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