BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
GENERAL INFORMATION
The undergraduate electrical engineering program leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. The program provides a thorough study of fundamentals of electrical circuits, solid state electronic devices, electromagnetics, digital computers, and signals and systems. The engineering courses in these subjects are based heavily on the mathematics and science courses taken during the freshman and sophomore years.
The mission of this program is to engage our students seeking educational achievement as our nation enters a new age with new demands and opportunities. Our goal is to provide undergraduate students with a broad-based education for a career in electrical engineering with the skills necessary to become creative leaders in their profession with the passion and desire to discover, invent, innovate, apply, and advance new science and technology to the nation’s most significant problems.
The program's objectives include:
Instilling a broad-based understanding of the fundamental technical subject areas associated with electrical engineering.
- Requiring technical depth in at least one area of specialization, and allow for elective opportunities in other areas.
- Developing problem-solving skills with modeling, analysis, design, and computer simulation as tools.
- Providing a broad educational component that complements the technical content of the student’s major discipline, including multidisciplinary experience, humanistic and societal issues and communication skills.
A major change in courses and degree requirements was introduced for students entering as freshmen in September 2000. The new semester-by-semester program in Electrical Engineering can be found at EE Curriculum.
- Opportunities exist to select elective courses during the senior year from among the following specializations:
- Telecommunications and Information Science, which deals with the communication and control of information. This specialization includes Internet, LANs, WANs, and multimedia. Current work emphasizes coding cyber-security, wireless information networks, communication networks linking computers, speech recognition and generation, and restoration of blurred and noisy pictures.
- Electrical Power, which deals with the design of electrical machines and the description of these motors and generators as units in large systems. Included in this specialization are methods for the transmission and distribution of electric power, and the design and analysis of systems to detect and prevent faults and to provide other safety measures. (Most electives offered on Brooklyn campus only.)
- Systems & Control, which deals with and automatic controllers that use information to improve performance of physical systems such as electronic regulators for automobile engines, automatic pilots in aircraft, and manufacturing robots.
- Computer Systems, which deal with the design, construction, and utilization of digital computers, and the relation of software to hardware. This specialization includes the special circuits and devices that are used in computers and the mathematical theories for their design and description (e.g., switching and automation theory).
- Solid-State Devices, which deals with the design of transistors, integrated circuits, and other components used to generate, amplify, and switch electrical signals and electrical power. Included in this specialization are methods for the interconnection of these devices in order to carry out prescribed signal processing and computer functions as well as the study of the application of basic principles from physics and chemistry to the development of new devices.
- Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, which deals with the analysis and design of antennas, microwave components, lasers, optical fibers, and acoustic signal processors. A special current application is wireless transmission in cities and buildings. This specialization is also important in the study of factors which influence the propagation of radio and radar signals through the atmosphere and into space, of sound signals in the oceans, and of seismic vibrations from earthquakes or from test explosions used to detect mineral deposits in the earth.
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