Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Degree: Bachelor of Science
Major: Electrical Engineering
Hours: 120
Electrical Engineering Overview
The Βι¶ΉΣ³» Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering focuses on the design and development of technology that controls and manages electrons and photons, or simply, electricity and light.
This program features a Digital eLearning Content Delivery learning community. This is not what is normally thought of as an online program, although a student can complete the requirements without coming to campus. Resident and local area students have the option of in-classroom sessions with our faculty. This delivery system is ABET accredited and our students often leverage the instruction scheduling freedom that the system provides to co-op and engage in employment at companies throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Obtaining this degree prepares you for a career in automatic controls, bioelectronics, digital systems, electromagnetics, analog electronics, power and energy systems and communications and signal processing. You could work for companies including IBM, Honeywell, Motiva, Intel, American Electric, BASA, TI, Halliburton, Entergy, DuPont, Exxon Mobil and many more national and international industrial influencers. Watch the faculty interview to learn more about becoming an electrical engineer.
Electrical Engineering Courses You May Take
Introduction to ECE: This course introduces various topics in electrical and computer engineering. Technical topics include analog and digital systems. Technical skills include hands-on, design thinking, problem-solving and computer-aided design.
Signals, Systems and Transforms: High-level representation of systems in both continuous and discrete time domains; properties of systems; description of continuous and discrete signals and their properties; zero-pole representations; Laplace and Fourier-based analyses; the concept of sampling and the sampling theorem.
Electrical Analysis: Application of the digital computer to analysis and design of electrical systems using numerical methods and commercial software such as MATLAB.
Electromagnetics: Vector analysis, coordinate systems, static and quasi-static electric fields, electric potential and dielectric forces. Maxwell's Equations, plane waves, transmission lines, matching networks and Smith chart analysis.
Electronics I: Topics include basic physics and operation of semiconductor electronic devices, analysis and design of electronic circuits including diodes, BJT, MOSFET and JFET transistors and their applications; and operational amplifier concepts, circuits analysis and design and applications.
Career Paths for Electrical Engineering
As an electrical engineer, you'll work with technology to design a broad range of devices and systems. From electrical power grids that supply homes and industry with electricity to systems that deliver telephone, radio, television, network and space communications, electrical engineers design the computers that affect almost all of our modern lifestyles.
Often overlapping with computer engineering, a college degree in electrical engineering can open up the door to a technical career in almost any industry. Since technology is always changing and expanding, the need for electrical engineers is always growing.
Primary Careers
Systems engineer, software engineer, electrical designer, business technology analyst
- Automatic controls
- Bioelectronics
- Digital systems
- Electromagnetics
- Analog electronics
- Power and energy systems
- Communications and signal processing
- Computer technology companies
- Technology manufacturers
- Power and energy plants
- Chemical refineries
- Construction companies
- Aeronautics