Careers

Electrical engineering is an amazingly broad and rapidly growing field. Radar, sonar, lasers, medical imaging, optical communications, microchips, embedded computers, cell phones, autonomous robots, wireless communications, genomic automation - these areas of specialization represent just a fraction of our field.

Electrical engineers design all kinds of electronic and electric systems, from cell phones to electric power generators, from medical devices to satellite and aircraft systems. They develop improved human interfaces in hardware and software, and they build biologically inspired miniature machines and giant robots. Electrical engineers frequently advance in their careers through business, law, finance, and medicine, and many possess the communications and analytic skills to become managers, advisors to politicians, and public leaders.

In the Department of Electrical Engineering, faculty members work closely with local and national companies that often hire our students as summer interns in research and development groups. This experience enables many of our students to find immediate employment upon graduation.