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From its earliest beginnings in electrical power generation and distribution systems, electrical engineering has evolved through telephone, radio, and television to modern microelectronics, communications and computers. The electrical engineering program at Notre Dame has followed a similar development. Today a typical electrical engineering student receives a strong background in basic sciences, especially physics and mathematics, and a broad basic background in electrical engineering including circuits, linear systems, electronics, electromagnetics, electrophysics, and computers. Required laboratories and senior design courses are intended to expose the student to practical experience, safety considerations, measurement techniques, and engineering design. Graduates of the program are employed in the semiconductor, aerospace, telecommunication, radio, television, computer, electric power, and other industries. With the B.S.E.E. degree, the electrical engineer is prepared to do engineering work in research, design, development, manufacturing, sales, market analysis, consulting, field service, and management.

London Program

The London Program is a junior semester that combines rigorous academic work with the rich cultural and social experience of living in London. Approximately 300 students campus-wide apply for the 180 places (90 per semester) available each year. A total of 20 places in the fall semester are reserved for students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Departments. The majority of courses are taught by regular Notre Dame faculty on location in London. Standard Notre Dame tuition and room and board charges cover all expenses associated with the program other than discretionary travel and entertainment costs.

EPICS Program

EPICS is a unique program in which teams of Notre Dame undergraduate engineering students are designing, building, and deploying systems to aid local community service agencies. EPICS was founded at Purdue University in Fall 1995 and was offered for the first time at Notre Dame in Spring 1998. Students from all engineering departments participate. Each student has a community service agency project partner. The initial projects are being sponsored by the Logan Center, the South Bend Heritage Foundation, and the Elkhart Environmental Education Center. Students will obtain a start-to-finish design experience, communication skills, teamwork experience, and leadership and organizational skills. Community project partners will be able to provide improved quality or new services via access to technology and expertise that would be prohibitively expensive if contracted commercially.

Senior Design

The Notre Dame design course sequence consists of two 3-credit courses in the senior year. In the Fall, the students research their projects and begin the design process. In the Spring they complete the design and continue with construction and testing. The goals of the courses are to provide a realistic design experience, introduce students to industry culture, challenge them technically and intellectually, improve their time management skills, improve their communication skills (both writing and speaking), raise student level of professionalism, provide venue for lectures by industry representatives on issues relating to management and manufacturing, provide opportunity to experience group dynamics - make mistakes now and learn from them, create industry contacts for future employment, and create stronger ties between industry and Notre Dame.