Electrical Engineering Program

Mission Statement:

The Electrical Engineering program provides students with a solid basis in electrical engineering and its underlying mathematics and science within the framework of a liberal arts education.  We prepare students for immediate professional employment, graduate study, and entry into related professions. We believe that the rigor and depth of an electrical engineering education combined with a broad study of the liberal arts provides an excellent background for students who wish to enter professions such as medicine, law, and business administration as well as engineering itself.  Through our required international component, our emphasis on undergraduate research, our flexible curriculum, and the personal attention that we give to each student, we educate well-rounded members of society who are prepared to excel in an increasingly multicultural and technological world.

Objectives:

  1. 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.

    1. Our graduates should be engaged professionally in positions that utilize the skills or abilities associated with broadly educated electrical engineers or in good academic standing in programs of graduate study.
    2. Collectively, our graduates should be employed or engaged in further study in a variety of fields and professions both within and outside of Electrical Engineering.
    3. Our graduates should be productive members of society and of their professions.
    4. 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.

    1. Our graduates should show evidence of career advancement or completion of academic studies.
    2. Our graduates should show evidence of life-long learning by having gained expertise in an area unfamiliar to them upon graduation.
    3. Our graduates should show evidence of professional recognition and continued professional development.