Bachelor's Degree Program
in Electrical Engineering

(Available to students enrolled before Fall 2009)

Educational Objectives

The objectives of the undergraduate Electrical Engineering program are to produce graduates who will:

• contribute to the economic development of this state and the nation by the competent and ethical practice of electrical engineering

• be recruited by leading industrial, governmental, and academic organizations

• assume leadership roles in their organizations by virtue of their excellent technical abilities, communication skills, and comprehensive vision

• use their technical competence to creatively solve electrical engineering problems for the betterment of society

• ceaselessly improve their technical competence

Electrical Engineering Curriculum

The Electrical Engineering curriculum is roughly divided into two segments, lower division and upper division. Lower division courses lay the groundwork for upper division courses and must be completed with sufficiently high grades to show that a student is adequately prepared for the in-depth studies of the Upper Division. Students must pass the upper division checkpoint in order to enroll in upper division classes.

Lower Division

The freshman year emphasizes basic skills in math, science, computing, and humanities, but also includes two courses which introduce students to electrical engineering as a field of study.

The sophomore year provides a firm grounding in the fundamentals of electrical engineering, as well as additional background work in computing, math, and science.

Upper Division

Courses at the Junior level reveal the diversity of electrical engineering. The variety of courses taken in this year provide an introduction to each important topic, and form the core knowledge of an electrical engineer.

The senior year allows opportunities for the student to acquire knowledge within one or more specialized areas in accordance with the student's career goals. At this level, each student's individual program of study must be crafted in consultation with their advisor, and approved through appropriate channels.

Laboratory courses form a consistent thread through the curriculum and serve as integrating experiences. These courses bring together and build on knowledge from a multiplicity of other courses; each laboratory course should therefore be taken at a point in each student's program of study when the student is best able to capitalize on knowledge gained in background courses in order to successfully complete the laboratory requirements and in order to best benefit from new material contained in that lab.