What is an Electrical Engineering degree?

Whether you want to invent and patent new technologies, design laser scanning systems or engineer electronic solutions to modern problems, you can get there with a electrical engineering degree from Florida Tech. Here, you'll develop a strong background in engineering and get hands-on experience in software simulation and analysis.

Our electrical engineering degree program is dynamic and focused. You'll get started right away, taking core courses like Digital Logic and Computer Design as a freshman. Guided by highly accomplished faculty who care about your success, you'll hone your strengths and begin specializing as early as sophomore year.

New technical electives allow you to specialize your electrical engineering degree in unique career-track sub-fields such as systems engineering, nuclear technology and energy engineering, making you a hot prospect in the eyes of future employers.

Advantages

Why Florida Tech:

• Hands-on from day one
• Freshman courses include building and testing computers
• Lab component to nearly all computer engineering classes
• Capstone student design experience
• Countless co-op, internship and job opportunities
• Located amidst the nation's 4th largest high-tech work force
• One word: LASERS

Facilities: The F.W. Olin Engineering Complex has three levels linked by the latest electronic and communications technology which promotes cross-functional learning. A 142-seat multimedia auditorium and 26 specialized research and teaching laboratories support multiple departments within the College of Engineering. A fixture of the F.W. Olin Engineering Complex is the A-frame teaching laboratory, a configuration that promotes cooperative learning by design. Most ECE courses and laboratories are held in the F.W. Olin Engineering Complex, a technology-based multi-million dollar building with the latest in multimedia and information technology. The building houses six advanced teaching labs and multimedia auditorium, providing students with a high-tech environment outfitted with the instruments and equipment they will encounter in the workplace.
Learning

Clubs and Organizations: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,Society of Women Engineers,Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers,Society of Manufacturing Engineers,National Society of Black Engineers

Research: Electrical engineering degree majors have many opportunities to undertake challenging and exciting research. As part of their senior design projects, students have:

• Automated object detection and perception, segmentation, texture analysis, noise reduction, edge detection, computer imaging, modeling and other areas of image analysis
• Investigated the use of devices embedded directly into an individual antenna element to provide control of the far-field phase of the antenna
• Explored a design methodology and collection of computer algorithms that are intended for incorporation in a specific software program for a given application
• Done photonic research on fiber-optic sensors and communications systems, laser radar and remote sensing, and laser scanning for robot vision
• Designed high-performance computing applications such as optimized software-engineered computer communications between computer subsystems

Future Outcomes

Outcomes - Career and Salary: Whether as student interns or recent graduates, students with an electrical engineering degree or computer engineering degree go to work for companies such as: Florida Solar Energy Center Harris Corp. IBM Lockheed Martin Microsoft Corp NASA GE-Harris The Boeing Company Rockwell Collins Software Productivity Solutions