Examples of career opportunities include development of new electrical or electronic devices, instruments or products; design of equipment or systems; production and quality control of electrical products for private industry or government; sales or management for a private firm or government; and teaching and research in a university.

Graduates attaining the electrical engineering (EE) BS degree will have comprehensive knowledge and experience in the concepts and design of electrical and electronic devices, circuits and systems. This is achieved through a sequence of required courses in these areas, culminating in a major design project incorporating realistic engineering constraints.

Moreover, graduates will have advanced, specialized knowledge and skills in elective areas such as communications and digital signal processing, control systems, analog and digital integrated circuit design, semiconductor devices and optoelectronics, electromagnetics and wireless systems, power electronics, renewable energy, bioelectronics and digital systems.

EE graduates will have attained other professional skills that will be useful throughout their careers, including verbal and written communication and the ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.

The EE curriculum is rich in laboratory work. EE graduates will have achieved extensive practical experience in the laboratory techniques, tools and skills that provide a bridge between theory and practice.