Electrical and Computer Engineering has just joined the group of Co-op programmes at Concordia in 1997. The department s recently revised curriculum in electrical engineering places a much greater emphasis on computer programming skills without losing any of the traditional skills of the electrical engineer. The co-op program in electrical engineering was started in 1997. The skills that they have learned prior to each work semester are summarized in the following table.
Students complete an engineering design project, generally working in teams of four.
Entering their first work semester, co-op students have a knowledge of analog and digital electronics and also strong computer programming skills. For the second work term, students add courses in control systems and telecommunications systems. For the internship, students have taken the semiconductor devices course, power engineering, electromagnetic waves and waveguides, and also have enhanced their computer programming skills with data structures and algorithms and numerical methods. Document failures and suggest improvements. 3.Test and document software modules that are part of an aircraft flight simulator controller.