Professor Vaccaro, chairperson.
Electrical engineers work in all areas in which electrical phenomena are involved.
Since electrical instrumentation is at the heart of modern science and technology, electrical engineers are not only employed in the computer, electronics, communications, and power industries, but may also be found in diverse enterprises such as transportation, the chemical industry, large hospitals, medical schools, and government laboratories. By carefully selecting elective courses, the student should be able to enter any of these fields after graduation or be prepared for graduate study in engineering or physics. The curriculum emphasizes the scientific basis of electrical engineering and the application of mathematical analysis to engineering problems. Work is required in network and systems theory, atomic physics and solid state, electromagnetic theory, and electronics. Creative use of scientific principles in problems of engineering design is stressed, particularly in the senior year.