This course lays the ground work for understanding problems ranging from communications engineering to data analysis in medicine and manufacturing. These upperclass electives stress the rigorous analysis and design principles practiced in the subdisciplines of electrical engineering. The following five course selections are introductory to major speciality areas of electrical engineering. Students must take three of them. The elective laboratory courses provide the student with essential hands-on experience in techniques and design that are important for the practicing engineer as well as the research scientist.
Students choose from a departmentally approved list.
With these courses a student defines her or his interest area within the field of electrical engineering. Elective choice should be chosen with care, planning and consultation with an advisor. Consult also the advising materials for all the subdisciplines of electrical engineering. These courses make up the balance of the 22 ECE Elective hours and can be taken from a departmentally approved list including almost all of the 200 and 300 level ECE courses. This elective requirement gives each student freedom to define a technical course of study of considerable breadth or focus.