Electrical Engineering Program Objectives

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Program educational objectives express the knowledge and skills that graduates of the program should progressively develop to a significant extent in the first three to five years after graduation. The current objectives for the Electrical Engineering program are shown below.

• Graduates will achieve professional distinction and personal satisfaction in careers that make use of their education, experience and abilities.
• Graduates will cultivate effective communication and collaboration skills in diverse interdisciplinary environments while taking on increasing levels of responsibility and leadership.
• Graduates will attain high standards of ethical behavior and social responsibility while inspiring their colleagues to do likewise.
• Graduates will pursue intellectual growth by joining and participating in professional societies, earning advanced degrees, achieving licensure in their professions and engaging in ongoing self-directed learning.

Members of the program’s industrial advisory committee are the caretakers of the objectives and act on behalf of graduates and employers of graduates to ensure that these objectives properly express the competencies expected of developing engineers.

The objectives are reviewed yearly at a meeting of the advisory committee and the faculty. Current students in the program, the University administration, and the Board of Trustees provide input to this review process by completing periodic surveys. In this manner, the needs of all program constituents are considered, and the objectives remain relevant to all stakeholders.