BSE-Engineering-Elec&Electron

Electrical Engineering is essential to modern society, driving innovation in fields of robotics, autonomous systems, health care, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence. Electrical Engineering has applications in almost all industries, such as communication, consumer, energy, infrastructure, health care, manufacturing, military, robotics, and transportation. Hence, students can find jobs in this vast array of industries.

Our ABET accredited curricula emphasize hands-on and project-based learning experience. Our students enjoy extracurricular research experience through numerous research projects, including but not limited to:

• Intelligent ground vehicle and micro-mouse

• Near-space ballooning payloads (through PA Space Grant Consortium-NASA)

• Hardware-in-the-loop flight simulator

• Internet-of-things (IoT)

• Smart sensors and smart antenna

• Intelligent healthcare devices

• Image and object recognition

• Smart grid

• Secured embedded systems, etc.

Program Educational Objectives

Our program integrates the Liberal Studies Core and emphasizes holistic student development in accordance with the mission of Gannon University. The program educational objectives, which leads to a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, are to produce graduates who:

1. Demonstrate professional ethics and personal values in daily and professional life that exercise informed literary and aesthetic judgments by leveraging diverse cultures and societies

2. Demonstrate teamwork and leadership qualities and/or attainment of leadership roles in a global work environment

3. Demonstrate technical competency in applying comprehensive engineering knowledge for their successful career in rapidly changing professional environment

4. Demonstrate passion for life-long learning through engaging in the rapidly changing and emerging areas of technology, and/or continued professional development

To achieve these objectives, the ECE Programs maintain a modern curriculum, well-qualified faculty, a strong advising system, and the state-of-the-art laboratories. The following laboratories are fully equipped and available for teaching and student projects.

• The Communications lab houses Gannon’s near-space ballooning team. It’s a modern facility for research in design, simulation, and implementation of communication systems and networks.

• The System Integration lab, equipped with industry-standard tools such as Cadence Pspice, NI-LabView, Matlab/Simulink, and PCB making station, offers hands-on experiments and projects in test and measurement, circuits, and electronics system design and integration.

• The Embedded Software lab, equipped with electronic-hardware development tools for DSP, FPGA, Xilinx ISE, and VHDL, provides integrative projects from fundamental digital logic design to emerging embedded computing system design.

• he Electric Drives and Renewable Energy lab consists of platforms for integration of wind and solar power into electrical systems, advanced HiTL digital control of electric drives, power electronics technology, and real-time simulator.

• The Senior Design lab, facilitated with 3D printers, a state-of-the art PCB maker, and a mini-electronic vehicle platform, is for students to test and implement their project designs.

The close partnership with local engineering industry allows for inputs from experts for our current and new course offerings. It also provides students with opportunities for internship, co-ops, and full-time employment upon graduation. Our graduates are prepared to play an important role in emerging new fields, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and internet of things; to hold challenging positions in medical and healthcare industry, aerospace, nuclear, automotive, railway, petroleum, as well as computers, electronics, communications, renewable energy, robotics, and other electrical industries.

The Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the General Criteria and the Electrical Engineering Program Criteria.

Electrical Engineering students are required to complete a total of 124-125 credits depending on their technical option for the BS degree. This includes 30 credits of Liberal Studies Core composed of humanities and social science, 31 or 37 credits of basic science and math, and 63 or 58 credits of engineering courses.

There are two technical options in Electrical Engineering. These are Electrical and Electronics Option (described here) and Bioelectrical Engineering Option (see program). The freshmen year is the same for both options. Students should select one of the two options by the beginning of their sophomore year. The student can switch options, but this may require additional coursework.

A five-year Electrical Engineering cooperative program is available. Student must meet the same requirements for the four-year program, plus spend a minimum of three co-op semesters in industry.