Program Overview
Electrical Engineering BSEE Program
The Electrical Engineering program at Drexel University is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in the field of electrical engineering. The program emphasizes the fundamentals of electrical engineering, hands-on learning, and flexibility in course selection to satisfy diverse career goals.
About the Program
Electrical engineers contribute to industry and research in diverse areas such as electronic circuits, lasers and photonics, semiconductor devices, computer and communication networks, wireless networks, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, machine learning, automation and control, and power and energy systems. The electrical engineering major emphasizes the fundamentals of electrical engineering, hands-on learning, and flexibility in course selection to satisfy diverse career goals.
Mission Statement
The ECE Department at Drexel University serves the public and the university community by providing superior career-integrated education in electrical and computer engineering; by conducting research in these fields, to generate new knowledge and technologies; and by promoting among all its constituents professionalism, social responsibility, civic engagement, and leadership.
Program Educational Objectives
The electrical engineering program educational objectives are that alumni, in their early years after graduation:
- Secure positions and continue as valued, creative, dependable, and proficient employees in a wide variety of fields and industries, in particular as electrical engineers
- Succeed in graduate and professional studies if pursued, such as engineering, science, law, medicine, and business
- Embrace and pursue lifelong learning for a successful and rewarding career
- Act as an ambassador for the field of engineering through clear, professional communication with technical and non-technical audiences, including the general public
- Accept responsibility for leadership roles in their profession, in their communities, and in the global society
- Contribute to their professional discipline's body of knowledge
- Function as responsible members of society with an awareness of the social and ethical ramifications of their work
Student Outcomes
The department's student outcomes reflect the skills and abilities that the curriculum is designed to provide to students by the time they graduate. These are:
- An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
- An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
- An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
- An ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of the engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
- An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
- An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
- An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies
Areas of Study
The program offers several areas of study, including:
- Electronics: The study of electronic and optical semiconductor devices; analog and digital electronic circuits; and generation, transmission, and reception of information both in optical and microwave frequency ranges and guided or free-space conditions.
- Power and Systems Control: The study of controls engineering and electric power engineering, including modeling, analysis, and control of dynamic systems, planning and optimization, electromechanical energy conversion, motor operation and control, transformers, power electronics, sensors, and actuators.
- Telecommunications and Digital Signal Processing (DSP): The study of the theory and technology of the transmission and processing of information-bearing signals, including core courses in electromagnetic propagation, communication devices and media, signal processing, analog and digital communication.
Degree Requirements
In addition to completing 181.5 credits, students majoring in Electrical Engineering must have a 2.0 cumulative overall GPA and a 2.0 cumulative GPA in their Electrical Engineering courses. The degree requirements include:
- General Education/Liberal Studies Requirements
- Foundation Requirements
- Mathematics Requirements
- Physics Requirements
- Professional Requirements
- Senior Design
- EE Core Elective
- ECE Electives
- Free Electives
Sample Plan of Study
The program offers several sample plans of study, including:
- 4-year, 1 co-op (Spring/Summer cycle)
- 4-year, 1 co-op (Fall/Winter cycle)
- 5-year, 3 co-op (Spring/Summer cycle)
- 5-year, 3 co-op (Fall/Winter cycle)
Co-op/Career Opportunities
Top co-op employers for electrical engineering majors include:
- PJM Interconnection LLC
- Exelon Corporation (PECO)
- Lockheed Martin
- Woodward McCoach, Inc.
- NAVSEA
- EwingCole
- Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc.
- Ametek, Inc.
- SAP America
- Comcast Corporation
- Susquehanna Int'l Group LLP
- L-3 Communications
- Philadelphia Department of Commerce
- Philadelphia Water Department
Accelerated/Dual Degrees
The program offers several accelerated and dual degree options, including:
- Dual Degree Bachelor's Program
- Bachelor's/Master's Accelerated Degree Program
Facilities
The program has access to several state-of-the-art facilities, including:
- Adaptive Signal Processing and Information Theory Research Group
- Bioimage Laboratory
- Data Fusion Laboratory
- Drexel Network Modeling Laboratory
- Drexel Power-Aware Computing Laboratory
- Drexel University Nuclear Engineering Education Laboratory
- Drexel VLSI Laboratory
- Drexel Wireless Systems Laboratory
- Ecological and Evolutionary Signal-processing and Informatics Laboratory
- Electric Power Engineering Center
- Electronic Design Automation Facility
- Microwave-Photonics Device Laboratories
- Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory
- NanoPhotonics Laboratory
- Opto-Electro-Mechanical Laboratory
- Plasma and Magnetics Laboratory
- Power Electronics Research Laboratory
- Testbed for Power-Performance Management of Enterprise Computing Systems
Program Level Outcomes
The program level outcomes are:
- Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
- Apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
- Communicate effectively with a range of audiences
- Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
- Function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
- Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
- Acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies
Electrical Engineering Faculty
The program has a diverse and experienced faculty, including:
- Fernand Cohen, PhD
- Kapil Dandekar, PhD
- Afshin Daryoush, ScD
- Bruce A. Eisenstein, PhD
- Adam K. Fontecchio, PhD
- Gary Friedman, PhD
- Allon Guez, PhD
- Leonid Hrebien, PhD
- Youngmoo Kim, PhD
- Karen Miu, PhD
- Bahram Nabet, PhD
- Gail L. Rosen, PhD
- P. Mohana Shankar, PhD
- Jonathan E. Spanier, PhD
- Matthew Stamm, PhD
- John Walsh, PhD
- Steven Weber, PhD
- Lifeng Zhou, PhD
Emeritus Faculty
The program has several emeritus faculty members, including:
- Tom Chmielewski, PhD
- Kevin J. Scoles, PhD