Electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers have quite different courseloads. Even within electrical engineering, semiconductor physics, radio frequency electronics, electromotion, and power systems are all completely different from computer architecture and one another. That's without delving into specialties in each.
The person you're replying to never suggested that there weren't differences between the engineering degrees' course loads. I believe you may have missed their point completely.
Are you suggesting that engineering students have no choice about which areas to study, just because they have labels? Many study more than one, and take multiple degrees. I knew one who got seven bachelor's degrees in various engineering and science fields.
I'm saying that if you did a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) you've done EXACTLY the same course material as every other student in that course, even across different universities.
An employer getting an Engineering graduate knows exactly what they are getting.
> I'm saying that if you did a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) you've done EXACTLY the same course material as every other student in that course, even across different universities.
While engineering (including EE) programs tend to have less flexibility within schools, and probably also between them, than other fields, it is by know means zero difference in classes.
I was graduated with a BSEE. I can say with certainty that I did not take the same set of classes as anyone else, and most who graduated with me also did not. I don't know what kool-aid you have drunk from, but falsehoods about other fields of study are not welcome here.
this is also wrong, though. You will not have done exactly the same course load! Universities have specializations and areas of research focus that influence and dominate their course material and presentation. You will, however, have been exposed to all the material that ABET thinks is necessary to accredit that program as being an electrical engineering one.
assuming you went to an accredited school, of course.
In Australia, the courses are certified by the Institute of Engineers. Everybody does the same maths, physics, chemistry subjects. Only in the final year or two do the students get a choice of elective subjects.
Most Engineering students share a common first year (again, no electives) but the subsequent years differ depending on speciality (electrical, mechanical etc).
Contrasted to a science degree, where two people with a "Physics major" may have done very different work, both in subject matter and in difficulty.
Electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and chemical engineers have quite different courseloads. Even within electrical engineering, semiconductor physics, radio frequency electronics, electromotion, and power systems are all completely different from computer architecture and one another. That's without delving into specialties in each.