Electrical Engineering / Bachelor of Science

Total Credit Hours: 133
Major Credit Hours: 90

Electrical engineers design devices and systems that transport, transform, and control electrical energy to accomplish tasks. From the hardly visible circuits that power today's mobile computing devices to the electrical grid that carries electricity across the country, electrical engineers design, build, test, and deploy circuits that operate at all these scales and for a tremendous variety of purposes. They develop solutions to problems that obey design, performance, and safety constraints, using their deep knowledge of mathematics and physics to optimize their innovations. Lewis University’s electrical engineering program focuses on the large-scale applications associated with the electric power grid, electric machinery, control systems, and power electronics, but the dependence of these applications on other areas of the field, including radio frequency interference, electromagnetism, and digital logic, means that graduates of this program will possess both the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to begin long, productive careers in the electrical engineering field.

Admission Requirements

Incoming first-year students must have a minimum ACT Math subscore of 25 or SAT Math subscore of 610 or be ready to enroll in Calculus 1 to be admitted to the Electrical Engineering program. Transfer students and students who are changing majors must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 and must be ready to enroll in Calculus 1. Prospective students wishing to be admitted to the program but who do not currently meet the requirements can be admitted under the Pre-Electrical and Computer Engineering Program. They can then apply for admission to the Electrical Engineering program once transfer admission requirements are met by contacting ece@lewisu.edu.

 

Degree Requirements

Program: BS-EECE-1

I. Engineering Foundations (41)

CHEM-11000	General Chemistry 1	4
CHEM-11100	General Chemistry 1 Lab	1
CPSC-21000	Programming Fundamentals	3
MATH-20900	Calculus 1	4
MATH-22000	Applied Probability and Statistics	3
MATH-23500	Calculus 2	4
MATH-25000	Calculus 3	4
MATH-30000	Differential Equations	3
MATH-30500	Linear Algebra	3
PHYS-21000	General Physics 1	3
PHYS-21100	General Physics 1 Lab	1
PHYS-21500	General Physics 2	3
PHYS-21600	General Physics 2 Lab	1
PHYS-21800	General Physics 3	3
PHYS-21900	General Physics 3 Lab	1

II. Electrical Engineering Core (37)

ECEN-10000	Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering	3
ECEN-20000	Engineering Design and Tools	3
ECEN-21000	Logic Design	3
ECEN-22000	Circuit Analysis I	4
ECEN-22100	Circuit Analysis II	3
ECEN-23000	Signals and Systems	3
ECEN-25000	Semiconductor Devices	3
ECEN-27000	Applied Electromagnetics	3
ECEN-35000	Electronic Circuits	3
ECEN-37000	Electromechanics	3
ECEN-37500	Control Systems	3
ECEN-38000	Electric Power Systems	3

III. Electrical Engineering Electives (6)

Select at least two courses from the following electives:

ECEN-30000	Computer Architecture 1	3
ECEN-31000	Computer Architecture 2	3
ECEN-32000	Hardware and Software Systems	3
ECEN-33000	Digital Communications	3
ECEN-33500	Digital Signal Processing	3
ECEN-34000	Introduction to VLSI Design	3
ECEN-41000	Artificial Intelligence	3
ECEN-45000	Robotics	3
ECEN-47500	Power Electronics	3
ECEN-48000	Renewable Energy Systems	3
ECEN-49800	Electrical and Computer Engineering Internship	1-3
PHYS-33100	Thermodynamics	3
PHYS-41100	Computational Electrodynamics	3

IV. Capstone (6)

ECEN-40000	Electrical and Computer Engineering Practice	3
ECEN-49600	Electrical and Computer Engineering Senior Project	3

V. Advanced Writing Requirement

The advanced writing requirement is satisfied within the major by taking ECEN 49600.