ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING

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Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/ equal opportunity employer.

Since 1885, we have offered educational excellence in beautiful Upper Michigan. Our students create the future in arts, humanities, and social sciences; business and economics; computing; engineering; forestry and environmental science; natural and physical sciences; and technology.

E L E C T R I C A L & C O M P U T E R E N G I N E E R I N G

Michigan Technological University

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering 121 Electrical Energy Resources Center

1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 49931-1295 T: 906-487-2550 F: 906-487-2949 E: [email protected]

www.ece.mtu.edu

C R E AT E T H E F U T U R E

D I S C OV E R . D E S I G N . D E L I V E R .

W H Y C H O O S E M I C H I G A N T E C H ?

aunch yourself into our

high-tech world. With ECE you can

energize the planet, advance

communication, and create

technology to help others in

meaningful ways.

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E L E C T R I C A L & C O M P U T E R E N G I N E E R I N G

www.ece.mtu.edu

C R E AT E T H E F U T U R E

D I S C OV E R . D E S I G N . D E L I V E R .

W H Y C H O O S E M I C H I G A N T E C H ?

Electrical engineers and computer engineers use electrical and/or optical energy to manipulate, store and transmit information—and to deliver power to the entire world. Both fields evolve at lightning speed, so fasten your space seatbelt and get ready to shape the future through the exciting world of high tech.

Explore Many Possibilities

You can focus on a wide variety of challenges with ECE—everything from creating green energy solu-tions to discovering new galaxies. Opportunities for innovation abound. A few examples include: n Robotic systems and lasers for medical surgeries

n Voice-activated control systems for computers, cars, and more n Modern, high-speed rail trans-portation

n Nanotechnology in semiconduc-tors, transissemiconduc-tors, and microchips n Smart grids for next-generation energy systems

There are many excellent reasons to choose ECE at Michigan Tech. Here are just a few…

Friendly Learning Environment

We offer all the advantages of a large engineering program in a small-college atmosphere. Faculty and staff are easily accessible and enjoy mentoring students.

Excellent Faculty

Courses in our department are taught by faculty who are nationally recognized for their contributions to engineering education, research, and practice.

State-of-the-Art Facilities

Our multimillion-dollar labs provide a hands-on learning experience. You’ll enjoy cutting-edge equip-ment—from lasers, microprobes and robots to anechoic chambers and more—along with industry standard software and current generation computer systems.

Unique Lab Curriculum

We have strategically integrated our key courses with labs that will lead you to discover for yourself the basic principles that govern the field.

Industry Experience

Participate in Senior Design, Enterprise, internships, and co-ops— our excellent programs give you a chance to work directly with indus-try while you’re still a student.

Sustainable Future

Our students contribute to the advancement of green, renewable, and alternative energy, including solar and wind power, hybrid power, and more.

Global Opportunities

Our students have studied in Norway, Australia, Germany, Italy, Finland, Denmark, England, Russia, Scotland, Korea, and the developing world.

aunch yourself into our

high-tech world. With ECE you can

energize the planet, advance

communication, and create

technology to help others in

meaningful ways.

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E L E C T R I C A L & C O M P U T E R E N G I N E E R I N G

www.ece.mtu.edu

C R E AT E T H E F U T U R E

D I S C OV E R . D E S I G N . D E L I V E R .

W H Y C H O O S E M I C H I G A N T E C H ?

Explore Many Possibilities

Friendly Learning Environment

Excellent Faculty

State-of-the-Art Facilities

Unique Lab Curriculum

Industry Experience

Sustainable Future

Global Opportunities

aunch yourself into our

high-tech world. With ECE you can

energize the planet, advance

communication, and create

technology to help others in

meaningful ways.

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Electrical engineers lead the way in communications, signal processing, electronics, computing, and control. They also design the systems that generate and distribute reliable electrical power to us all.

Here at Michigan Tech, you’ll work with electricity in its many forms— from electrons to large-scale mag-netic fields. You’ll start your courses with an introduction to the digital world, learning techniques vital to digital audio and video processing, and computer systems.

Working as an electrical engineer, you could devise ways to take energy from turbines, fuel cells, hydroelectric plants, and solar panels and transfer it to homes, factories, and businesses.

You could design components that move digital information from place to place, provide efficient and safe power delivery to a community grid, create a hybrid vehicle that gets 1,000-plus miles per gallon, or develop sensors to detect IEDs— improvised explosive devices.

Photonics

We offer a concentration in pho-tonics—an exciting area of EE that deals with optical energy. Photons replace electrons as the conveyor of information. You may find yourself producing holograms, designing vision sensors for a robot, or imag-ing techniques for outer space.

Senior Design

It takes teamwork to bring creative ideas to life. Throughout your senior year, you can work with a small team of fellow students on a project in collaboration with industry. The experience is more like a “first job” than a “last class”. Recent projects include:

n Radar communications hardware emulator

n Solar-powered charging device for electric vehicles

n Remote synchronization of a smart power grid

n Remote-control system for a heavy-duty truck

Enterprise

Join an Enterprise team and get the extra edge on your education. Solve real-world engineering, design, and communication problems. Develop marketing, business, and leadership skills. Teams are open to students from all majors, and operate like companies in the private sector. We host four enterprise teams, but you can choose from 28 across campus. Blue Marble Security (BMS) Secures the future through thoughtful use of technology. Integrated Microsystems (IME) Integrates sensors and

microcontrollers.

Wireless Communication (WCE) Creates wireless, optical, and biomedical solutions.

Automotive Computing (ACE) Develops innovative computers for tomorrow’s automobiles.

Undergraduate Research

Cutting-edge research isn’t just for graduate students. You, too, can gain valuable experience working with a faculty mentor. One recent project involved the creation of a wireless sensor network for the Pierre Auger Northern Observatory in southeastern Colorado.

