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Graduate programs in signature areas of strength enhance our primary mission and provide excellent opportunities for graduate students and undergraduate students to participate in faculty-mentored research and professional opportunities.
Educational Objectives and Outcomes
The Program Educational Objectives for the Computer Engineering and the Electrical Engineering degrees are:
The Program Outcomes for the Computer Engineering program are:
The Program Outcomes for the Electrical Engineering program are:
The Software Engineering Program Educational Objectives are:
The Software Engineering program has the following seven desired outcomes:
- Graduates are expected to have become contributing professionals in society.
- Graduates are expected to have exhibited intellectual growth after graduation.
- Graduates should be satisfied with their undergraduate education from Clarkson.
- Some graduates should have risen to positions of leadership in the profession.
- Those graduates who are especially talented and motivated to seek the Ph.D. should be successful at entering and completing graduate studies.
The Program Outcomes for the Computer Engineering program are:
- In the required course sequence, students are expected to master fundamentals of hardware and software design.
- Students will have experience in using state of the art software and engineering tools.
- Students will have developed their teamwork and communication skills.
- Students should have the ability to design an integrated hardware/software system to meet desired specifications.
- Students should have an appreciation for the importance of extracurricular and community involvement.
The Program Outcomes for the Electrical Engineering program are:
- In the required course sequence, students are expected to master the essential topics that are needed in the courses that follow.
- Students will have experience in using state of the art software and engineering tools.
- Students will have developed their teamwork and communication skills.
- Students should have the ability to design an engineering system to meet desired specifications.
- Students will have experience in close faculty interaction, extracurricular activity, and community involvement.
The Software Engineering Program Educational Objectives are:
- Graduates are expected to have become contributing professionals in society.
- Graduates are expected to have experienced professional development and exhibited intellectual growth after graduation.
- Graduates should be satisfied with their undergraduate education from Clarkson.
- Some graduates should have risen to positions of leadership in the Software Engineering profession.
- Those graduates who are especially talented and motivated to pursue a graduate degree should be successful at entering and completing graduate studies.
The Software Engineering program has the following seven desired outcomes:
- Students will have a fundamental understanding of computer systems.
- Students will be able to apply engineering principles to software design and construction. They will be able to:
- develop software requirements and functional specifications,
- use proven techniques to design software structure before it is implemented,
- apply established verification and validation techniques,
- the importance of constructing large software systems using standardized components and reusing existing code (modules) where possible,
- use software tools as effective aids in all phases of software development,
- design, develop, and deliver software in a cost effective manner.
- Students will have experience with issues encountered at every stage in the software life-cycle.
- Students can work in an interdisciplinary team on software components of a system.
- Students should have good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Students can readily assimilate new technologies.
- Students can understand the impact their discipline has on society
