Program Overview

Electrical Engineering Degree

Overview

The Electrical Engineering program at UNT offers a hands-on, project-oriented education for the development of state-of-the-art electrical/electronic/embedded systems by integrating theoretical concepts and practical insights. Students are well-prepared for industry through semester-long projects executed every semester, following an engineering product life cycle involving various stages from requirement and functional specifications, through design to testing.

Program Details

• Degree Type: Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
• Format: On Campus
• Estimated Time to Complete: 4+ years
• Credit Hours: 128

Why Earn an Electrical Engineering Degree?

The department houses several state-of-the-art instructional and research laboratories that provide practical and advanced hands-on experiences. These include:

• Analog/Mixed-Signal Design and Simulation Laboratory
• Autonomous Systems Laboratory
• Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory
• Embedded Sensing & Processing Systems Laboratory
• Environmental and Ecological Engineering Laboratory
• Optimization, Signal Processing, and Control Algorithm Research Laboratory
• Power Electronics and Renewable Laboratory

Working closely with faculty members, students can conduct groundbreaking research in a wide range of areas from artificial intelligence to data fusion and very-large-scale integration design. Faculty members are experienced and skilled scholars and researchers who have helped students earn prestigious scholarships from NASA's Aeronautics Scholarship Program, which includes two years of financial support and a summer internship at a NASA research center.

Marketable Skills

• Identify and solve engineering problems
• Design and conduct experiments
• Engage in life-long learning
• Design with realistic constraints
• Teamwork

Electrical Engineering Degree Highlights

• Active learning emphasizes the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in future careers.
• The department's design projects are part of the coursework, helping students learn creative, bleeding-edge solutions to address today's engineering opportunities.
• Opportunities to conduct research, give presentations, and publish articles in academic journals.
• Collaborating with faculty and graduate students, undergraduate researchers work with advanced equipment in new facilities at Discovery Park.
• Excellent opportunities to receive scholarships, assistantships, and industrial internships.
• Coursework features "learning-to-learn" experiences in projects taught jointly by industry and university personnel.

What Can You Do With a Degree in Electrical Engineering?

Graduates will have the basic experimental, design, and communication skills needed either to continue on to the graduate level or to pursue careers in an extremely diverse field, including government and industrial sectors, with job responsibilities in research, design, development, and operations.

Electrical engineers work in companies that are developing:

• Computers
• Semiconductor integrated circuits and devices
• Telecommunications systems
• Aerospace and aviation systems
• Imaging techniques
• Sensors
• Wireless networks

Electrical Engineering Degree Courses

• Digital Logic Design (3 hrs): Topics include history and overview; switching theory; combinational logic circuits; modular design of combinational circuits; memory elements; sequential logic circuits; digital system design; and fault models and testing.
• Engineering Electromagnetics (3 hrs): Students learn electromagnetic theory as applied to electrical engineering, including vector calculus; electrostatics and magnetostatics; Maxwell’s equations, including Poynting’s theorem and boundary conditions; uniform plane-wave propagation; transmission lines – TEM modes, including treatment of general, lossless line and pulse propagation; introduction to guided waves; introduction to radiation and scattering concepts.
• Introduction to Electrical Engineering (3 hrs): Learning to Learn (L2L) is based on sound cognitive and pedagogical techniques that improve learning outcomes and make lifelong learning habitual. Students develop an understanding of how engineering is learned and how they can facilitate and develop the lifelong learning process, both individually and in teams.
• Analog and Digital Circuit Design Project (3 hrs): Students learn to use basic electrical engineering lab equipment, to build and test simple circuits in the lab, and to design and analyze circuits using CAD software tools. Includes simulation and design experiments and a final comprehensive design project to complement the circuit analysis course.
• Modern Communication System Design Project (3 hrs): Students are required to design electronic communication systems with electronic devices such as MOS transistors, capacitors, and resistors. Topics include LC circuits and oscillators, AM modulation, SSB communications, and FM modulation.
• Signals and Systems (3 hrs): Topics include elementary concepts of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems; linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, impulse response, convolution, Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and frequency-domain analysis of LTI systems; and Laplace transforms, z-transforms, and rational function descriptions of LTI systems.