To keep pace with the explosive growth in computing technology, the world needs computer engi-neers who can work comfortably on both sides of the gap between digital hardware and software. Here at Michigan Tech, you’ll gain plenty of real experience doing exactly what computer engineers do best: end-to-end design and integration of complete systems— both the hardware and the soft-ware. By the time you graduate, your ability to work on “both sides” will enable you to conceive entire systems from scratch.

Working as a computer engineer, you may specialize in one area, such as embedded systems, com-puter networks, robotics, or VLSI system design. You may also find yourself working with other engi-neering disciplines—for example, teaming up with civil engineers to design software to test the stress points in a bridge or with mechani-cal engineers to power a satellite launch.

Computer engineering projects range from designing nanotechnol-ogy for bionic implants to inventing software that detects brain tumors much earlier, from creating special effects for the movies to predict-ing the strength of earthquakes through computer simulation.

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Make A World Of Difference

Many of our students get involved with meaningful projects happening right here on campus, including a wireless brain wave sensor device (EEG) for children; an interactive walker for disabled toddlers; and the WINGS navigation project for blind skiers. One student traveled to Ghana with Michigan Tech’s Pavlis Institute, bringing computers to rural schools for the very first time.

Professional Success

ECE graduates have a job placement rate of 98 percent within six months of graduation. Companies seeking our graduates include US Steel, Raytheon Missile Systems, Georgia Pacific, Bechtel, Rockwell-Collins, Caterpillar, Kimberly-Clark, GE Aviation, Google, GM, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Hitachi GST, Honeywell, Consumers Power, Westinghouse, Unisys, Motorola, Texas Instruments, and Wisconsin Electric, among many others. Some students find employment in US government agencies, while others choose military service through ROTC programs. Many go on to graduate study in engineering or other fields.

FIND OUT MORE

Please feel free to get in touch. We look forward to hearing from you. Judy Donahue, Academic Advisor ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING 131 Electrical Energy Resources Center T: 906-487-2232 E: [email protected]

www.ece.mtu.edu

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F I N D O U T M O R E

E X T R A E L E C T I V E S

Senior Design

During your senior year,

you’ll have the chance to work

with a small team of students on

a senior design project.

Your team will connect with

an industry sponsor through an

open-ended design project that

will provide you with the kind of

experience that can launch

a successful career.

D80 Center

Many challenges confront our

planet’s inhabitants, particularly

the 80 percent not typically

considered by those creating

infrastructure, goods and

services. Everyone must play a

role in elevating the quality of

life for all while ensuring future

generations can thrive. This

starts with the courage to

serve others, and the ability to

envision new solutions.

Michigan Tech’s D80 Center

provides education, service and

research opportunities for

students interested in gaining

valuable professional experience

while making a difference in

the lives of others. For more info

on all the D80 programs check

out the D80 Center online at

www.d80.mtu.edu.

Lots of options

As a BSE student, you will have

approximately nineteen elective

credits. This will provide you

with a great deal of flexibility

to pursue studies that reflect

your own interests.

Elective credits must be used

to complete a coherent program

of study, such as the completion

of a minor or certificate.

Michigan Tech offers more

than fifty different minors and

eighteen different certificate

programs. Earning a minor or

certificate involves taking a

prescribed set of courses in a

discipline or sub-discipline.

Create your own course of study

Can’t find a minor or certificate

program that fits your career

goals? You can work with a

faculty advisor to define a

personalized course of study.

Senior Design

It takes teamwork to bring creative ideas to life. Throughout your senior year, you can work with a small team of fellow students on a project in collaboration with industry. The experience is more like a “first job” than a “last class”. Recent projects include:

 Radar communications hardware emulator

 Solar-powered charging device for electric vehicles

 Remote synchronization of a smart power grid

 Remote-control system for a heavy-duty truck

Enterprise

Join an Enterprise team and get the extra edge on your education. Solve real-world engineering, design, and communication problems. Develop marketing, business, and leadership skills. Teams are open to students from all majors, and operate like companies in the private sector. We host four enterprise teams, but you can choose from 28 across campus. Blue Marble Security (BMS) Secures the future through thoughtful use of technology. Integrated Microsystems (IME) Integrates sensors and

microcontrollers.

Wireless Communication (WCE) Creates wireless, optical, and biomedical solutions.

Automotive Computing (ACE) Develops innovative computers for tomorrow’s automobiles

Undergraduate Research

Cutting-edge research isn’t just for graduate students. You, too, can gain valuable experience working with a faculty mentor. One recent project involved the creation of a wireless sensor network for the Pierre Auger Northern Observatory in southeastern Colorado.

Come See Us

T

here is no substitute for

seeing first-hand what

Michigan Tech has to offer.

We invite you to visit our

campus and tour the

engineering departments.

Call 888-688-1885

to set things up.

Advising

Our academic advisor meets

with future students to map out

academic choices and career

development. Please feel free to

get in touch. We look forward to

hearing from you.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Engineering Fundamentals

112 Dillman Hall

T: 906-487-3057

E: [email protected]

www.bse.mtu.edu

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Photonics

Senior Design

Enterprise

microcontrollers.

Undergraduate Research

E L E C T R I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G

C O M P U T E R E N G I N E E R I N G

Make A World Of Difference

Professional Success

FIND OUT MORE

www.ece.mtu.edu

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Photonics

Senior Design

Enterprise

microcontrollers.

Undergraduate Research

E L E C T R I C A L E N G I N E E R I N G

C O M P U T E R E N G I N E E R I N G

Make A World Of Difference

Professional Success

FIND OUT MORE

www.ece.mtu.edu

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