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ECSE Department Programs


Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Degree Programs

• Electric Power Engineering

• Electrical Engineering

• Computer and Systems Engineering


Prof. Kenneth ConnorChair, ECSE

• Office – JEC 6010

• Phone – 8552

• Email – [email protected]

• URL – http://www.rpi.edu/~connor – Copies of these slides can be found on this

webpage

• See also – http://www.ecse.rpi.edu


What Is?• Electrical Engineering – the application of the laws of

physics governing electricity, magnetism, and light to develop products and services for the benefit of humankind.

• Computer Engineering – the design, construction, implementation, and maintenance of computers and computer controlled equipment for the benefit of humankind.

• Power Engineering – the design, construction, implementation and maintenance of devices, materials and systems for the safe, reliable and economic generation, transmission, distribution, conversion, measurement and control of electric energy for the benefit of humankind.


(366,000 Members)

• Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society • Antennas and Propagation Society (9,000 Members)• Broadcast Technology Society• Circuits and Systems Society (16,000 Members)• Communications Society (50,000 Members)• Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society• Computer Society (88,000 Members)• Consumer Electronics Society• Control Systems Society (10,000 Members)• Council on Super Conductivity• Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society• Education Society


IEEE• Electromagnetic Compatibility Society• Electron Devices Society (13,000 Members)• Engineering Management Society• Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society• Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society• Industrial Electronics Society• Industry Applications Society• Information Theory Society• Intelligent Transportation Systems Council• Instrumentation and Measurement Society• Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (9,000 Members)• Magnetics Society• Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (12,000 Members)• Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society• Neural Networks Council


IEEE• Oceanic Engineering Society• Power Electronics Society• Power Engineering Society (22,000 Members)• Professional Communication Society• Reliability Society• Robotics & Automation Society• Sensors Council • Signal Processing Society (18,000 Members)• Society on Social Implications of Technology• Solid-State Circuits Society (14,000 Members)• Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society • Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society• Vehicular Technology Society


Where EE Jobs Are – IEEE Spectrum 1/03

• Defense is booming, and demand is rising in analog circuit design, power management, and automated design

• Telecom and computers are not

Check Out http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers


Critical ChallengesAlso From the Spectrum

• COMMUNICATONS• COMPUTERS• ENERGY• TRANSPORTATION• SEMICONDUCTORS


Communications• What’s wrong with telecom

– Broken business models and crippling debt are the wages of greed, corporate crime, and misguided regulation

• What’s right with telecom– Broadband's secret success and our never-

ending love of mobile communication are the aces up the industry's sleeve

• Three takes on telecom’s troubles• The end of the middle

– Pushing network intelligence out to its edges is causing the phone industry to fail—and that's okay


Computers• Hardware hangover

– Vendors hope companies start replacing obsolete machines, but customers want more bang for bucks already spent

• The perfect handheld – dream on• Can’t we just get along?

– In a networked world, software needs to learn to interoperate & Why Managers are Learning to Love Linux

• Fame, but no riches for cybersecurity– It's time for government and industry to put

their money where their mouths are


• Information like this is generally available through Reading the IEEE Spectrum either in paper form or online. All Rensselaer students have access to IEEE online publications


Energy• Opening up energy trading

– Market manipulation, self-dealing, and round-trip transactions by a small circle of players gave nascent U.S. electricity markets a bad name

• Emission permission– Bartering in carbon dioxide will be big

business

• Are we safe yet?– Recent political machinations notwithstanding,

nuclear and biological terrorism still pose very real threats


Transportation• Running off the rails

– High-speed rail works well in Europe and Japan, so why can't the United States get it right?

• Hybrid vehicles to the rescue– They've been making major gains and could

soon make their mark

• The ticket chase– To slash costs, airlines try direct Web

connections to customers

• Reversal of fortune– Once in high demand, engineers now struggle to

find work


Semiconductors

• A sea change for semiconductors– Rough economic waters pound chip

makers as they forge ahead to advance their technologies


Technology Survey


Smarter Cars


Wireless Networking

• The range of a wireless network can be extended using an antenna made from a Pringles can (now being done by ECSE students) http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448


Robotic Surgery

• A doctor in New York removing a woman’s gallbladder in France.


Telemedicine Hub

• Retired satellites have new uses


Climate Changes

Development of Accurate Modeling Tools


Fuel Cell Power

• Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle


Linking With Light


The Shrinking Transistor

• Intel Transistor


Additional Information on History, the Profession, Etc.

• http://ieee-virtual-museum.org/ The IEEE Virtual Museum

• http://www.eweek.org/ National Engineers Week


Career Information

• IEEE http://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/studentcareers_text.htm

• ESCAPE (Purdue) http://FrE.www.ecn.purdue.edu/FrE/ESCAPE/

• About Electrical and Computer Engineering (Discover Engineering Online) http://www.discoverengineering.org/Engineers/electrical_engineering.asp

• Google: What do engineers do?


