University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Electrical Engineering

A Department of the College of Engineering

Undergraduate Program

Electrical engineering is primarily concerned with the production, transmission, and utilization of electrical energy and the transmission and processing of information. The curriculum is designed to provide a broad education in fundamental principles and laboratory applications and an awareness of the socioeconomic impact of technology. Technical electives are normally selected from advanced courses in electrical engineering to provide for specialization in selected areas. However, technical electives can also be selected from courses offered by other departments of the College of Engineering and Technology or from appropriate physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biological sciences courses.

Employment opportunities for electrical engineers cover a wide spectrum of activities including design, development, research, sales, and management. These activities are carried on in industrial organizations, public and private utilities, the communications and computer industry, governmental and educational institutions, and consulting engineering firms. The objective of the undergraduate program in electrical engineering is to offer students an education which will enable them to be productive electrical engineers and to be active, contributing citizens of the nation and the world.

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• Mustafa "Cenk" Gursoy, assistant professor of electrical engineering, received "The 2004-2007 Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking Best Paper Award" from the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), founded in 1978. The award will be presented during the 17th EUSIPCO Conference: August 24-28, 2009 in Glasgow, Scotland. Gursoy co-wrote the award-winning paper, "On-Off Frequency-Shift Keying for Wideband Fading Channels," published in 2006, with H. Vincent Poor and Sergio Verdœ.

• P. Frazer Williams, UNL's Lott Distinguished Professor Emeritus with the Department of Electrical Engineering, is one of 360 journal reviewers receiving the American Physical Society's Outstanding Referee designation, a lifetime honor, in 2009. The APS has 47,000 physicist members worldwide.

• Dr. Paul Snyder, Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, recently received a Recognition Award from the UNL Teaching Council and UNL Parents Association. This is the second recognition award Snyder has received.



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