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This seems a lot different than the degree I did in Oz back in the 90's, which was a 6 year course (every 6 months was mandatory work experience): Computer Systems Engineering @UTS. Their current equivalent is this sub major:

https://handbook.uts.edu.au/directory/smj03034.html

Interesting is how different the two courses are. I learnt a bunch of hardware design and build (cpu, embedded, electronics) as well as software design and build.




Looks like your course focused on real-time and embedded systems, but used the same name. MIT's course is focusing more on general-purpose servers.

I expect MIT also teaches RT/Embedded also but probably calls it something along those lines.

Both skillsets are necessary, and IMHO not enough programmers are exposed to real-time systems in school. It's a very different style of coding and all modern desktop systems would work better if their designers had a better understanding of real-time principles.




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