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Departments, Schools, CollegesELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE )Contact Information:
Go directly to: Degrees, Majors, Minors, and Options: Baccalaureate Degrees The Department: The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is in the College of Engineering. All three of the undergraduate curricula in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have the goal of educating immediately productive engineers who are also qualified to pursue further education as necessary to keep pace with these rapidly changing areas. The electrical engineering program prepares students for careers in such areas as electronics, microelectronics, communications, controls, electromagnetics, and signal processing. The computer engineering program prepares students for computer-related careers including microcomputer-based design, computer-aided VLSI design, computer networks, and artificial intelligence applications. The department participates in the honors program. Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (ABET Accredited): The computer engineering program prepares students to work in the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of digital technology. Computer engineers design computers and computer systems, apply computers as components of larger systems, and apply digital techniques to solving a broad range of engineering problems. The curriculum includes a strong electrical engineering component, consisting of most of the required courses in the electrical engineering curriculum. To this base it adds extensive course work in both the hardware and software aspects of computers and digital systems. The program is strengthened by the availability of extensive laboratory and computing facilities. The presence in the department of the Computer Engineering Research Laboratory, the Computer-Aided Design Laboratory, the Digital Image Analysis Laboratory, and the Computer-Aided Engineering Center, as well as research in artificial intelligence and expert systems, computer communications, computer networking, simulation, and other specialties, maintains a modern viewpoint in the undergraduate curriculum. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (ABET Accredited): The goal of the electrical engineering undergraduate curriculum is to educate immediately productive electrical engineers who are also qualified to pursue further educational activities. Electrical Engineering is concerned with the generation, storage and processing of information and electrical energy. Electrical engineers design systems and devices that sense and process information in the form of signals from all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. They work with hardware and software. The program emphasizes basic scientific knowledge, modern design techniques, and laboratory techniques needed for design verification. Maintaining a Modern Viewpoint: The presence in the department of the Computer Engineering Research Laboratory, the Computer-Aided Design Laboratory, the Electromagnetics Laboratory, the Microelectronics Laboratory, the Center for Microcontamination Control, and the SEMATECH Center of Excellence, as well as research in lasers, micro electronics, pattern recognition and image processing, simulation, artificial intelligence, optical communications, robotics, and other specialties, maintains a modern viewpoint in the undergraduate program. For more information contact the department office listed above. |
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