Electronics Engineering Technology
Program Objectives
Program educational objectives are the skills and abilities graduates are expected to demonstrate during the first few years of employment. EET program educational objectives include:
- Achieving employment in an EET-related position with appropriate title and compensation.
- Demonstrating EET-related technical problem-solving skills.
- Functioning effectively on diverse and multidisciplinary teams.
- Communicating effectively with both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Adapting to changes in technology through continuous personal and professional development.
- Being capable of assuming increasing professional responsibility
- Conducting all professional activities with integrity, and demonstrating a sense of social and environmental responsibility.
Program outcomes are the skills and abilities students are expected to demonstrate at graduation. Program outcomes for the EET program include:
- Using principles and tools of science, mathematics, engineering and technology to design, implement and evaluate solutions to complex technical problems.
- Developing electronic and computer systems using appropriate test equipment (with an awareness of related software issues), and using results of analyses to improve designs or methodologies.
- Successfully developing a meaningful hardware-based project taking safety, ethical, social, economic and technical constraints into consideration.
- Communicating effectively both orally and in writing.
- Working effectively in a team environment.
- Developing research and problem-solving skills to support lifelong personal and professional development.
- Evaluating the broader effects of technology, and identifying connections between technology and economics, politics, culture, ethical responsibility, social structure, the environment and other areas.
