Welcome to Our Department

If you are beginning Computer Engineering in 2020, your first year is starting in an unusual time.

The pandemic has moved classes, meetings, work, and many daily routines onto digital systems. For computer engineering students, this is both difficult and revealing. The infrastructure you are preparing to study is suddenly visible everywhere: video calls, learning platforms, networks, servers, devices, databases, and software that people depend on.

This year may not give you the ordinary campus experience at first. Still, it can teach an important lesson: technology is not abstract. When systems fail, people feel it. When systems work well, they make education, communication, and cooperation possible.

Take your foundations seriously. Programming, mathematics, algorithms, operating systems, and networks will help you understand the world you are already using. Do not let remote learning make you passive. Write code regularly, ask questions, take notes, and keep contact with classmates.

Also protect your patience. Learning technical subjects during a disrupted year is hard. Progress may feel uneven, but steady practice matters more than a perfect routine.

Welcome to the department. May this strange beginning make you more resilient and more aware of why good engineering matters.