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Electrical Engineering Degree
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Program type:
Major
Format:
On Campus
Est. time to complete:
4+ years
Credit Hours:
128
You’ll be electrified by the fascinating study and research possibilities our state-of-the-art
instructional and research labs have to offer.
The Electrical Engineering program at UNT offers you a hands-on project-oriented education
for development of state-of-the-art electrical/electronic/embedded systems by integrating
theoretical concepts and practical insights. Students are well prepared for industry
through semester-long projects executed every semester following an engineering product
life cycle involving various stages from the requirement and functional specifications,
through design to testing.
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Request More InfoWhy earn an Electrical Engineering degree?
The department houses several state-of-the-art instructional and research laboratories that provide practical and advanced hands-on experiences. They include:
- Analog/Mixed-Signal Design and Simulation Laboratory
- Autonomous Systems Laboratory
- Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory
- Embedded Sensing & Processing Systems Laboratory
- Environmental and Ecological Engineering Laboratory
- Optimization, Signal Processing, and Control Algorithm Research Laboratory
- Power Electronics and Renewable Laboratory
Marketable Skills
- Identify and solve engineering problems
- Design and conduct experiments
- Engage in life-long learning
- Design with realistic constraints
- Teamwork
Electrical Engineering Degree Highlights
Active learning emphasizes the knowledge and skills you need to be successful in your
future career.
The department's design projects are part of the coursework, helping you learn creative
bleeding-edge solutions to address today's engineering opportunities.
You'll have opportunities at UNT to conduct research, give presentations and publish
articles in academic journals.
Collaborating with faculty and graduate students, undergraduate researchers work with
advanced equipment in our new facilities at Discovery Park.
Undergraduate students have excellent opportunities to receive scholarships, assistantships
and industrial internships.
Your coursework will feature "learning-to-learn" experiences in projects taught jointly
by industry and university personnel.
What Can You Do With A Degree in Electrical Engineering?
Our graduates will have the basic experimental, design and communication skills needed either to continue on to the graduate level or to pursue careers in an extremely diverse field, including government and industrial sectors, with job responsibilities in research, design, development and operations.
Electrical engineers work in companies that are developing:
- Computers
- Semiconductor integrated circuits and devices
- Telecommunications systems
- Aerospace and aviation systems
- Imaging techniques
- Sensors
- Wireless networks
And that's just a start. More and more of the objects in our world are powered by electrical engineers.
- Overall employment of electrical engineers is projected to grow 7% from 2020 to 2030.
- Median earnings for electrical engineers in 2020 were $103,390.
- Texas is a top-paying state for electrical engineers, with an annual mean wage of $107,270.
- California is the top-paying state for electrical engineers in the country, with an annual mean wage of $124,390.
Electrical Engineering Degree Courses You Could Take
Digital Logic Design (3 hrs)
Topics include history and overview; switching theory; combinational logic circuits;
modular design of combinational circuits; memory elements; sequential logic circuits;
digital system design; and fault models and testing.
Engineering Electromagnetics (3 hrs)Students will learn electromagnetic theory as
applied to electrical engineering
vector calculus; electrostatics and magnetostatics; Maxwell’s equations, including
Poynting’s theorem and boundary conditions; uniform plane-wave propagation; transmission
lines – TEM modes, including treatment of general, lossless line and pulse propagation;
introduction to guided waves; introduction to radiation and scattering concepts.
Introduction to Electrical Engineering (3 hrs)
Learning to Learn (L2L) is based on sound cognitive and pedagogical techniques that
improve learning outcomes and make lifelong learning habitual. Students develop an
understanding of how engineering is learned and how they can facilitate and develop
the lifelong learning process, both individually and in teams.
Analog and Digital Circuit Design Project (3 hrs)
Students learn to use basic electrical engineering lab equipment, to build and test
simple circuits in the lab and to design and analyze circuits using CAD software tools.
Includes simulation and design experiments and a final comprehensive design project
to complement the circuit analysis course.
Modern Communication System Design Project (3 hrs)
Students are required to design electronic communication systems with electronic devices
such as MOS transistors, capacitors and resistors. Topics include LC circuits and
oscillators, AM modulation, SSB communications and FM modulation.
Signals and Systems (3 hrs)
Topics include elementary concepts of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and
systems; linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, impulse response, convolution, Fourier
series, Fourier transforms and frequency-domain analysis of LTI systems; and laplace
transforms, z-transforms and rational function descriptions of LTI systems.
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