Computer Engineering.

Computer engineering refers to the field of designing hardware and software components that interact to maximize the speed and processing capabilities of the central processing unit (CPU), memory, and peripheral devices, including the keyboard, monitor, disk drives, mouse, and printer. Because the first computers were based on using on-and-off mechanical switches to control electrical circuits, computer hardware is based on the binary number system. Computer engineering involves developing operating systems that can interact with compilers that translate the software programs written by humans into machine instructions that depend on the binary number system to control electrical logic circuits and communication ports to access the internet.