The focus of the Department of Electrical Engineering is to provide excellent education in modern electrical engineering practice. Our graduates are uniquely qualified for rewarding and successful careers in a diverse range of electrical engineering fields, including materials, devices, circuits, digital systems, signal/speech/image processing, and communications.
The Program Educational Objectives and newly developed measurements associated with each one is listed below:
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A successful long-lived engineering career. Measurement: The percentage of our graduates still working as engineers 5 years after graduation
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Meeting the needs of local industry Measurement: The percentage of our graduates receiving job offers from the top twenty (20) local engineering firms
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Leading engineering teams Measurement: The percentage of our graduates lead engineering design team supervising two or more engineers in a designing effort within five (5) years after graduation
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Actively use engineering skills to mentor and promote the engineering profession in populations still underrepresented in it. Measurement: The percentage of our graduates involved in such activities within five (5) years after graduation
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Actively pursuing lifelong learning Measurement: The percentage of our graduates either attending graduate school or taking additional college level course work to enhance their skills 5 years after graduation
Mission of the Telecommunications Engineering (TE) Program
The focus of the Telecommunications Engineering degrees is to provide excellent education in modern communications networks and systems. Our graduates are trained in a variety of subfields of telecommunication engineering at the systems level. This prepares them for rewarding and successful careers in telecommunications, data communications, network architecture, wireless, optical networking and next generation networks.
TE Undergraduate Program Educational Goals
The broad Goal statement agreed upon by the TE Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) is:
"The focus of UTD's Telecommunications Engineering degrees is to provide excellent education in modern communications networks and systems. Our graduates shall be uniquely qualified to apply traditional engineering design and problem solving skills in modern telecommunications.”
TE Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) also agreed upon with the IAB are:
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Preparation for a successful, long lived, engineering career
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Perform, review and assess sophisticated engineering design and manufacturing
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Further the necessities of innovation, functionality, safety, and economy in engineering
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Critical thinking, decision making and communicating
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Ability to contribute and to lead engineering teams
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Place engineering design and decision making in a market and societal context
EE and TE Undergraduate Program Outcomes
The EE and TE Programs have chosen our program outcomes to correspond exactly to the Outcome requirements of ABET's Criterion 3 because these are excellent indicators of what today’s engineering students require for a successful career.
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An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering
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An ability to design and construct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
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An ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs
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An ability to function on interdisciplinary teams
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An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems
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An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
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An ability to communicate effectively
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The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering in a global and societal context
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A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
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A knowledge of contemporary issues
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An ability to use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
