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Accredited by ABET (see inside front cover).

Offered by: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
223 Phillips Hall, 255.4309, www.ece.cornell.edu

Program Objectives

Our objectives are designed to serve the needs of our constituents: our graduates, the employers of our graduates, the graduate study programs that our graduates enter, our faculty, and our society.

•    To create leading scholars and professionals who are committed to excellence, integrity, lifelong learning, and professional citizenship.

•    To enable our students to achieve engineering goals through problem solving, design, experimentation, teamwork, and effective communication.

•    To endow our students with an appreciation of the impact of electrical and computer engineering on society and to encourage creative responses to the needs of society by our graduates.

•    To provide our students with a broad education in the fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as advanced knowledge in one or more technical areas that lead to and sustain a productive engineering career.

Areas of Concentration

Computer architecture and organization, digital systems, and computer vision; power systems, control, optimization, numerical, and state-space methods; communications, networks, information theory, and coding, signal processing; electronic circuits, VLSI, solid state physics and devices, MEMs, nanotechnology, lasers and optoelectronics; electromagnetics, radiophysics, space sciences, and plasmas.

Engineering Distributions

ENGRD/ECE 210: Introduction to Circuits for Electrical and Computer Engineers
or
ENGRD/ECE 230: Introduction to Digital Logic Design

ENGRD 211: Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures (recommended for those interested in the Computer Engineering specialty area)

Required Major Courses

ECE/ENGRD 210: Introduction to Circuits for Electrical and Computer Engineers

ECE 220: Signals and Information

ECE 303: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

ECE 314: Computer Organization

ECE 315: Introduction to Microelectronics

ECE 320: Networks and Systems

Major-approved Electives

Advanced ECE Electives: six lecture courses

Major-complementary electives (outside the Major)a: 9 credits minimum

The minimum number of Major credits is currently 52. Details are available on the ECE graduation check list available in 223 Phillips Hall.

Culminating Design Experience (CDE)

We are committed to providing our students with the most useful and relevant educational experience possible. The Culminating Design Experience (CDE) courses, of which two are required for graduation, include a significant and open-ended engineering design assignment with realistic constraints. Consideration of most of the following issues will be an integral part of a CDE course: an ability to design a component, system, or process to meet desired needs that includes most of the following: economics, the environment, sustainability, manufacturability, ethics, health and safety, society, and politics. An updated list of courses that meet the CDE requirement will be posted each semester on the bulletin board outside of 223 Phillips Hall. The CDE courses for the academic year 2007–2008 are ECE 415: GPS: Theory and Design, ECE 426: Applications of Signal Processing, ECE 437: Fiber and Integrated Optics, ECE 453: Analog Integrated Circuit Design, ECE 467: Digital Communication Receiver Design, ECE 475: Computer Architecture, and ECE 476: Digital Systems Design Using Microcontrollers.

Independent projects such as ECE 391, 392, 491, or 492 count only in the outside ECE Technical Electives category.



Electrical and Computer Engineering Major Check List

	Minimum Credit Hours	√ When Done
MATH 191	4	❑
MATH 192	4	❑
MATH 293	4	❑
MATH 294	4	❑
CHEM 209 or 215	4	❑
PHYS 112 or 116	4	❑
PHYS 213 or 217	4	❑
PHYS 214 or 218	4	❑
CS 100	4	❑
CS 101	1	❑
Applications of Probability and Statisticsa	3	❑
Intro to Engineering (ENGRI 1XX)	3	❑
Engineering Distribution 1: ECE/ENGRD 230 (required)	4	❑
Engineering Distribution 2b: ENGRD 211    (recommended for Computer Engineering)	3	❑
First-Year Writing Seminar 1c	3	❑
First-Year Writing Seminar 2	3	❑
Liberal Studies Distribution—six courses (18-credit minimum)d
Liberal Studies 1		❑
Liberal Studies 2		❑
Liberal Studies 3		❑
Liberal Studies 4		❑
Liberal Studies 5		❑
Liberal Studies 6		❑
College/Advisor–Approved Elective (two courses, 6-credit minimum)		❑
Physical Education (two semesters) and swim test		❑
Required Major Coursese (53 credits)		❑
Additional Engineering Requirements		❑
Technical Writing Coursec		❑
Total Required Credits	130 minimum	❑

Notes

a.    Three credits must be from ECE 310: Introduction to Probability and Random Signals, T&AM 310: Introduction to Applied Mathematics I, or ENGRD 270: Basic Engineering Probability and Statistics.
b.    Must include one course numbered ≥300, and all courses must have a college-level prerequisite. Students must also meet a college requirement of technical communications.
c.    In addition to the first-year writing seminars, a technical writing course must be taken as an engineering distribution, liberal studies, or approved elective.
d.    The six courses must be chosen from at least three of the following six groups: (1) Cultural Analysis (CA), (2) Historical Analysis (HA), (3) Literature and the Arts (LA), (4) Knowledge, Cognition, and Moral Reasoning (KCM), (5) Social and Behavioral Analysis (SBA), (6) Foreign Languages (not literature courses). At least two of the six courses must be at 200 level or higher.
e.    This engineering check list is formatted to conform to the general specifications of the College of Engineering and accurately reflects the first- and second-year requirements. We strongly recommend that you visit 223 Phillips Hall or the Electrical and Computer Engineering web site (www.ece.cornell.edu) for an official Electrical and Computer Engineering Major check list appropriate for the class of 2007 and later.


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