They have impacted lives and improved everyday uses of technology and learn to work with microcontrollers, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Digital Signal Processors (DSP), embedded Systems-On-a-Chip (SOC), embedded workstations, and distributed computing platforms and more.
Students in this major can apply to participate in a five-year combined bachelor's/master's degree program in electrical engineering technology.
The Purdue Polytechnic Institute is one of 10 academic colleges at Purdue University. The Polytechnic specializes in team-based labs where you’ll test ideas, take things apart and put them back together — only better. You’ll learn side-by-side with professors who have worked in the industry and thrive on combining theory, imagination and real-world application. In this innovative environment, you'll learn by doing - gaining deep technical knowledge and applied skills in your chosen discipline coupled with problem-solving, critical-thinking, communication and leadership skills employers desire.
Careers in Electrical Engineering Technology
- Applications engineer
- Biomedical engineer
- Communications engineer
- Controls engineer
- Design engineer
- Electrical engineer
- Microcomputer systems engineer
- Quality engineer
- Sales engineer
- Test engineer