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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Careers

Neil E. CotterUniversity of Utah

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EE and CE briefly described

Salaries and companies who hire

Case studies of EE/CE jobs

Lessons learned

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Electrical Engineers are inventors and innovators who apply knowledge of

signals, circuits, physics, and systems to develop technologies to

improve people's lives

What is Electrical Engineering?

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Computer Engineers design and program computer systems, small

and large, to improve people's lives

What is Computer Engineering?

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How do CS and CE and EE Differ?

EECECS

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Example: EE’s 2011 (CE’s similar)

Are there EE and CE Jobs?

46 of 53 graduates had job offers / grad school acceptance by graduation day

Many had multiple offers

Average reported starting salary: $59,000

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ATK Bachtel Marine Harman Signal

Proc. Hill AFB Knolls Atomic

Power L-3

Communications Micron Moog Aircraft Navsea

Northrop Grumman Raytheon Reliable Controls Rio Tinto Rocky Mtn. Power Sorenson

Communications Varian Medical Syst.

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Write software to decode speech waveform

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Use frequency analysis to detect vowel sounds

Use probabilistic models to guess which phonemes were most likely

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Shoot X-rays at object, detect photon emissions (pulses)

Pulse size and quantity indicate makeup of sample

Undo the overlap to determine original pulses, (math problem)

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Induction furnace in steel mill heats by creating eddie currents in bar

Model of cooling derived by (slow) numerical simulation

Nonlinear differential equation used to model temperature in real-time

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A Hall effect sensor can detect if a door is open

A central computer can monitor a farm of storage lockers

Fast turnaround in prototyping creates a business opportunity

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Auditory prosthesis stimulates auditory nerve electrically

To create proper sound, flow of current must be controlled

Threshold tests with patients determine how current spreads out from electrodes

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An algorithm is needed to control the positioning of a large motor

Fuzzy logic translates operator knowledge into control signals

An adaptive algorithm tracks performance and tweaks the control algorithm

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Your immediate boss is the most important person in the company

In school, individual performance rules; in industry, teams rule

Figure out how you can help, instead of looking smart

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