Computer engineers are essential to the development of rapid advances in computer technology. Devices such as cell phones, audio players, video recorders, alarm systems, x-ray machines and some medical tools are all the result of computer engineers who design digital devices and integrate them with embedded software that meets the technological, scientific and administrative needs of any industry.

As the program offered by the Metropolitan State University of Denver,?you will study the design of digital hardware and software systems including communications systems, computers and devices that contain computers, focusing on how digital devices interface with users and other devices.

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Most computer engineers are employed by research and development laboratories and high-tech companies, such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, LinkedIn, Facebook, National Instruments, Amazon, Oracle, IBM, HP, Lockheed Martin, etc.