You can be one of the tool builders of the information age. Apply principles from math and physics to build systems and components for a wide range of products, from cell phones to automobiles to airplanes. Ready to spark your interest?
Apply NowElectrical Engineering provides a sound education in mathematics and the sciences, a broad foundation in the fundamentals of engineering, and elective opportunities to develop expertise to put technical knowledge into perspective. As tool builders of the information age, you can apply principles from math and physics to build systems and components for a wide range of products, from cell phones to automobiles to airplanes.
The WVU Amateur Radio Club is focused on providing you with an environment in which they can learn about RF communications. We emphasize project-based learning and encourage you and our members to lead by example.
Read More : WVU Amateur Radio ClubEta Kappa Nu is an honors society dedicated to encouraging and recognizing excellence in the field of electrical and computer engineering. As a member you will be the company of students, alumni, and professionals who have demonstrated exceptional academic and professional accomplishments.
Read More : Eta Kappa NuWVU IEEE fosters your professional development by finding opportunities to develop your technical and social skills outside of the classroom. Workshops and participating in multiple projects throughout the semester are proven to develop these skills for your engineering career, such as soldering to assemble your own micro keyboard.
Read More : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)This student-run organization is dedicated to connecting you with a diverse group of students from all majors together and utilize their personal skills to help each other grow in knowledge and community centered around robotics.
Read More : WVU Robotics ClubThe EcoCAR Mobility Challenge tasks 11 universities across North America to redesign a GM automobile into an energy-efficient hybrid with autonomous capabilities. As a member of the team, your goal is to optimize the driving performance and retain high safety and consumer standards while maintaining the promise of a “stylish utility vehicle.”
Read More : EcoCARWVU has a proud history of triumphs for both students and faculty in the field of robotics. Over the past decade, our robotics teams have consistently achieved recognitions, earning over twenty placement awards. Notably, they have secured nine first-place victories in multiple high-profile national and international robotics competitions.
Design and analyze systems that manage, command, control or regulate the behavior of other systems using sensor feedback.
Develop systems that generate and distribute power on a large scale using traditional and renewable energy sources
Through the knowledge of electricity and electromagnetism, help advance the world of medicine by creating new biomedical technologies and therapies and keep us secure by developing new ways to identify individuals based on fingerprints, voice patterns and facial features.
Use your knowledge and skills to create electronic and optoelectronic components and circuits for analog and digital systems.
Build systems capable of turning audio, video, images and other data into digital impulses that can be processed, stored and transmitted.
Undergraduate research opportunities are available in data collection for biometric sensing and CubeSat design. You can participate in summer undergraduate internships available through the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program.
Undergraduate Research at WVUAs an electrical engineer, you will design, develop, test, and oversee the manufacture and maintenance of equipment that uses electricity, including subsystems for power generation and transmission, sensors, electronics, instrumentation, controls, communications and signal processing. The Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org, under the General Criteria and the Program Criteria for Electrical Engineering.
In electrical engineering, your coursework covers essential preparatory to technical courses through to advanced instruction through required courses and electives.
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