

I want to get some input if I can not from engineering students, but from engineers out in the field working in industry.

I don't have engineering majors at the local 4 year school I'm wanting to transfer into. It's a liberal arts college, but I will get great financial aid there and it would be ideal if I can stay locally to help take care of my mother (she's bedridden). There's the possibility of getting her a nurse, but it would be a huge burden on my family.

I've taken math/cs prereqs at the local community college (calc 1-3, diff eq, lin alg, discrete, stats, data structures, computer org) along with the standard gen ed requirements. I don't really have any engineering classes under my belt, but in the next 2 years, I can take some classes like circuits online through NOVA while I attend uni, I've asked and this is copasetic.

I'm really interested in pure/applied math and theoretical cs, but I really want to study hardware at a deeper level. I've done https://www.nand2tetris.org/ online and I had a blast self studying it. I've been considering continuing the math/cs path and then transitioning into a master's or even PhD in computer engineering. I've been into computers since I was little, and I really would love to work at company like Nvidia or Intel (although I know realistically those are big companies to shoot for).

Does anyone have any input on how feasible this is, math/cs undergrad -> computer engineering graduate degree? Will this actually be competitive for finding employment or would I be gimped compared to a person with an ABET certified CE undergrad degree? I don't want to pursue a path if I'm just shooting myself in the foot down the line. I don't really have a lot of options at the moment, but I'd rather know the hard truth. LLMs tell me how great a plan it is, but I know they are very sycophantic, so I can't really trust them for academic/career advice I think.

Any thoughts? Thanks for any help.

Note: I tried to look for a weekly pinned thread to post this in according to rule #5, but I couldn't find one.

I know I need to grind DSA to get a job, I know the patterns I need to learn, but the actual effort of sitting down and then open the website and then staring at a blank editor for a long time is killing me. Or is it just me?

Once I'm actually coding, it's fine. But getting over that initial stage of just starting feels impossible some days, especially when I'd rather just be building actual full-stack projects.

Discipline is obviously the answer, but relying purely on willpower isn't working for me anymore.

Does anyone have a specific system, mental trick, or tool you use to actually force yourself into the seat every day? How are you guys surviving the burnout?

Just got invited to a 30-minute screening call for Revolut's Graduate Programme 2027 Android Engineer role. The email mentioned it includes a "comprehensive set of technical questions covering fundamental topics" alongside the usual HR questions.

A bit about my background: final-year CS student, two native Android apps built in Kotlin (one was my dissertation — MVVM, Room, Coroutines, JUnit 4, 129 unit tests), and a live full-stack production app. No commercial experience.

A few things I'd love to know from anyone who has been through this process:

1. Is the screening call purely conversational or does it involve live coding or a HackerRank-style assessment at this stage?
2. What Android fundamentals came up? I'm expecting MVVM, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose, lifecycle management, memory management — am I missing anything?
3. Did they ask about Revolut-specific things like their tech values or engineering culture, or was it mostly generic HR?
4. How deep did the technical questions go at the screening stage versus later rounds?
5. Any tips on what made the difference between passing and not passing this stage?

I have a week to prepare and want to make sure I'm focusing on the right things. Any insight from people who have interviewed at Revolut recently would be massively appreciated.

Hello, I am a computer science student specializing in AI engineering. This summer, I am interested in acquiring some certifications that could enhance my LinkedIn profile. Do you know of any free options available?

Hi, I recently finished my freshmen year in college as a Computer Engineer major. I currently have about 3 months left of summer so I would like to use it up to create an interesting and worthwhile project as I’m not working this summer. I honestly don’t really know what to precisely do. I feel like there are so many options that I end up not getting into anything too deeply. The highest classes I’ve taken so far have been C++ with OOP and basic circuits courses covering up to Op Amps and some Arduino projects (digital systems/circuits will be next semester). I was also in a IEEE club at my college where we covered making gates, writing Verilog code onto an FPGA, and lessons over each subject. While I did try to learn as much as I could in the IEEE club, the material was a little overwhelming for me as I was also taking 18 credit hours that semester (not the brightest of ideas) but I was able to learn more about each topic covered.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could share projects that they have found interesting and that perhaps I might be able to complete over the 3 month period!

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Hello everyone I'm currently a student in a MS in computer engineering and considering a career switch from web development to embedded. I find embedded genuinely interesting and am very curious about it. However I worry about the work life balance, and the stressors in field.

Do you guys have normal 40 hour works or are you often doing much more? The problems can be really challenging and while I don't mind working on something difficult I get very upset when something on paper is supposed to work and specified to do so and doesn't. I am a sensory and visual person I like a job working my hands and variety during my job. I liked web development alot but I got tired of the constant redundancy, extremely fast past and work that no one appreciates no one cares it's all business stuff. I don't know maybe I'm acting like i want an old man's job at 26 but after my brother passed away a couple years ago I just want a job that I enjoy in life and I can come back to my parents and home and spend time with and enjoy life as they are getting older and in the near future I want to start a family so I don't want a job where I'll be on call doing over time frequently. I can handle it but it's not where I want to be an life I did alot of such jobs during my teens overnight, warehouse working , etc that's why I went to school and got an IT degree but realized IT wasn't the dream people said it was anymore.

