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What Is a Computer Hardware Engineer? A computer hardware engineer is in charge of researching, developing, and testing hardware, or the physical equipment that makes up a computer. If you have a passion for updating and upgrading computers, read on to find out what you might do as a computer hardware engineer.
Computer science students focus on software. By hardware I mean computer engineering students learn how to build parts of or an entire computer. They study all the computer components: the networks and how they talk to each other and how to make a better computer chip -- these are hardware areas.