Computer Engineering Option - Electrical Engineering BS

This option is part of the electrical engineering BS program.

Computing Engineering BS vs. Computer Engineering Option

What’s the difference between the computer engineering BS degree and the computer engineering option in electrical engineering BS degree? Learn more about the similarities and the differences between these two closely related fields.

Students in the computer engineering option of the electrical engineering BS learn to design using hardware description languages, verify through simulation, and physically implement and test custom digital circuits and systems, including computer systems. Furthermore, they learn how to configure and use analog and mixed-signal circuits. All of these are essential components of microcontrollers, which in turn are used in application-specific and embedded systems. Great emphasis is placed on the hardware-software interface through the coverage of high-level and assembly programming languages in the two computer programming courses they take, which are tailored toward electrical engineering. In addition, they will study digital signal processing, radiation and propagation, power electronics, control systems, communications, circuit theory, computer architecture, computer-aided design, embedded systems, solid-state devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMs), and robotics.

Computer Engineering Option in Electrical Engineering BS

Students in the computer engineering option of electrical engineering BS learn how to:

• Design using hardware description languages
• Verify through simulation
• Physically implement and test custom digital circuits and systems, including computer systems
• Configure and use analog and mixed-signal circuits

Great emphasis is placed on the hardware-software interface through the coverage of high-level and assembly programming languages in the two computer programming courses required, which are tailored toward electrical engineering.

In addition, you will study:

• Digital signal processing
• Radiation and propagation
• Power electronics
• Control systems
• Communications
• Circuit theory
• Computer architecture
• Computer-aided design
• Embedded systems
• Solid-state devices
• Microelectromechanical systems (MEMs)
• Robotics

Advanced Elective Courses for Computer Engineering Option in Electrical Engineering BS

The computer engineering option includes advanced elective courses designed to provide a depth of understanding in computer engineering as it relates to electrical engineering. You’ll take courses in:

• Digital systems
• Embedded systems design
• Design of digital systems
• Design of computer systems

Multidisciplinary Senior Design

Multidisciplinary Senior Design is a two-course sequence in your final year of study. It’s a capstone learning experience that integrates engineering theory, principles, and processes within 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. You’ll apply the knowledge you have learned in the classroom and from your co-op experiences to this design project. Students in the computer engineering option are expected to work on a design project that focuses on embedded systems.