Electrical Engineering, B.S.

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Offered by: College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Required Core Courses for Major
Elective Core Courses

Required Support Courses
General Education Requirements

The educational objective of the Electrical Engineering Program is to graduate Electrical Engineering students who:

Are successfully practicing in the Electrical Engineering profession with solid theoretical and hands-on knowledge of Circuits, Electronics, Computer Software, Hardware, Control Systems, Communications, and Electrical Power.
Contribute to society through their undergraduate preparation, whether they work in the engineering profession or they decide to pursue an alternate career.
Pursue personal success by way of ethical and responsible behavior.
Understand the challenges of a dynamically and globalized changing world and are willing to adapt their skills through continuous learning and self improvement.
Master effective communication skills to obtain success either working individually or within a team environment.

Students are afforded the opportunity to specialize at the junior and senior level by choosing from a number of Specified Programs of Electives (S.P.E.). Some of the S.P.E.’s offered by the department are Power, Electronics including Analog and Digital Devices, Controls and Instrumentation including Robotics and Biomedical, Communications & Signal Processing including Analog and Digital, Digital Systems and Illumination Engineering.

Required Core Courses for Major: 77 units

Required of all students. A 2.0 cumulative GPA is required in core courses in order to receive a degree in the major.

Elective Core Courses: 21 units

ECE Upper Division Electives (21)

12 of the 21 units must be 400 level courses. A minimum of one lab (either 300 or 400 level) is required. If a course has an associated lab, both must be taken.

Required Support Courses: 45 units

The following major support courses should be used to satisfy the indicated GE requirements. If these courses are not used to satisfy GE, the total units to degree may be more than 198 units.

General Education Requirements: 68 units

Students should consult the catalog website www.csupomona.edu/~academic/catalog/ for current information regarding this requirement. Unless specific courses are stated under Support Courses, see the list of approved courses under General Education Requirements, Areas A through E. An alternate pattern from that listed here for partial fulfillment of Areas 1, 3 and 4 available for students in this major is the Interdisciplinary General Education (IGE) program. Please see the description of IGE elsewhere in your catalog.

Area A. Communication and Critical Thinking (12 units)

Oral Communication
Written Communication
Critical Thinking

Area B. Mathematics and Natural Sciences (16 units)

Physical Science
Biological Science
Laboratory Activity
Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning
Science and Technology Synthesis

Area C. Humanities (16 units)

Visual and Performing Arts
Philosophy and Civilization
Literature and Foreign Languages
Humanities Synthesis

Area D. Social Sciences (20 units)

U.S. History, Constitution, and American Ideals
History, Economics, and Political Science
Sociology, Anthropology, Ethnic and Gender Studies
Social Science Synthesis

Area E. Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development (4 units)