The electrical engineering program offers two technical options: electrical and electronic, and computer engineering. Both are designed to guide students to build technical competency, effective communication and leadership skills, and entrepreneurial spirit. The program integrates the liberal studies core and emphasizes holistic student development. The department employs an innovative teaching approach, Modular Integrated Curriculum Environment (MICE). MICE treats each core subject within the curriculum as a modular unit that focuses on specific topics of knowledge. Each modular unit has a project that ties into a centralized learning platform, mini-Electric-Vehicle (miniEV), to function as part of the system without requiring students to have full knowledge of the system to see how their own modular design will work in a larger system. By doing so, students will have the opportunity to build system-level integration skills and be able to understand early in their careers how each subject learned is employed and utilized in a larger system. Within this learning environment, students at all levels are engaging in project-based learning. The electrical engineering curriculum is designed to foster students’ system integration, project management and entrepreneurial skills. Electrical engineering majors take various core and elective courses including: ECE 217: Data Structure and Algorithm This course involves an in-depth, programming-based study of data structures, algorithms and cooperating programming techniques used in real-time and embedded systems. Topics include static and dynamic structures, hashing, searching, signals and distributive and concurrent inter-process communication. ECE 327 and ECE 328: Electric Drives and Laboratory These courses are taken concurrently. The lecture course allows examination of all subsystems of an electric drive system. Its topics include electric machines, power-electronics-based converters, understanding mechanical system requirements, feedback controller design and interaction of drives with the utility grid. Students spend three hours per week in the lab for hands-on application of classroom theory. ECE 357: Senior Design This senior-level course includes discussion of design fundamentals, application of design principles to a design problem, determination of a complete problem definition or specification, and development of a conceptual design and a preliminary design with alternatives. Students establish a schedule and tentative test plan, discuss ethics and consider the impact on engineering decisions. Liberal Studies Core The Liberal Studies Core Curriculum is one reflection of Gannon University's commitment to its Catholic identity. The Core's design offers students a defined, integrated, shared experience as the foundation for their undergraduate program.

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