ECE mainly consists of designing and developing electronic circuits, communication systems, and its associated technologies along with their maintenance. Digital electronics, communication protocols, signal processing, and microelectronics are some examples of the course content. Their working fields typically involve telecommunications, robotics, embedded systems, and electronic design.
On the other hand, CSE generally includes software development, computer systems, algorithms, data structures, and network technologies. The core areas include programming languages, databases, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and software engineering. Graduates of CSE are mostly hired in software development, data science, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and IT infrastructure. Though both fields overlap in areas like embedded systems and network technologies, CSE leans more toward programming and computational theory, whereas ECE emphasizes hardware and electronics. Therefore, ECE tends to be more hardware-oriented, while CSE is more focused on software and computing systems.