HomeABET 2000 - Electrical Engineering
Program Educational Objectives
Graduates of the Electrical Engineering program will:
- Successfully integrate the fundamentals of electrical engineering and design/realization practices to develop innovative solutions to complex technological problems;
- Possess excellent communication skills, excel in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, and have an appreciation for non-technical disciplines ;
- Be prepared to launch their careers or pursue graduate studies in electrical engineering or their chose field and engage in life-long learning;
- Be recognized in their chosen fields for their leadership, integrity and sensitivity to global societal issues.
The minimum requirements for the BSE degree in Electrical Engineering are:
- Five Mathematics courses
- Five and one half Natural Science courses
- Fifteen and one half Engineering courses
- Four Technical Elective courses
- Seven Social Science, Humanities or Technology in Business and Society courses
- Three Free Elective courses
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
The spectrum of activities within the purview of a modern Electrical Engineer is extremely broad and is becoming in many arenas increasingly interdisciplinary in character. It embraces electrical and optical technologies, nanotechnologies and their diverse applications. The faculty in Electrical & Systems Engineering at Penn represents the major areas of EE. With many cross linkages with the faculties of the other departments in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, EE provides a diverse palate of exciting activity and opportunity. Here the student will find academic and research activity ranging across such fields as telecommunications, imaging, remote sensing, microelectronics and systems on a chip, information acquisition and processing, biologically inspired systems, image and speech processing, robotics, video coding, neural computation, self-organizing systems, electro-magnetics and photonics, electronic materials, and silicon micromechanics and nano-fluidics.
Critical for experimental research, the department’s Microfabrication Facility provides a key resource in which semi-conductor materials can be processed into various electronic and mechanical structures for both undergraduate and graduate research. Introductory electrical laboratory courses use the facilities of the EE Undergraduate Electronics Laboratory. This laboratory serves the laboratory needs of courses such as digital and analog electronics, microprocessor controlled instrumentation, digital signal processing and electromechanical dynamics. Also important for undergraduate experiments and research are VSLI and logic design workstations. Other research facilities include the complex media laboratory, the signal processing research laboratory, the electro-optics laboratory, the anechoic chamber, and radar and ultrasound imaging facilities.
Within this diverse spectrum of activity, the Electrical Engineering curriculum is designed to provide a strong foundation in the fundamentals, while providing substantial flexibility to the student to design a curriculum tailored to individual interests and needs. The individual program of study will be shaped by the student’s goal to specialize in some area in Electrical Engineering as a prelude to working in industry in that area, and to design a curriculum with an eye to preparing for further study at the graduate level. A degree in Electrical Engineering can be used as a stepping stone to go on to a career in business, finance, law, medicine, or government, as many recent Electrical Engineering graduates have done. Students are also prepared to succeed in graduate school at the master’s and PhD levels in electrical engineering.