Purdue University Northwest

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Career Outcomes

Electrical engineers power the world and are at the center of all communication devices. They design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of a wide range of technologies such as portable music players, global positioning systems (GPS), cell phones, robotics, wired and wireless communication systems, power generation and transmission, and automobile control systems.

Computer engineers make computers faster, smaller, cheaper, and smarter. They design and implement hardware for next generation computing systems; design and analyze computer architectures; design and implement software for applications; design and analyze computer communication system architecture, protocol, network and hardware;