Program Mission Statement
The mission of the Electrical Engineering Program is to build a leading program of exceptional teaching, innovative research, and dedicated service by maintaining a strong curriculum, highly qualified and committed faculty, outstanding facilities, and the essential funding required to meet program needs.
For our EE Graduates: Penn State Goals and ABET Objectives
The EE Program is preparing graduates for careers as engineering professionals where they will be able to:
- Apply principles of mathematics, science, and engineering to advanced studies, the workplace, or societal needs.
- Apply methods and tools of analysis, and design, to complex problems.
- Attain additional qualifications to secure and maintain employment through lifelong learning, societal awareness, and ethical conduct.
- Function effectively in the workplace through communication and project management skills, application of new technologies, professional behavior, and teamwork.
For our EE Students: Penn State Objectives and ABET Student Outcomes
Students in Electrical Engineering at Penn State Harrisburg will demonstrate:
- An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
- Ability to Apply Engineering Skills. – Device, system, or process analysis.
- Ability to Apply Engineering Skills. – Device, system, or process modeling.
- Ability to Apply Natural Sciences. – Chemistry
- Ability to Apply Natural Sciences. – Physics
- Ability to Apply Mathematics. – Calculus
- Ability to Apply Mathematics. – Differential Equations
- Ability to Apply Mathematics. – Linear Algebra
- Ability to Apply Mathematics. – Statistics
- An ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specific needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
- Develop a set of specifications that define the objectives.
- Recognize legal, ethical, and political responsibilities.
- Plan products based on established technical standards for safety, quality, compatibility, and sustainability.
- Conceive products in light of market forces.
- Conceive products in light of end-users’ quality of life.
- Acknowledge operating conditions’ impact on performance.
- Define questions and/or develop a functional diagram needed to propose a solution.
- Weigh tradeoffs between various circuit and system characteristics.
- Integrate solution methods to solve complex problems.
- Confirm conformance and efficiency of finished products.
- An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
- Use and comprehend appropriate terminology.
- Write effective reports, laboratory notebooks, and proposals.
- Present data effectively in graphical and tabular form.
- Use analogies and/or graphics to enhance discussion of complex topics.
- Deliver cogent oral presentations.
- An ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
- Discuss the IEEE Canon of Professional Ethics.
- Show awareness that engineering decisions affect the health and safety of the public.
- Consider energy efficiency in design of a project.
- Select sustainable practices for manufacture and use of a product.
- Contrast advantages and disadvantages of emerging technologies.
- Acknowledge current & emerging legislative and/or market forces.
- An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.
- Function as a team leader as well as a member.
- Collaborate using professional manners.
- Responsibility for research, development, and reporting.
- Conduct an After Action Review (AAR).
- An ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgement to draw conclusions.
- Design experiments to investigate pertinent device, circuit, or system characteristics.
- Use appropriate simulation tools to obtain predicted results.
- Conduct experiments using appropriate test instruments and procedures.
- Obtain data within predicted range of accepted results.
- Relate and articulate data to experimental objectives.
- An ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.
- Aware of need to engage in life-long learning.
- Demonstrate information literacy.
- Use of human networking.