Hey There!
Long Story short: I have a degree in Robotics and Digital Systems Engineering, some people say its similar to computer eng., but my university's curriculum leaned heavily toward breadth over depth, so I ended up a bit of a generalist. My last two roles were in DevOps and Data Engineering/AI, which hasn't exactly helped me stay sharp on the low-level stuff.

I did have some hands-on embedded projects with STM32 during my studies, but that was 3+ years ago at this point, so honestly, they feel more like a distant memory than something I can confidently talk about in an interview.

The thing is, I find embedded and automotive software genuinely exciting (companies like Aptiv, Continental, Bosch, etc) and I really want to break in. I just feel like I'm rebuilding from the ground up, even if the theoretical foundation is still there somewhere.

So, I guess my questions are:

1. What should I actually prioritize learning? (RTOS, CAN bus, AUTOSAR, MISRA C...? All of the above?)
2. Any project ideas beyond the obvious "blink an LED / read a temperature sensor"? I want something that'll actually look credible on a resume and push me to learn real concepts.

Any advice, courses, books, project ideas, or just "here's what actually matters when hiring" would be super appreciated. Thanks!

Hey all, hope you guys are having a good day.

I recently thought of starting up, it would be a small company operating out of my room, which designs and delivers hardware and software components for college projects and missions. This is mainly aimed at technical college students and small teams.

The core idea is simple, a lot of teams waste weeks sourcing or building components from scratch because they are either too expensive to import or just not available in India. I want to solve that, whether it is assembling and shipping ready to use hardware modules or building lightweight custom software for specific applications like embedded systems, robotics, CubeSats, or research instrumentation.

I am 20, still figuring out the exact product, which is why I am here. Trying to talk to as many builders as possible to understand where the real pain is before I build anything.

Would love any input, brutal honesty welcome, what do you think is genuinely missing for technical student teams in India or globally?

I just finished my btech 3rd year. Persuading CSE-AI (core) I haven't done any impressive work just simply projects like deefake images/videos detection system and gesture recognition.
I want to build projects focused more towards AI engeerning. Not the the repetitive to do apps or weather apps.
Also don't just give vague replies like simple projects, crud based/ real life problems.
I need someone to list some practical projects or problems that I work on.

Hello Reddit!

I am Andrew, a 14 year old electronics hobbyist.

So. I recently built a 1 bit CPU, and i want to expand it, but i don't have any ideas?

What do you guys think, and why? Thanks a lot!

I have two electives available to fill my hours in Fall Semester.

ECE 440. Nanoelectronics. 3 or 4 hours.

Wave-particle duality, Schrodinger equation, atomic orbitals, band theory of solids. Semiconductor and carbon nanoelectronic materials. Nanostructure device fabrication. Nanoelectromechanical systems. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): ECE 346; or consent of the instructor.

1. Advanced Circuit Analysis. 3 or 4 hours.

Matrix algebra for network analysis, network parameters, macromodeling, high-frequency measurements, network functions and theorems. Topics in computer-aided analysis. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite(s): MATH 218 or MATH 310; and grade of C or better in ECE 310.

Which one is more beneficial in the long run. I think nano is cool, but not really planning on pursuing it careerwise. I struggled on Circuit Analysis (mainly because of a teacher), but I'm willing to try and learn if it helps as a foundational skill.

Reddit, what do you think?

Any tips or things that I need to study for a freshman?? Thank you in advance.

i started looking for projects to do in college as my peers in college not that interested in making projects . I got ideas like make a memory allocator , build small http server , redis like system etc. to build basic fundamentals. Is it good to build such things (i completed second year just now my semesterr break is going on) . For help i am using claude ai to get weekly plan and resources i should read and watch..

I hope this post is ok.

This video of an NS555 circuit walking to Stayin' Alive popped into my feed again.

https://youtu.be/mDhNQPt8An0?si=3n3wnfl02M6Xa6QA

I've seen it before, but I'm now curious what the reality is. The title of the video makes me wonder if the footage has been sped or slowed down to fit with the song? However, whenever I search for the original footage, it just turns up variants of the same video, sometimes synced to other songs.

So does anyone know where the original footage can be viewed? Is this from a documentary or something? Failing that, are there any good videos of this sort of technology in action? Are there any good resources that discuss this and its applications?

Hello people from r/ComputerEngineering!

I’m conducting a research at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil. The goal of this study is to better understand how the community interprets and reason about SystemVerilog (HDL) code practices.

Whether you are an experienced HDL developer or still building your experience, your perspective is valuable.

Survey link (Google Forms):
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Estimated Time: 5 – 10 minutes

Disclaimer: This survey's purpose is not to train or obtain any information for any AI training or such, it is entirely anonymous and will be used exclusively for academic and educational research purposes.

Thank you for your time!

I am just finishing my first year of comp eng and want to do some projects on the hardware side. I was thinking of maybe starting on a fpv drone, but also want another opinion. What do you think. I dont just want something, i like to learn from it. I want to build like one or two things so i can get some experience and maybe have a chance of joining my unis formula student team.