Computer engineering is an excellent career choice according to the document for several reasons:
1. There is high market demand and increasing salaries for computer engineers due to growth in fields like computing, networks, biotechnology, and virtual reality. Starting salaries in Egypt are between 2000-3000 LE and higher in other Arab countries.
2. The career offers a wide variety of job opportunities in different work types like software, hardware, networking and different work places like companies, universities, hospitals.
3. There are opportunities for high promotion rates from junior to senior levels and project management roles in just a few years.
4. The work provides comfort and freedom as it takes place in air conditioned offices and allows flexibility in
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6. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• Extreme Growth in Computers, Computing
and Networks.
– "Information technology is over a $2.5 trillion
global industry “ according to Information
industry.
Technology Association of America (ITAA)
• We Seek Security in an Insecure World
– computers and networks need more protection
from Viruses, worms, hackers, crackers, info
thieves and cyberterrorists.
7. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• Wild Growth in Biotechnology.
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• Virtual Reality
• Networks Highly Needed in Companies and
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8. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• Top Five Professions in Demand for
2007 According to Yahoo Hot Jobs:
– Internal Auditor
– Copywriter
– Senior Administrative Professional
– Web Developer
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9. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• According to Yahoo Hot Jobs
2007:
Senior web developers can
expect to earn between $71,000
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percent increase over 2006 levels
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10. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• Top Five Professions in Demand for
2008 According to Yahoo Hot Jobs:
– Public Accountants
– Senior-Level
Senior Level Administrators
– Lead Applications Developers
– Web Developer
– Attorneys http://hotjobs.yahoo.c
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11. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• Top Five Professions in Demand for
2008 According to Yahoo Hot Jobs:
– We will see the greatest starting salary
gains of any IT job classification in 2008
2008.
– Base compensation for these individuals
is expected to rise 7.6%, to between
$80,250 and $108,000 annually. http://hotjobs.yahoo.c
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12. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• 5 careers: Big demand, big pay
According to CNN Money.
– Accounting
– Sales and marketing
– Legal
– Technology .Net Developer
– Manufacturing and engineering
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13. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• 5 careers: Big demand, big pay
According to CNN Money.
– Developers of Microsoft's software
programming language .NET can
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$85,000 a year
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14. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• The 25 Top Jobs for 2005-2009
According to Fast Company
Site.
– Computer Software Engineer in
The Third Rank and Computer
System Analyst in the Ninth
Rank.
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15. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• Top 50 In-Demand Occupations
According Career Voyager Site.
– Registered Nurses
– General and Operations Managers
– Physicians and Surgeons
– Elementary School Teachers, Except
Special Education
– Sales Representatives
– Computer Software Engineers,
Applications
– Lawyers
– Computer Systems Analysts http://www.careervoya
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16. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Market Demand & Salary
• Starting Salaries in Egypt between 2000
LE and 3000 LE.
• Starting Salaries in Other Arab
Countries are Equivalent to 7000 to
10000 LE
17. The Career Is Excellent If
Market
Demand
Interesting
Increases
High Study
Salary
Job Career
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Varieties Gain
Experience
Comfort
High &
Promotion Freedom
Rate
18. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Job Varieties
• Computer Engineering has wide range
of available jobs either on the work type
(Many International Companies Have
Branches in Egypt: Smart Village
Companies, Oracle, Microsoft, Mentor
Graphics, Others) level or work place
level.
19. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Job Varieties
• Work Type Level:
– Software Design.
– Hardware Design.
– Networking.
– Robotics.
– Controlling.
– Biomedical
– Modeling and Simulation.
– Database Systems
– Graphics
– Machine Learning
– Web Programming
20. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Job Varieties
• Work Place Level:
– Working in Company.
– You can work in:
• Banks
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Mobile Phones • Ad ti i
Advertising
• Airports Companies • Movie
• Seaports • Hospitals Production
• Universities • Publishers • Others
• Hotels • Journals
21. The Career Is Excellent If
Market
Demand
Interesting
Increases
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Salary
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22. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
High Promotion Rate
Junior Senior Project Manager
Starting 1-2 Years 4-6 years
23. The Career Is Excellent If
Market
Demand
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Salary
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Experience
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Rate
24. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Comfort & Freedom
• The type of required tasks in any
computer job often involves computer
and comfortable air conditioned office
not like other jobs which require some
hard or uncomfortable tasks.
• Kind of freedom in choosing the place to
work in since computers are spread in
many kinds of places.
25. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Comfort & Freedom
• You are free to choose the way of your
work:
1. Work in Company (
p y (Full Time)
)
2. Work in Company (Part Time)
3. Own a Company.
4. Work at Home for a Company.
5. Work at Home for Internet (Outsourcing).
6. Mix of All of The Previous.
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Market
Demand
Interesting
Increases
High Study
Salary
Job Career
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Varieties Gain
Experience
Comfort
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Promotion Freedom
Rate
30. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Easy To Gain Experience
• You are graduated with an Experience.
Study years are experience years.
• You can work while you are student while
the other student can train only.
• You are graduated up-to-date with the
latest technologies.
• Easy to get latest materials (software,
books, references on the net and learning
groups) and teach yourself to gain more
and new experience.
31. The Career Is Excellent If
Market
Demand Interesting
Increases Study
High
Salary
Job Career
C Easy To
Varieties Gain
Experience
Comfort
High &
Promotion Freedom
Rate
32. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Interesting Study
• Studying courses depend mainly on
thinking and hand work.
• Studying materials require books,
computers and some easy to get
devices. Nothing hard to get or new
and not available technology.
• Easy to make distance, online and
channel postgraduate Studies while
working.
33. The Career Is Excellent If
Market
Demand
Interesting
Increases
High Study
Salary
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34. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Common Questions
• If I’m not excellent in study period will I find
a job?
– Not all computer engineers are clever besides
not all computer engineering jobs require clever
engineer.
– You can choose your way to work as mentioned
plus you can choose the place to work in.
– Some banks or hospitals need a computer
engineer in order to make sure that software is
installed and works well.
35. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Common Questions
• I can choose another career then
take courses in computer
– If you change your career to computer
you won’t gain the undergraduate
experience of the computer engineer
plus you won’t be hired as computer
engineer with the same salary.
36. Why Computer Engineering is an
Excellent Career?!
Common Questions
• I’ll choose any career because I have
someone who will support me and find a
good job for me.
– You will lose the computer engineer
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opportunities and benefits.
– Many companies release not required
employees year after year so you have to
choose the career of the future plus you
have to depend on your work not on some
one. Companies don’t like to lose money.