Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering Department
Electrical Engineering
Program Educational Objectives
The program has identified short term and long term educational objectives.
Short-term objectives:
The following goals apply to graduates within years one to four following graduation.
- Reflecting their broad education in electrical engineering and the liberal arts, our graduates should be collectively employed or engaged in further study in a variety of fields and professions within and outside of electrical engineering.
- Our graduates should be productive members of society and of their professions.
- Our graduates should be able to articulate how their Union College education has prepared them to achieve their career and life goals.
Long-term objectives:
The following goals are added to those above for graduates five or more years after graduation.
- Our graduates should show evidence of career advancement or completion of academic studies.
- Our graduates should show evidence of life-long learning by having gained expertise in an area unfamiliar to them upon graduation.
- Our graduates should show evidence of professional recognition and continued professional development.
Student Outcomes
Graduates from the Electrical Engineering program will have
- an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
- an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
- an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability
- an ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
- an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
- an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
- an ability to communicate effectively
- the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
- a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
- a knowledge of contemporary issues
- an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice