Undergraduate Program - General Information

As an electrical or computer engineer, you will work at the heart of the most rapidly developing technology humankind has ever seen. Electrical engineers design and build electronic devices, process data and signals, sense things, control things, power things, and connect things and people, and lots more! Electrical engineering is one of the broadest of all engineering degrees, allowing students to move into virtually any area. Computer engineering is a discipline that combines electrical engineering with computer science, training students to have good understanding in both hardware and software. Electrical and computer engineering are among the top requested majors by potential employers.

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering offers 

Accreditation

The BS program in Electrical Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org. The BS program in Computer Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org.

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Enrollment and Graduation Data

Program Overview

Core courses cover the fundamentals of electrical and computer engineering, while upper level technical elective courses allow students to pursue their specific technical interests. The program emphasizes hands-on education with state-of-the-art equipment and software tools. There are three required project courses, one each at the sophomore (EE 296), junior (EE 396), and senior (EE 496) levels.  

In the Electrical Engineering program, the electives are divided into two major areas or Tracks: 

  • Electrophysics Track 
    • antennas, circuit/device designs, electromagnetic, electronics, fabrication, microwave engineering, optics, solid-state devices, and sensors. 
  • Systems & Data Science Track 
    • control, data science, convolutional neural networks, machine learning, optimization, pattern recognition, signal/image processing, and telecommunications.

Electrical Engineering program students may also opt to take a select set of courses to receive a concentration in 

  • Biomedical Concentration
  • Energy Concentration
The Computer Engineering program develops the following backgrounds: algorithms, computer architecture, computer network, embedded systems, and software engineering.

Financial Aid

Many scholarship opportunities are available for current students.

Careers

Former graduates have become professional engineers, employed both locally and nationally. Locally, they are well represented at companies, such as Hawaiian Telecom, Hawaiian Electric, Lockheed-Martin, Referentia, Spirent, Ron Ho and Associates, and federal and state agencies. On the mainland, they have become successful managers and engineers in companies such as Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon, as well as smaller start-up companies.  A number of graduates have continued their education to obtain MS and PhD degrees at the University of Hawaii and at schools such as MIT, UC-Berkeley, USC, UCLA, and Stanford.