Shweta asked Dhevi Kandasamy, Yum! Brands

AddedTuesday, October 15, 2019 at 8:20 AM

What are the differences between the computer-related engineering fields?

What are the differences between computer science, software engineering, and information engineering? Some schools only offer one or two of them, so are any of them the same? Like software engineering and information engineering?

  • Dhevi Kandasamy , Yum! Brands
    Answered Friday, June 26, 2020 at 11:59 PM
    Software engineering deals mainly with building and maintaining the software systems, including any application you would use in day to day life, mobile applications to banking software. This is about understanding the business need and building a solution to solve the need. Information Engineering is very similar and focuses on architecting and solving problems that are hard for humans to process.
    
    Computer Science is a broader area that includes software engineering, Information Engineering, and more. Computer Science helps understand, design, and develop computer systems. It has more flexibility to build depth in data science, trading algorithms, etc.
    
    If you are unsure of what you would like to do Computer Science would be the way to go. It would help you figure out where your interests lay. Please let me know if a conversation would help.