Throughout human history engineers have expressed their skill in the art of designing bridges, buildings, steam trains and mechanical typewriters. Then came the Electrical Engineer! Electrical Engineers are at the forefront of the technology leading to the dramatic increase in communications and the internet, the accelerated use of electric powered vehicles and alternatives, improved health care, the dominating influence of the computer on modern society, and a host of other developments to benefit mankind. This widespread and expanding use of electronic equipment in virtually all fields has made electrical & computer engineering the largest of all scientific disciplines and assures a continuing demand for electrical engineering graduates throughout business and government.
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What is Senior Design?
During your senior year, you bridge the gap between your academic experience and professional experience by participating in yearlong design projects that involve real projects and real clients. It is a time to roll up your sleeves and put into action all of your training. Design groups are formed each with a design and product objective. This year one group has been given the heavy task to design a solar photovoltaic and wind turbines system to be used as alternative sources of energy for a new 7000 sq ft PACCAR technology and manufacturing center. Read more on Senior Design...
Circuits & Electronics Lab Renovation
We celebrated the completion of the renovation of Bannan 204, the Circuits and Electronics Lab. Come visit the new lab.
What would you expect a student to do with 500 million transistors at his/her disposal?
Build a game box, of course!
This is often the case in the Seattle University’s Electrical & Computer Engineering class ECEGR401–VLSI:VHDL.
"For my final project in class ECEGR 401 I designed a two-player version of pong using VHDL and implemented it on the Xilinx Spartan 3 board. The game is displayed on a VGA monitor and the score is displayed on four seven-segment display on the Spartan 3 board.
Internships open doors to possible careers
In an unstable economy, internship experience plays an even more vital role in landing professional employment. Employers are reducing their risks by hiring employees within established work of experience, particularly within the company or organization.. In the last year, the amount of internships available to students has risen 68 percent. "Practices are shifting within the recruiting mechanism; it's more profitable now to see prospective employees perform in a work environment," says Daniel Pascoe, director of Career Services at Seattle University.
Joseph McMichael, senior electrical engineering major, hopes his NASA and Boeing internships will give him a leg up in the job market.
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Engineers help computers understand cocktail chatter
If you have ever been to a noisy cocktail party, you know how difficult it can be to hear one person talk among the voices of many.
Professor Alvin Moser, of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Seattle University, along with the help of two students, is developing a speech processing system meant to reduce "cocktail party noise," which can be a problem particularly for the hard of hearing. The project has involved designing an analog input system-a four-way microphone-as well as a system to convert a stream of sound into digital information.
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