Bachelor of Arts Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering has long played a critical role in undergirding innovations that improve the quality of life, support economic growth, and address societal problems. Electrical Engineering plays a pivotal role in power and energy distribution, communications, and computation, even with the evolution of power-carrying channels from metal cables to nanowires or optical fibers; networks of communications from wires to wireless to neurons; and basic electrical switches from vacuum tubes to transistors to carbon nanotubes; and the internet of things. The Electrical Engineering concentration spans a broad range of topics, ranging from the physics of new materials and devices, the circuits and next-generation computing platforms made from these devices, and the algorithms that run on these platforms. The range of subtopics includes power systems, (nano) electronics, control systems, robotics, signal processing, next generation communications systems, edge computing, energy-efficient computing systems, and artificial intelligence (AI). Students learn how to analyze, design and build devices and systems for computation, communication and information transfer.