Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a fast-changing and diversified discipline concerned with the analysis, design, and manufacture of a huge variety of devices, systems, and processes involving electricity. It deals with the transfer of electrical energy and information.
As the role of electronics expands in our society, so too does the field of electrical engineering. A career in electrical engineering might include micro electronics, computer systems, telecommunications systems, electrical power, and controls. Interdisciplinary areas like robotics can also be part of an electrical engineering career.
The work of electrical engineers can be seen in literally thousands of products, from power stations and antennas to telephone switches and computer systems, as well as the electrical systems that run home appliances, cars and oil rigs.
Technology changes at a breath-taking pace, and electrical engineers are the architects of many of those changes. With the growing reliance on electrical and electronic devices comes a great demand for individuals who can keep pace with this rapidly growing industry. If you want to be a part of solving practical engineering problems in this technological revolution, electrical engineering is the discipline for you.
Our comprehensive program will instruct you in circuit analysis, systems and signals, digital logic design, electronics, computer programming techniques, microprocessors, controls, electromagnetics, power, and telecommunications. In the early and middle terms you will take core electrical engineering subjects, such as analog electronics, systems and signals, electromechanical devices, control systems, and communications principles. At this time, you will also be introduced to advanced mathematics, electric machines, electromagnetic fields, and industrial control and instrumentation.
In recognition of the considerable diversity of careers available to electrical engineers, in the later terms you will be able to choose from a wide range of elective courses. These include computer networks, digital signal processing, power electronics, antennas, communications electronics, power system operation, control systems, and robotics.
You may also choose to pursue an offshore oil and gas engineering option in your last three terms of the program. This option includes courses like process control and instrumentation, reliability engineering, and supervisory control and data acquisition.
Engineering Program Organizational Chart
| Fall | Winter | Spring | |
| Year 1 | Engineering One * | ||
| Year 2 | Term 3 | Work Term | Term 4 |
| Year 3 | Work Term | Term 5 | Work Term |
| Year 4 | Term 6 | Work Term | Term 7 |
| Year 5 | Work Term | Term 8 | - |
* Students who complete the Engineering One requirements during the
first two semesters of Year One may undertake their first work term
during the Spring semester of that year.
Minor in Physics: Electrical Engineering - General Option
Program requirements for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Programs for Classes of 2010, 2011 and 2012
- General and Offshore Oil and Gas Engineering Options for Electrical Engineering
- General and Offshore Oil and Gas Engineering Options for Computer Engineering
Career Opportunities
Electrical engineering is a challenging and rewarding career. Our graduates work in diverse settings, from large high-tech companies to small start-up companies, power and telecommunications utilities, consulting industries and educational institutions.
Electrical
engineers find employment in:
• Communications, aerospace, medical, and manufacturing
industries
• Public utilities providing electrical power generation
• Oil and gas, pulp and paper, and mining industries