Students will learn and apply modern electrical or computer engineering techniques, tools, and practices to build and create technologies to meet the needs of society. We will educate students to continue their life-long learning process as they become effective engineers in the workplace of the future. They will also be well prepared for graduate school to further their education. The Department of Electrical Engineering offers separate programs in electrical engineering and computer engineering. The profession of electrical engineering encompasses a variety of technical specializations as diverse as computers and digital systems, biomed, microelectronics, photonics, materials, controls, communication systems and signal processing, energy conversion and power distribution, antenna design and electromagnetic scattering, and robotics in manufacturing.
Electrical engineers create, research, design, develop, manufacture, and market new devices.
Computer engineering includes multimedia systems, robots, microprocessors, memory systems, networks, the Internet, chip design, supercomputers and all other imaginable aspects of computer organization, design, and programming. The curriculum in electrical engineering is based upon physics, mathematics, and computational algorithms. Courses in analog and digital circuit theory, computer design, electromagnetic field theory, materials, systems and control, energy conversion, and electronic devices and circuits, together with the use of computer techniques in practical design problems, provide a broad background for work in a range of engineering tasks. The curriculum in computer engineering starts with the same solid base in physics, mathematics and computational algorithms, and covers the fundamentals of electrical circuits, computer hardware, systems, materials, devices, numerical analysis and operating systems. In the final year of both curricula, students reinforce their interest in one or more specialty areas by means of technical elective courses, individual studies, and undergraduate research projects.