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ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER

ENGINEERING
AT UofL
The history, profession and
educational programs of ECE
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?

Electrical Engineering deals with the study and

application of electricity, electronics, and
electromagnetism.

Computer Engineering integrates several fields of

electrical engineering and computer science required
to develop computer hardware and software. Computer
engineering focuses both on how computer systems
work, and how they integrate into larger systems.
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Specialties in Electrical Engineering are
Electronics: Circuits, micro and nano-devices, lasers
Power systems: The Grid, power electronics, solar energy
Communication systems: Wireless, fiber optic, satellite, radio, TV, GPS
Instruments: Test-measurement, sensors, radars, embedded systems
Control and Guidance Systems

Specialties in Computer Engineering are

Digital circuit design
Computer design: Devices, systems, hardware engineering
Programming: From assembly language to simulation tools
Signal processing: Face recognition, neural networks, spectrum
analysis
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Electrical Engineering Specialty: Electronics

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Semiconductor
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board of
chip and an audio
board
Photonic amplifier
Color camera
schematics
crystal or chip
“metamaterial”
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Electrical Engineering Specialty: Control and Guidance Systems

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What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Electrical Engineering Specialty: Electrical Power Systems

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Generation
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generation of
transforms
and
Grid
electricity
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Solar generation of electricity

What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Electrical Engineering Specialty: Communication Systems

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enabling nearly
worldwide
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limitless
instantaneous
connectivity
connectivity
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awareness”
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What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Electrical Engineering Specialty: Instruments
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tiny electronic sensors

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wearable sensing skins
miniature
sensors
extensively

Rack
RadarEmbedded
mounted systems
and Infrared architectures
test-measurement
remote sensing
equipment
systems
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Computer Engineering Specialty: Digital Circuit Design

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What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Computer Engineering Specialty: Computer design

Computer
Design designs
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design is realized
– as
computers
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from room
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and chips
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friendly
multidimensional
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Computer Engineering Specialty: Programming

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HTML Programming
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Computer Engineering Specialty: Signal Processing

The rich set of data

that is unique to each
human being, when
evaluated by signal
processing/pattern
recognition methods.
permits automatic
identity verification
Simple neural Application of neural network architecture
Transient
network speech
topology
Complex one signal
to high
and two dimensionalSimple frequency
level understanding
frequency spectrum
of speech
spectra
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Computer Engineering Specialty: Robotics

Walking robots
Micro-robots
Robot hand Drone with video link
What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL?
Specialties in Electrical Engineering are
Electronics: Circuits, micro and nano-devices, lasers
Power systems: The Grid, power electronics, solar energy
Communication systems: Wireless, fiber optic, satellite, radio, TV, GPS
Instruments: Test-measurement, sensors, radars, embedded systems
Control and Guidance Systems

Specialties in Computer Engineering are

Digital circuit design
Computer design: Devices, systems, hardware engineering
Programming: From assembly language to simulation tools
Signal processing: Face recognition, neural networks, spectrum
analysis
 Just how much Computer Science is taught in ECE at UofL?
ECE offers courses in 9 of the 10 areas of Computer Science
 
Coding, cryptography, and information protection
Communications and wireless networks
Compilers and operating systems
Computational science and engineering
Computer networks, mobile computing, and distributed systems
Computer systems: architecture, parallel processing & dependability
Computer vision and robotics
Embedded systems
Integrated circuits, VLSI design, testing and CAD
Signal, image and speech processing

There are full courses in 6 of the 10 areas ()

and partial coverage in courses of 3 of the 10 areas ()
What our students say about the UofL ECE program
Why I Chose Electrical Engineering

Enjoy taking devices apart and figuring out

how they work
Provides career paths in most industries
More interested in hardware aspect than
software
Great Cooperative Internships experiences at:
Marathon Petroleum Company
TopWorx

Cynthia Smith
 JOBS IN ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Jobs in the US from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Number of jobs Expected growth in
Engineering Job: Median salary
in US jobs 2012-2022
Electrical Engineer 174,000 5% $ 88,000
Electronics Engineer 145,000 3% $ 92,000
Computer Hardware Engineer 83,000 7% $ 101,000
Software Developer: Application 613,000 23 % $ 90,000
Software Developer: Systems 404,000 20 % $ 99,000
Computer Programmers 344,000 8% $ 74,280
Total 1,763,000  

There are lots of engineering job categories where ECE graduates find
employment, in addition to traditional electrical & electronic
THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Electrical Engineering – 2500 years in the making
 

This 30 foot tall mural was completed for the 1937 World’s Fair in
Paris. It is now housed in the Paris Museum of Modern Art. It depicts
the history and mythology of electricity.

Over 100 hundred scientists who developed our understanding of

electricity are represented, starting from the left. ECE students
become familiar with many of these names, including:

Faraday, Coulomb, Maxwell, Lorentz

Hertz, Kelvin, Ampere, Watt, Ohm
Joule, Volta, Fourier, Laplace, Huygens
Leibniz, Newton, Marconi, Edison
 THINK BIG!
LOTS OF INTERESTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECEs
Telecommunications,
Radio,
Electronic Information
Computers
Entertainment-Sound,
Radar
Devices TV,
and
and Processing
Movies,
Microwaves
Integrated & Internet
Computer
Circuits
Famous Electrical
Lighting,
Control systems, Engineers
Lasers &
Electric&Power
Measurement
Robotics, Computer
Optoelectronics
Instruments Engineers
Man-machine interfaces
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J. T.
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G. Bright
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Astronauts Career
telegraph
purpose
all-electronic
circuit
radio theory
broadcast Paths
cable
digital
video
and – computer
camera
analysis
Nobel Prize
G. Heilmeier The liquid W. crystal
Hewlett display
& D. (LCD)
Packard
C. Shannon
Thomas
Lee
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Flowers
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rating
vacuum for Lotfi
theory,
electronic
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computer
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sound
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Robert Bardeen
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for radar
computer
reduction
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microwave
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David Wolf Founded
speaker
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systems
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Dennis Gabor
Kalman particle
filter for counter
guidance
Holography with
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measurements
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Seymour
Robert
Arun TCP/IPPioneering
Cray
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Developed architecture
processing
Invented HDTV,
the modern
microwave L. Kleinrock
supercomputers
President ARPANET
Bell
DRAM memory
research Labs
Hyman G. Rickover
D.Gerald
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John
Donald
Pat Pearson
Data packet
Hennessy
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Hanrahan Gregory
Godfrey
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synthesizers
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speed
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photos
design and antenna
Grid computing
BillICAtkinson— MacPaint
software compilers
Electrical and Computer Engineers
make great inventors

INVENT YOURSELF!

Join the ECE program and become

an Electrical and Computer Engineer
 Meet the ECE Department at the
Annual Student-Faculty Picnic

Other social events: Student & Louisville IEEE branch meetings, Seminar series, Honors,
awards & graduation ceremonies, Competitions like National Solar Decathalon
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ENGINEERING AT UofL

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