Career Information• http://www.graduatingengineer.com/ from

ASEE: The full service site for students at the forefront of technology and at the start of a great career. Also look at the ASEE Careerscope http://www.asee.org/neic/careerscope/default.cfm

• The Work Circuit http://www.theworkcircuit.com/ Go to http://www.theworkcircuit.com/boards/mentor_student for for questions of interest to students in EE, EPE, and CSE


More Career Information• National Society of Professional Engineershttp://www.nspe.org/students/ • National Action Council for Minorities in Engineeringhttp://guidemenacme.org/• Society of Women Engineershttp://www.swe.org/• National Society of Black Engineershttp://www.nsbe.org• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineershttp://www.shpe.org/


Job Descriptions from Company Websites

• Intel http://www.intel.com/jobs/index.htm?iid=Homepage+IntelLinks_jobs&

• Texas Instruments http://www.ti.com/recruit/index.htm

• Motorola http://motorolacareers.com/index.cfm

• Maxim http://www.maxim-ic.com/AboutMaxim/Jobs/StartPage.htm


Job Search Sites

• YourEEcareer.com http://www.youreecareer.com/

• Engineering Center http://www.engcen.com/


Reluctance Motor


Additional Information

How Stuff Works – Started by ECSE grad Marshal Brain http://www.howstuffworks.com/

How Things Work from the University of Virginia http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/

The Straight Dope http://www.straightdope.com


AdvisingEC SE Advising Tasks by Year

P u rp ose s fo r M e etin g w ith A d v iso r

F o u rth Y e arP re p are fo r G rad S ch o o l

a n d Jo b A p p lica tio ns

T h ird Y e arP la n th e S e n io r Y e ar

E xp lo re G rad S ch o o l a ndW o rk P o ss ib ilit ies

S e con d Y e arU R P 's, In te rnsh ip s,

C o -op s , S tu dy A bro ad

F o u rth Y e arA d jus t P la n to G ra du a te

T h ird Y e arA d ju st P lan fo r C o -o p , In te rnsh ips

S tu dy A bro a d , O ve rloa d s,D ro p pe d o r F a iled C ou rses

S e con d Y e arA d ju st P lan fo r O ve rlo a ds

D ro p pe d o r F a iled C ou rses

F irs t Y e a rC h o o se M a jo r(s)

F o u rth Y e arA sk F a cu lty fo r

L e tte rs o f R e com m e n da tion

T h ird Y e arG e t to K no w Fa cu lty #3

S e con d Y e arG e t to K no w Fa cu lty #2

F irs t Y e a rG e t to K n ow A dv iso r

E n te ring R P IA d ju st P lan fo r

A d va n ce d P lace m e nt


Critical Second Year Programmatic Issues

• EE– Choose Analog

Electronics, Digital Electronics or both

– Choose Multidisciplinary Elective

– Choose Applied Mathematics Elective

– Choose Free Elective

• CSE– Choose

Multidisciplinary Elective

– Choose Applied Mathematics Elective

– Choose Free Elective

• EPE– Choose Free

Elective


Critical Third Year Programmatic Issues

• EE– Choose Concentration– Choose Lab Elective– Choose Design Elective– Choose Restricted and

Free Electives

• EPE– Choose Technical

Electives– Choose Free Electives

• CSE– Choose

Concentration– Choose Software

Engineering Elective– Choose Design

Elective– Choose Restricted

and Free Electives


ECSE Advising

• Student Responsibilities– Learn the names of instructors and advisor– Get to know well at least three faculty– Meet with advisor either in small groups or individually at

least once each year– Come prepared to all meetings with advisor– Plan as far into the future as possible– During the junior year, before the spring advising and

registration period, meet with a faculty advisor to plan remainder of courses using the degree templates available on the ECSE website.

– Provide feedback to HKN, the IEEE Student Branch, the ECSE Undergraduate Committee, the undergraduate advisor, faculty advisor or the ECSE Chair on the quality of advising and make recommendations for changes.


Advising Resources

• Engineering School in the RPI Catalog • Course Descriptions in Catalog • Advising and Learning Assistance

Center • Academic information for ECSE (will be

combined with Advising) • Advising information for ECSE • Senior Design information for ECSE


Obtaining Advice in ECSE

• Read the sections in the RPI catalog that address ECSE programs and courses

• Learn to use the online advising resources– Advising and Learning Assistance Center– Advising on the ECSE Webpage

• Contact your advisor by email, phone or in person (check office hours).

• If your advisor is unavailable for some reason, contact one of the other advisors for your class and program, or contact David Nichols [email protected]

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