Academic Departments Electrical and Computer Engineering Pratt School of Engineering Electrical engineering is a broadly-based discipline dealing with the processing, control, and transmission of information and energy by making use of electrical and electromagnetic phenomena.
Electrical engineers design, build, and make extensive use of computers.
The twenty-first century will have continuing demands for electronic systems in most industrial and consumer products. Graduates with electrical engineering backgrounds are prepared for their first job in engineering or management as well as to undertake graduate or professional school education in a variety of disciplines. The curriculum permits students to concentrate in such areas as computer engineering, signal processing and communications, solid-state electronics, and circuits, electromagnetic fields and optics, and electronic systems. The flexibility of the undergraduate curriculum permits students to complete the requirements for a second major in such areas as biomedical engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, history, public policy studies, and many others. Students with interests such as premedicine, prelaw, economics, art, music, psychology, and social sciences can be accommodated within the curriculum through individually designed programs.