Overview of BSEE program

Mani V. Venkatasubramanian

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BS in Electrical Engineering

• Total of 128 credit hours• Four year program with 32 credit hours for each year

• Electrical Engineering – 47 credit hours• Technical Electives – 15 credit hours• Computer Science – 3 credit hours• Mathematics and basic sciences – 33 credit

hours• General Education Requirement (GER) – 24

credit hours• General Engineering – 6 credit hours

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Engineering Design Component

• More than 15.5 credit hours of design component in BSEE curriculum

• Senior design classes, EE 415 and EE 416 – 4 credit hours of design

• CptE courses, EE 214 and EE 234 – 4 credit hours of design

• EE core courses, EE 311, EE 341, EE 351, EE 352, EE 361, EE 362, and EE 489 –7.5 credit hours of design

• Tech Electives – Additional design exposure

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Laboratory Experience

• Total of 7 lab credit hours• EE 262 Electrical Circuits Lab – 1 lab credit hour• EE 352 Electrical Engineering Lab. I – 2 lab

credit hours• EE 362 Power Systems Lab. I – 2 lab credit

hours• EE 214 Logic Circuits and EE 234

Microprocessor Systems – 2 lab credit hours• Additional lab. Components in EE technical

electives

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Programming Experience

• More than 5 credit hours

• CptS 251 C Programming – 3 credit hours

• EE 221 Funda. of Numerical Computing – 2 credit hours (Matlab based)

• EE 214, EE 234, EE lab courses, possibly EE 416 and possibly EE Tech. Electives

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Recent BSEE Curriculum Changes

• Programming requirements changed:• Previous: CS 121 Programming design (4 credits) and

CS 122 Data Structures (4 credits) • New: CS 251 C Programming (3 credits) and EE 221

Numerical Computing (Matlab) (2 credits)• Probability course changed from Stat 443 to either of Stat

360 or Stat 443.• Special EE Tech. Elective (any one of 4) required. All four

EE Tech. Electives include Probability application to address ABET concerns.

• Two of remaining 4 Tech. Electives must be EE courses. Two others can be any among approved electives.

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EE/CptE Senior Design projects

• Fall 2006, 8 team projects, all had industry sponsors

• Spring 2007, 6 team projects, 4 had industry sponsors, 2 WSU sponsored

• Sponsors: Digilent, Linear Technology, PNNL, Tacoma Power, Comtech AHA Corporation, SEL, NASA, ClearEdge Power Inc.

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EE/CptE Senior Design examples

• Noise reduction and chaotic signals in aircraft communications, PNNL

• Fault data retrieval for the GE D25, Tacoma Power• Solar powered diagnostic lab in Africa, WSU Engineers

without borders• Network algorithm implementation for space exploration,

NASA• Design of 6 kW power control system for fuel cells,

ClearEdge Power Inc.• Emulation of Motorola MC68332 targeting an FPGA

using VHDL, SEL

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Network algorithm implementation for space exploration

Team: Celeste Ellis, James Flynn, Alex Grad, Alireza Mansoori, and James Purdy, Mentor: Sandip Roy, Sponsor: NASA.

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Design of 6 kW power control system for fuel cells

Team: Justin Fox, Karl Derkey, James Amos, Chris Keeser, Mentors: Quintin Ming and Doug Ausdermore, Sponsor: ClearEdge Inc.

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Power Generation for a Hospital in Abri, Sudan

Team: Sam Guan, Charles Renneberg, Kylan Robison, Takele Taffesse, and Vladimir Yerokhin, Mentor: Mohammad Osman, Sponsor: Engineers without Borders at WSU

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BSEE Internship program overview

• Long history of internship support from industry

• 12 out of 26 recent EE graduates had internships

• Sponsors: • Digilent (3), General Electric, Boeing (2),

Idaho National Labs, DOE Hanford, Bechtel, Puget Sound Energy, Jet Propulsion Labs, AHA in Moscow, Inifia in Tri-Cities