本科计算机工程课程由UCSB的计算机科学与电气与计算机工程系联合提供。多学科研究计划通过这些课程的组合来促进计算机硬件的集成。该课程提供了有关计算机工程基础知识的广泛教育，以及包括数学在内的基础科学的坚实基础。学生可以专攻以下领域，例如计算机网络，计算机系统设计，分布式系统，多媒体，编程语言，实时计算和控制，超大规模集成（VLSI），机器人技术，信号和系统，设计和测试自动化，机器学习，以及系统软件架构。
Computer engineering focuses on the design of computer systems. As a student in the Computer Engineering program, youll learn hardware design, software concepts, robotics, circuit design, and networking. Youll gain more software-based training than electrical engineering students, and the curriculum is focused more on the lowest-level interactions among software and hardware, digital hardware design, and peripheral-systems interfacing. Electrical and Computer Engineering is a broad field encompassing many diverse areas such as computers and digital systems, control, communications, computer engineering, electronics, signal processing, electromagnetics, electro-optics, physics and fabrication of electronic and photonic devices. As in most areas of engineering, knowledge of mathematics and the natural sciences is combined with engineering fundamentals and applied to the theory, design, analysis, and implementation of devices and systems for the benefit of society.