Program Overview

Artificial Intelligence Option - Electrical Engineering BS

Overview

RIT’s artificial intelligence option in electrical engineering provides students with the skills needed to design intelligent agents that can advance society.

Why Study RIT’s Artificial Intelligence Option in Electrical Engineering BS

• Dynamic Courses: Explore the foundations of artificial intelligence, biorobotics, and cybernetics.
• Multidisciplinary Senior Design: Engage in a capstone learning experience that focuses on developing, implementing, or advancing different aspects of artificial intelligence.
• STEM-OPT Visa Eligible: The STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows full-time, on-campus international students on an F-1 student visa to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years after graduation.

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has produced significant innovations that impact our everyday lives. From autonomous vehicles, smart assistants, and automated financial investing, to smart cities, health care, and logistics; AI has laid the foundation to push human civilization forward. The AI option provides students with the theoretical and practical skills necessary to design ethical intelligent agents that will continue to advance our society. This option is part of the electrical engineering BS.

The AI option has a programming-focused curriculum that allows students to study how agents can:

• Solve complex problems
• Make inferences and decisions
• Learn from data (classical and deep learning)
• Evolve over time

This course work is enhanced by understanding the ethical implications and societal impacts of designs.

Courses in Artificial Intelligence in Electrical Engineering

The artificial intelligence option includes three core courses that cover the foundations of artificial intelligence. These courses cover:

• An introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning topics with practical examples of data, tools, and algorithms. Students will understand basic artificial intelligence techniques and their applications to engineering problems.
• Explore the history of artificial intelligence and its development over the years, and investigate various artificial intelligence techniques, along with their applications and limitations.
• Investigate cybernetics and aspects of robotics and controls associated with applications of a biological nature.

Students may select additional AI elective courses that cover topics such as:

• Pattern recognition
• Machine learning
• Digital signal processing
• Deep learning
• Principles of robotics
• Advanced robotics

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Multidisciplinary Senior Design is a two-course sequence in the final year of study. It’s a capstone learning experience integrating engineering theory, principles, and processes in a collaborative team environment. Multidisciplinary student teams follow an engineering design process, which includes assessing customer needs, developing engineering specifications, generating and evaluating concepts, choosing an approach, completing systems and subsystems designs, and implementing the design to the extent feasible, for example, by building and testing a prototype or implementing a chosen set of improvements to a process. Students will apply the knowledge they have learned in the classroom and from their co-op experiences to this design project. Students in the AI option are expected to work on a design project that focuses on developing, implementing, or advancing different aspects of artificial intelligence.

Careers and Cooperative Education

Cooperative Education

What’s different about an RIT education? It’s the career experience students gain by completing cooperative education and internships with top companies in every single industry. Students will earn more than a degree. They will gain real-world career experience that sets them apart.

Co-ops and internships take students’ knowledge and turn it into know-how. Engineering co-ops will provide hands-on experience that enables students to apply their engineering knowledge in professional settings while making valuable connections between classwork and real-world applications.

All engineering majors are required to complete four blocks (48 weeks) of cooperative education experience. For students in the artificial intelligence option, their co-ops are expected to take place in companies that develop or integrate AI into their products or services. A sampling of companies where RIT students have completed co-ops related to artificial intelligence includes Amazon, Apple, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Tesla, Argo AI, and more.

Admissions and Financial Aid

This program is STEM designated when studying on campus and full time.

This option is part of the electrical engineering BS. Please visit the degree program page for admission requirements.

Financial Aid and Scholarships

100% of all incoming first-year and transfer students receive aid.

RIT’s personalized and comprehensive financial aid program includes scholarships, grants, loans, and campus employment programs. When all these are put to work, students’ actual cost may be much lower than the published estimated cost of attendance.

Facilities

• Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (CLaSP) lab)