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Computer Engineering and Related Studies is a degree category that consists of the following common degrees:
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Students of computer hardware engineering learn how to create schematics of computer equipment to be built, make models of new hardware designs and test those models, analyze test results and modify designs as needed, and update computer equipment so that it will work with new software. In short, they learn to build the machines which together with software form usable computing systems.