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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.

Electrical engineering lab with Prof. Schilling.

Educational Objectives and Outcomes

Program Educational Objectives
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Software Engineering
 
CONTRIBUTING PROFESSIONAL
1.  Graduates are expected to have become contributing professionals who apply fundamental engineering knowledge and analytical problem solving skills in a wide variety of practical applications.

WELL ROUNDED CITIZENS

2. Graduates are expected to have become well rounded citizens who rely on their engineering education to serve society in an ethical and professional manner.

EFFECTIVE AND RESPONSIBLE COLLABORATORS
3.  Graduates are expected to have become effective and responsible collaborators who function well in diverse team environments.  Some graduates will have emerged as leaders in their field.

INTELLECTUAL GROWTH
4. Graduates are expected to have exhibited intellectual growth and pursue continual innovation in their field.  Those graduates who are especially talented and motivated to pursue a graduate degree should be successful at entering and completing graduate studies.


Learning Outcomes
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Software Engineering

When they graduate, Clarkson Computer, Electrical and Software Engineering students are expected to posses:
  1.   an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
  2. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
  3. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability
  4. an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams
  5. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems
  6. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
  7. an ability to communicate effectively
  8. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context
  9. a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning
  10. a knowledge of contemporary issues
  11. an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.
In assessing the relationship of these Learning Outcomes to our Program Educational Objectives, the ECE faculty has identified the following linkages:

  PEO Related Learning Objective(s)
 1.
Those that foster the technical proficiency necessary to become contributing professionals.
 a,b,c,e,k
 2. Those that foster the attainment of well rounded citizen engineers
 f,h,j
 3. Those that foster the abilities necessary to become effective and responsible collaborators.  d,f,g
 4. The one that fosters continued intellectual growth. i