Graduate Certificate in Electrical Engineering Foundations
Build fundamental electrical engineering skills in a nine-month, six-course sequence. Get introduced to tools, industry-standard simulation software and techniques used to solve engineering challenges.
- Evening, on-campus cohort
- Part-time enrollment
- Hands-on lab experience
- Designed for working professionals
- Bridge program to a master’s degree
Courses are created from critical points of an electrical engineering bachelor’s degree core curriculum at a pace and intensity that is reflective of, and appropriate for, a post-baccalaureate student.
Develop electrical engineering skills
- Theory, design, analysis, and application of DC and AC circuits
- Digital logic, including Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, and binary, octal and hexadecimal number systems
- Characteristics and application of electronic devices, including small-signal and large-signal analysis, operational amplifiers and design of digital logic circuits
- Power system analytical concepts, representation and classifications of continuous and discrete time signals
- Embedded systems from hardware and software perspectives and how they interact to accomplish real-world tasks
Bridge your education into a master’s program
Successful completion of the graduate certificate program provides a pathway for admission into the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.
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Alumnus Paul Marsh, GCEEF ’16 and MSEE ’18, shares his experience as a graduate student and how he leveraged his undergraduate education in plastics engineering and vehicle design to pivot his career into EE.
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