Electrical Engineering
Overview
The skills to design and build complex electrical systems are in high demand because electricity is so involved in our daily lives, from texting a friend on your smart phone, to driving your car across town, to using the refrigerator, oven or microwave. At SIUE, electrical engineering students study the fundamentals and learn practical hands-on skills in well-equipped modern laboratories for computation, simulation, prototyping and measurement.
Electrical engineering is a rapidly evolving field; our students build an awareness of global, social, ethical, economic, and environmental issues that are relevant to the systems they learn to design and build.
What can I do with a degree in electrical engineering?
Graduates of the fully accredited electrical engineering program work in application areas that include:- Space exploration and remote sensing
- Satellite, radar, and weather monitoring and forecasting systems
- Industrial process control and automation
- Automatic control systems for robotics, aircraft, medical devices, and manufacturing plants
- Power electronics and power systems for electric vehicles and charging stations
- Electric power generation and distribution, and environmentally responsible generation and use of energy
- Audio-, video- and data-communication systems, and satellite communications
- Artificial intelligence and digital processing of audio, video, and speech data using computers
- Lasers and optical instrumentation and sensing
- Healthcare applications including medical imaging, medical devices, and computer-aided diagnosis and treatment
Accreditation
The electrical engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABETFaculty
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