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Electrical and Computer Engineering
Careers
Neil E. CotterUniversity of Utah
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EE and CE briefly described
Salaries and companies who hire
Case studies of EE/CE jobs
Lessons learned
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Electrical Engineers are inventors and innovators who apply knowledge of
signals, circuits, physics, and systems to develop technologies to
improve people's lives
What is Electrical Engineering?
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Computer Engineers design and program computer systems, small
and large, to improve people's lives
What is Computer Engineering?
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How do CS and CE and EE Differ?
EECECS
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Example: EE’s 2011 (CE’s similar)
Are there EE and CE Jobs?
46 of 53 graduates had job offers / grad school acceptance by graduation day
Many had multiple offers
Average reported starting salary: $59,000
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ATK Bachtel Marine Harman Signal
Proc. Hill AFB Knolls Atomic
Power L-3
Communications Micron Moog Aircraft Navsea
Northrop Grumman Raytheon Reliable Controls Rio Tinto Rocky Mtn. Power Sorenson
Communications Varian Medical Syst.
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Write software to decode speech waveform
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Use frequency analysis to detect vowel sounds
Use probabilistic models to guess which phonemes were most likely
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Shoot X-rays at object, detect photon emissions (pulses)
Pulse size and quantity indicate makeup of sample
Undo the overlap to determine original pulses, (math problem)
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Induction furnace in steel mill heats by creating eddie currents in bar
Model of cooling derived by (slow) numerical simulation
Nonlinear differential equation used to model temperature in real-time
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A Hall effect sensor can detect if a door is open
A central computer can monitor a farm of storage lockers
Fast turnaround in prototyping creates a business opportunity
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Auditory prosthesis stimulates auditory nerve electrically
To create proper sound, flow of current must be controlled
Threshold tests with patients determine how current spreads out from electrodes
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An algorithm is needed to control the positioning of a large motor
Fuzzy logic translates operator knowledge into control signals
An adaptive algorithm tracks performance and tweaks the control algorithm
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Your immediate boss is the most important person in the company
In school, individual performance rules; in industry, teams rule
Figure out how you can help, instead of looking smart
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