The Electrical Engineering Program offers Power and Electronics as areas of interest, including Communications and Controls under Electronics. It is a five-year program designed to develop the required knowledge and skills to face the dynamic technological environment of today’s society. Theoretical and practical experiences are combined throughout the program, using an adequate combination of socio-humanistic studies, mathematics, basic sciences, engineering science, and engineering design experience. The design experience in the Electrical Engineering curriculum begins at the second year with a basic introductory course to engineering design. This first design experience is focused towards the development of the student’s creativity, establishment of objectives, construction and testing of a problem’s solution. At this stage the students have little knowledge of the basic mathematics, basic sciences and engineering sciences. Some of the third year courses such as Dynamics, and Electronics I, have design content. Fourth year courses that contain design are Logic Circuits, Electronics II, Electronics Laboratory, and Automatic Controls. During the fourth and fifth year students are free to select 23 credit-hours from the department elective courses in their areas of interest and 6 credit-hours in any other department elective courses, for a total of 29 credit-hours (however, power engineering students must select all 23 credit-hours identified in technical elective list, see Undergraduate Catalog for curriculum component and sequence.) In their selection students are required to include courses that contain enough design experience so as to complete approximately 8 credit-hours. In their fifth year students must approve the Capstone Design I and Capstone Design II courses which are meant to be a final comprehensive design experience. Real life engineering problems from the industry and society are defined and solved, integrating into the process the fundamental elements of modern design theory and methodology, creativity, formulation of design problem statements and specifications, consideration of alternative solutions, open-ended problems, feasibility considerations, concurrent engineering, and detailed system description. The students set educational objectives in view of the main areas of Electrical Engineering subjects:

• Electronics, Controls and Communications Engineering- This area of interest prepares students for analog electronics, digital electronics, process control systems, and communications.
• Electric Power Engineering- This area of interest prepares students for planning and design of generation, transmission, distribution, and end user electrical system.

	Program Mission
	“To educate graduates with a broad background in computers, mathematics, science, and electrical engineering capable of performing successfully as electrical engineers and pursuing graduate studies.”