Program Mission Statement
The mission of the Electrical Engineering Program is to build a leading program of exceptional teaching, innovative research, and dedicated service by maintaining a strong curriculum, highly qualified and committed faculty, outstanding facilities, and the essential funding required to meet program needs.
Program Goals, Objectives, and Outcomes
For our EE Graduates: Penn State Goals and ABET Objectives
The EE Program is preparing graduates for careers as engineering professionals where they will be able to:
- Apply principles of mathematics, science, and engineering to advanced studies, the workplace, or societal needs,
- Apply methods and tools of analysis, and design, to complex problems,
- Attain additional qualifications to secure and maintain employment through lifelong learning, societal awareness, and ethical conduct,
- Function effectively in the workplace through communication and project management skills, application of new technologies, professional behavior, and teamwork.
For our EE Students: Penn State Objectives and ABET Student Outcomes
Students in Electrical Engineering at Penn State Harrisburg will demonstrate:
- The ability to apply knowledge of calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, statistics, physics, chemistry, and computer science to solving problems in engineering
- Apply mathematic and scientific knowledge to the solution of
engineering problems
- Apply mathematic and scientific knowledge to the solution of
- The ability to design and conduct laboratory experiments and to critically analyze and interpret data
- Design experiments to investigate pertinent device, circuit, or system characteristics
- Use appropriate simulation tools to obtain predicted results
- Conduct experiments using appropriate test instruments and procedures
- Obtain data within predicted range of acceptable results
- Relate and articulate data sets to experimental objectives
- Apply experimental results to implement or suggest design changes to improve performance
- The ability to apply knowledge and creativity to the design of components, systems, or processes to meet desired needs within applicable constraints
- Plan products based on technical standards: safety, quality,
compatibility, sustainability - Awareness of tradeoffs between various circuit specifications
- Awareness of operating conditions’ impact on performance
- Awareness of legal, ethical, and political responsibilities
- Conformance and efficiency of finished projects
- Plan products based on technical standards: safety, quality,
- The ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
- Function as a team leader, as well as a member
- Interact using professional manners
- Responsibility for research, development, and reporting
- Conduct an After Action Review (AAR)
- The ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
- Identify a problem
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Classify the problem as design, analysis or research
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State problem to be solved
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- Integrate solution methods to solve complex problems
- Develop a set of specifications that define the problem
- Develop questions and/or a functional diagram needed to propose a solution
- Strategize the solution process and weigh alternative approaches
- Identify a problem
- An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
- Discuss the application of IEEE Canon of Professional Ethics
- Follow professional and ethical conduct while in the program
- Awareness that engineering decisions affect the health and safety of the public
- An ability to communicate effectively
- Write effective reports, laboratory notebooks, and proposals
- Present data effectively in graphical and tabular form
- Use of analogies and/or graphics to enhance discussion of complex concepts
- Deliver cogent oral presentations
- The breadth of education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
- Meet Penn State University’s general education curriculum requirements
- Conceive engineered products in consideration of market forces
- Conceive engineered products in consideration of environmental impact
- Conceive engineered products in consideration of end-users’ quality of life
- Recognition of the need for and ability to engage in lifelong learning
- Aware of need to engage in lifelong learning
- Demonstrate information literacy
- Use of human networking
- Knowledge of contemporary technical issues
- Consider energy sources and consumption in design of a project
- Select sustainable practices for manufacture and use of products
- Contrast advantages and disadvantages of emerging technologies
- Investigate current and emerging legislative and/or market forces
- An ability to use techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice
- Demonstrate appropriate mastery of outcomes b, c, and e
- Achieve acceptable technical performance levels on senior design project based on Technical Adviser evaluation
- Develop a set of specifications that defines the project
- Perform system decomposition
- Use and comprehend appropriate terminology
- Acquire, apply, and document new technologies