Hello Aspirant,

As you have asked about the career of software engineer and whether a student from ECE can become a software engineer or not, so the answer to your question is yes, of course. Now a days  many Software companies are recruiting the BTech students irrespective of the streams. Moreover Software Companies are looking for ECE students after CSE and IT people. You can become a software engineer after studying ECE, you just need to have some require skill regarding software and programming.

Listed below are some of the ways by which ECE department student can become a software engineer :

1. Learn at least any two programming languages which are in highly demand like C, Java, C++, Python ,C# etc.

2. Take part in various coding competitions based on your skills and get certified by various coding institutes.

3. In the final year apply for some software based internships and give a preference that you can work on a technical programming job.

For further information about career as a software engineer, you can go through the link below:

https://www.careers360.com/careers/software-engineer

Hope this helps you

All the best for future!