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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 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 DSP, FPGA, Xilinx ISE, VHDL, MAPLAP, provides integrative projects from fundamental digital logic design to emerging embedded computing system design. • The 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.
