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Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

The Electrical Engineering program is entirely focused on the success of our undergraduate students. With no graduate program, all our facilities and faculty time is devoted to helping our select students develop a strong foundation for a successful career. As an aeronautical university we give special emphasis to aerospace applications of electrical engineering and as an accredited EE degree program the education we provide ensures that our graduates are fully qualified to enter many applications fields in the electrical engineering profession.

Our Graduates

Many of our graduates go on to graduate school after completing their degree here while many others accept one of several job offers from industry. It is not uncommon for our graduates to have several attractive job offers by the time they graduate. Hundreds of our graduates are setting the agenda for commercial and military aviation, and the exploration of space in various government and industrial organizations. They are designing the surveillance, communication, navigation, and defense systems that keep the peace, assure the safety of the flying public, and explore the frontiers of the universe.

Educated and Experienced Faculty

Our faculty boasts the highest academic credentials from top universities, as well as years of design and management experience in the practice of electrical engineering. More specifically the department full time faculty has a combined industrial experience of more than 150 years and academic experience of more than 130 years among them. This ratio is high by university engineering college standards and suggests a somewhat more practice oriented program than one finds at other institutions. Our faculty members are experts at combining practical experience with the rigorous theoretical foundations you'll need to rise to the top of this elite profession.

Modern Classrooms and Laboratories

Our well-equipped classrooms and modern laboratories include the most advanced educational technologies and will stimulate your thinking skills. You'll find yourself eager to attend class every day, and will quickly understand why our retention, graduation, and placement rates rank with the best of our peer schools.

Our laboratories include state-of-the-art computing and simulation environments that bring the world to your workstation. Combine this with real, operational control, communications, and power systems, and you have an unbeatable formula for gaining that combination of technical and practical knowledge which is demanded of top electrical engineering professionals.

Capstone Project

A student prepares his capstone project under the guidance of faculty from Electrical, Computer, and Aerospace Engineering. Capstone projects allow students from several desciplines to work together to complete a final design project. This blended atmosphere models industry and prepares students to enter the workforce.As a senior, your capstone design project will give you the opportunity to conceptualize, define, and build an aerospace system or subsystem along side Aerospace Engineering students, under the guidance of faculty mentors who have truly "been there, done that!"

Small School Advantage

Students in small academic departments such as electrical engineering at Embry-Riddle benefit from frequent one-to-one mentoring which gives added support that can make the difference between success and failure. Another advantage you have as a student in this department is access to personalized advising through frequent contacts with faculty members including your faculty advisor.

Each of our faculty members brings substantial experience in academic advising and career counseling to our students. We encourage our students to take advantage of this benefit and to get to know their advisor early in their stay with us. Academic planning is the first step in career planning, a discipline that pays dividends throughout one's engineering career. Our graduates tell us that these benefits that we provide to all engineering students at Embry Riddle, Prescott make this special among educational choices.

Bachelor's Degree Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

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The Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering requires the successful completion of a minimum of 127 credit hours. Students should be aware that several courses in each academic year may have prerequisites and/or corequisites. Check the course descriptions at the back of this catalog before registering for classes to ensure requisite sequencing. The B.S. degree requires a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.00 in all EE, ES, CEC, EGR, and CS courses that fulfill any degree requirement. The Electrical Engineering degree includes a space option in which EP 394, AE 427, and AE 445 substitute for the ES elective, EE 420, and EE 421.