Concentrations
Pick a concentration in Electrical Engineering or Sustainable Environments Engineering. Declare by the end of your second year.
Electrical Engineering
Design various types of electrical equipment, including computer hardware, sensors, biomedical instrumentation, and control systems – every kind of device imaginable. Emphasis will be placed on devices used to improve people’s lives across the globe, such as low-cost medical diagnostics and alternative energy strategies.
Electrical Engineering Course Requirements
Sustainable Environments Engineering
Techniques and solutions that protect ecosystems and the built environment, including social justice as a measure of effective design. Encompassing elements of civil and environmental engineering, this concentration emphasizes a range of considerations from individual building materials to water resources and urban infrastructural systems — all of which can be designed to promote a sustainable environment.
Sustainable Environments Course Requirements
Career Paths
- Public sector engineer or project manager
- Private sector consulting at civil, environmental, start-ups, or design firms
- Technologist/engineering technician
- Engineering-adjacent jobs such as technical or scientific writer, technical sales, legal, and design
- Tech and related industries
- Construction management
- Engineering in the non-profit space
- Engineering policy and management in government
- Graduate school and academia (MS/PhD and beyond)
- Professional Engineer licensing
- Education and community/social organizing
- Research and development for consumer products
- Engineering team management and facilitating communications between different engineers