As an electrical engineering major, you can learn to design, develop, analyze, research and create systems for a wide variety of fields, including power generation, communication, healthcare and instrumentation. You’ll also learn about the devices and components that make up these systems—from the smallest transistors (of which there can be hundreds of billions on a single chip!) to antennas, lasers, electric engines and even fusion devices that could provide power for the world.
As an electrical engineering major, you’ll learn the tools for analyzing and operating systems, including signal processing, control and machine learning. Two “named degree options,” which are reflected on your transcript, allow you to dedicate some of your elective credits on specific areas of expertise: Our new semiconductor engineering named option enables you to focus on the science, tools and practices of engineering semiconductor-based devices and systems. And our machine learning and data science named degree option enables you to focus on the mathematics, tools and practices associated with machine learning and data science in engineering. In the UW-Madison ECE department, our programs will match your ambition.