Electrical Engineering

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A brick building, featuring a courtyard below it, on a cloudy winter day.
The Blake R. Van Leer Electrical and Computer Engineering Building. The Van Leer Interdisciplinary Design Commons can be seen on the left.

Electrical Engineering is a Bachelors of Science program at Georgia Tech, falling under the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and within the College of Engineering. It is a discipline of engineering dedicated to the study, design, and application of any device that uses electricity or electromagnetism. Electrical engineering is a remarkably broad field. Career paths exist in controls engineering, power engineering, microelectronics engineering, and signal processing. Exposure to concepts in computer science can also prepare electrical engineers for work more loosely connected to the field.

Student Body

A metal monument in the form of a bridge circuit, with the letters HKN at center.
The Eta Kappa Nu Bridge. A similar monument is present outside of the Van Leer Building.

Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering boasts over 1,400 undergraduate students, over 1,100 graduate students, over 20,000 alumni, and is ranked 5th in electrical engineering.[1] [2] Of 163 degrees awarded in the 2020-2021 academic year, 142 recipients were male with the remaining 21 being female.[3]

Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the national electrical engineering honors society, founded its Beta Mu chapter at Georgia Tech in 1904.[4] Juniors with a GPA of 3.5 or higher, seniors with a GPA of 3.4 or higher, and graduate students in good standing are eligible to join HKN.[5] The organization hosts numerous social, corporate, and service events throughout the school year.[6] Two scholarships, each of $1,000, are available to one undergraduate and one junior in fall and spring, respectively.

The Hive is a student-led organization within the Van Leer Interdisciplinary Design Commons.[7] The Hive provides students with a number of tools, including 3D printers, PCB fab, wood shop, laser cutters, and electronics stations.[8] In order to use these machines, students must register for the "shared user management system" (or "SUMS") and undergo machine specific training.[9] As a student-led organization, The Hive offers volunteer positions for "Peer Instructors," who staff The Hive while general users work within the makerspace.[10]

Georgia Tech IEEE, a chapter of IEEE, provides access to the largest professional society of electrical and computer engineers.[11] Georgia Tech chapter of IEEE offers weekly tutoring sessions for 2000 and 3000-level electrical engineering courses, including ECE2026 and ECE 3040.[12] Georgia Tech IEEE offers undergraduates experience and workshops in two teams, Innovation and Hardware. The Innovation Team focuses on microcontroller programming, PCB design, and application development. The Hardware Team focuses on design and fabrication of robots, including PCB design, microcontroller programming, CAD, and manufacturing.[13] Georgia Tech IEEE is sponsored by relevant companies and organizations within the electrical engineering community, including Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Northrop Grumman.[14]

Women in Electrical Engineering (or WECE) provides academic support, professional development, social events, and community outreach for female electrical engineers.[15] The organization was founded in Fall 2004 and is sponsored by companies like Cisco, 3M, and Qualcomm.[16]

Other relevant organizations include the Amateur Radio Club, the Black Graduate Student Organization, Engineers without Borders, the Invention Studio, HyTech Racing Team, RoboJackets, and Tau Beta Pi.


Degree Requirements

General Core [17]
Course Description
CHEM 1310 OR CHEM 1211K General Chemistry
CS 1301 Intro to Computing
MATH 1551, 1552, 2551 Differential, Integral, Multivariable Calculus
MATH 1554 Linear Algebra
MATH 2552 Differential Equations
PHYS 2211, 2212 Introductory Physics I and II
Science Elective 3 hours. [18]
APPH 1040/1050 Wellness
ENGL 1101, 1102 English Composition I, II
Humanities Elective 6 hours. [19]
History/Government Elective 3 hours. [20]
Economics Elective 3 hours. [21]
Social Sciences Elective 6 hours. [22]
Major Requirements [23]
Course Description
ECE 2026 Introduction to Signal Processing
ECE 2031 Digital Design Laboratory
ECE 2035 OR ECE 2036 Programming for Hardware/Software Systems OR Engineering Software Design
ECE 2040 Circuit Analysis
ECE 3025 Electromagnetics
ECE 3040 Microelectronic Circuits
ECE 3043 Measurements, Circuits, and Microelectronics Laboratory
ECE 3000/4000-level Elective 3 hours.
Culminating Senior Design 3 hours.
Free Electives 10-11 hours. Dependent on thread.

Threads

Electrical engineering offers threads, or specializations, in eight different areas.

These include:

  1. Signal & Information Processing
  2. Robotics & Autonomous Systems
  3. Telecommunications
  4. Electronic Devices
  5. Circuit Technology
  6. Bioengineering
  7. Electric Energy Systems
  8. Sensing and Exploration

Each thread offers further specializations. For instance, the Robotics & Autonomous Systems thread offers specializations in Sensing & Exploration, Electrical Energy Systems, and Telecommunications (among many others).

References

  1. ↑ https://www.ece.gatech.edu/
  2. ↑ https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/electrical-engineering-rankings
  3. ↑ https://lite.gatech.edu/
  4. ↑ https://hkn.ieee.org/hkn-chapters/all-chapters/beta-mu-chapter/
  5. ↑ http://hkn.gtorg.gatech.edu/howtojoin.html
  6. ↑ http://hkn.gtorg.gatech.edu/benefits.html
  7. ↑ https://hive.ece.gatech.edu/
  8. ↑ http://wiki.hive.ece.gatech.edu/doku.php
  9. ↑ http://wiki.hive.ece.gatech.edu/doku.php?id=pcb-training
  10. ↑ https://hive.ece.gatech.edu/getinvolved.html
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180923200517/http://pes.edu/ieee/ieee/
  12. ↑ https://ieee.gatech.edu/#tutoring
  13. ↑ https://ieee.gatech.edu/#resources
  14. ↑ https://ieee.gatech.edu/#sponsors
  15. ↑ http://www.wece.gtorg.gatech.edu/about-2/about/
  16. ↑ http://www.wece.gtorg.gatech.edu/sponsors/
  17. ↑ https://www.ece.gatech.edu/electrical-engineering-degree-requirements
  18. ↑ https://catalog.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/core-curriculum/core-area-d/
  19. ↑ https://catalog.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/core-curriculum/core-area-c/
  20. ↑ https://catalog.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/core-curriculum/constitution-history/
  21. ↑ https://catalog.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/core-curriculum/core-area-e/
  22. ↑ https://catalog.gatech.edu/academics/undergraduate/core-curriculum/core-area-e/
  23. ↑ https://catalog.gatech.edu/programs/signal-information-processing-robotics-autonomous-systems-electrical-engineering-bs/
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