Electrical and Computer Engineering

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The department offers undergraduate degrees in electrical and computer engineering. Both curricula are designed to provide students with the foundation necessary to enter either professional engineering employment or an engineering graduate program immediately after graduation. Students are prepared for lifelong practice by emphasizing the application of scientific and mathematical principles in generating, distributing, controlling and processing of electrical energy and signals. The art of engineering design is integrated throughout the curriculum from the freshman design course to the culminating capstone senior design course in the senior year.

Electrical engineering is the application of scientific and mathematical principles to the design, manufacture, and control of structures, machines, processes, and systems. In the past, the work of electrical engineers has had a direct and vital impact on people’s lives. Electrical engineers have been responsible for the creation of electric power, modern electronics, computers, electronic communication systems, modern flight controllers, automated manufacturing and medical diagnostic tools. An electrical engineering education continues to provide opportunities for solving problems of great social significance and for increasing people’s quality of life. The electrical curriculum emphasizes a solid mix of analysis; design; hands-on laboratory experience; utilization of computer systems; software oral and written communications; and a broad study in humanities, social sciences, economics, and ethics.

Growth in the computer field has been spectacular, with machines ranging from single-chip microcomputers in any number of electrical appliances to supercomputers with literally billions of transistors. Computer engineering today is concerned with all aspects of the computing system, including the development and utilization of hardware, the software algorithm, and applications. The computer engineering curriculum is based on a good mix of analysis; design; hands-on laboratory experience; use of computer systems and software; oral and written communications; and a broad study in humanities, social sciences, economics, and ethics.

Mission

The mission of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is to serve society as a center of higher learning by providing an electrical and computer engineering education to society’s future leaders, innovators and engineers.

Undergraduate Majors

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

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