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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING (ECE) LIN ZHAO, Ph.D., Chairperson FACULTY: Professor Emeritus: Mehmet Cultu, Professors: Fong Mak, Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Wookwon Lee, Lin Zhao. Associate Professor: Yong-Kyu Jung. Assistant Professor: Ahmed Abuhussein. Teaching Assistant Professor: Donald MacKellar The faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department strive to encourage and guide students to build technical competency, effective communication, leadership skills, and entrepreneurial enthusiasm; to help our students find and secure their future careers; and most importantly to empower them with the passion of life-long learning and a spirit of excellency. We expect our students to excel as engineers and leaders in their professional field. The Electrical and Computer Engineering department offers the following programs: • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering – described below • Accelerated 5-year B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering – described below • Bachelor of Science in Cyber Engineering – described under Cyber Engineering In conjunction with the Computer and Information Science Department, ECE supports the following program: • Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity – described under Cybersecurity
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 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 and 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
