1. ECSE Department Programs

2. Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Degree Programs Electric Power Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer and Systems Engineering

3. ECSE Department Programs Prof. Kenneth Connor Chair, ECSE Office – JEC 6010 Phone – 8552 Email – connor@rpi.educonnor@rpi.edu URL – http://www.rpi.edu/~connorhttp://www.rpi.edu/~connor –Copies of these slides can be found on this webpage See also – http://www.ecse.rpi.eduhttp://www.ecse.rpi.edu

4. ECSE Department Programs What Is? Electrical Engineering – the application of the laws of physics governing electricity, magnetism, and light to develop products and services for the benefit of humankind. Computer Engineering – the design, construction, implementation, and maintenance of computers and computer controlled equipment for the benefit of humankind. Power Engineering – the design, construction, implementation and maintenance of devices, materials and systems for the safe, reliable and economic generation, transmission, distribution, conversion, measurement and control of electric energy for the benefit of humankind.

5. ECSE Department Programs (366,000 Members) Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Antennas and Propagation Society (9,000 Members) Broadcast Technology Society Circuits and Systems Society (16,000 Members) Communications Society (50,000 Members) Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society Computer Society (88,000 Members) Consumer Electronics Society Control Systems Society (10,000 Members) Council on Super Conductivity Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society Education Society

6. ECSE Department Programs IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Electron Devices Society (13,000 Members) Engineering Management Society Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society Industrial Electronics Society Industry Applications Society Information Theory Society Intelligent Transportation Systems Council Instrumentation and Measurement Society Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (9,000 Members) Magnetics Society Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (12,000 Members) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Neural Networks Council

7. ECSE Department Programs IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Power Electronics Society Power Engineering Society (22,000 Members) Professional Communication Society Reliability Society Robotics & Automation Society Sensors Council Signal Processing Society (18,000 Members) Society on Social Implications of Technology Solid-State Circuits Society (14,000 Members) Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society Vehicular Technology Society

8. ECSE Department Programs Where EE Jobs Are – IEEE Spectrum 1/04 Power Communications Semiconductors Transportation Computers Bioengineering

9. ECSE Department Programs Power Winner: Hybrids Loser: Fission Breeder Reactor Holy Grail: Fusion

10. ECSE Department Programs Communications Winner: Broadband Loser: Smart Dust (GEMS) Holy Grail: Fiber to the Home

11. ECSE Department Programs Semiconductors Winner: Gallium Nitride Loser: Electron Projection Lithography Holy Grail: Semiconductor Lighting

12. ECSE Department Programs Transportation Winner: Superconducting Motors Loser: Fuel Cells Holy Grail: Hypersonic Flight

13. ECSE Department Programs Computers Winner: Analysis Engine Loser: Microsoft SPOT Holy Grail: The Infinite Archive

14. ECSE Department Programs Bioengineering Winner: Bioinformatics Loser: Carbon Sequestration Holy Grail: Genomics

15. ECSE Department Programs Smarter Cars

16. ECSE Department Programs Wireless Networking The range of a wireless network can be extended using an antenna made from a Pringles can (now being done by ECSE students) http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

17. ECSE Department Programs Robotic Surgery A doctor in New York removing a woman’s gallbladder in France.

18. ECSE Department Programs Telemedicine Hub Retired satellites have new uses

19. ECSE Department Programs Climate Changes Development of Accurate Modeling Tools

20. ECSE Department Programs Fuel Cell Power Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle

21. ECSE Department Programs Linking With Light

22. ECSE Department Programs The Shrinking Transistor Intel Transistor

23. ECSE Department Programs Additional Information on History, the Profession, Etc. http://ieee-virtual-museum.org/ The IEEE Virtual Museumhttp://ieee-virtual-museum.org/ http://www.eweek.org/ National Engineers Weekhttp://www.eweek.org/ Feb 20-26 2005

24. ECSE Department Programs Career Information IEEE http://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/studentcareers _text.htm http://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/studentcareers _text.htm ESCAPE (Purdue) http://FrE.www.ecn.purdue.edu/FrE/ESCAPE/ http://FrE.www.ecn.purdue.edu/FrE/ESCAPE/ About Electrical and Computer Engineering (Discover Engineering Online) http://www.discoverengineering.org/Engineers/electri cal_engineering.asp http://www.discoverengineering.org/Engineers/electri cal_engineering.asp GradNet http://gradnet.iec.org/index.asphttp://gradnet.iec.org/index.asp IEEE Spectrum Careers

25. ECSE Department Programs More Career Information National Society of Professional Engineers http://www.nspe.org/students/ National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering http://guidemenacme.org/ Society of Women Engineers http://www.swe.org/ National Society of Black Engineers http://www.nsbe.org Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers http://www.shpe.org/

26. ECSE Department Programs Job Descriptions from Company Websites Intel http://www.intel.com/jobs/index.htm?iid=Hom epage+IntelLinks_jobs& http://www.intel.com/jobs/index.htm?iid=Hom epage+IntelLinks_jobs& Texas Instruments http://www.ti.com/recruit/index.htm http://www.ti.com/recruit/index.htm Motorola http://motorolacareers.com/index2.cfm?srcCo de=10838943 http://motorolacareers.com/index2.cfm?srcCo de=10838943 Maxim http://www.maxim- ic.com/AboutMaxim/Jobs/StartPage.htmhttp://www.maxim- ic.com/AboutMaxim/Jobs/StartPage.htm

27. ECSE Department Programs Job Search Sites Engineering Center http://www.engcen.com/ http://www.engcen.com/

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31. ECSE Department Programs Additional Information How Stuff Works – Started by ECSE grad Marshal Brain http://www.howstuffworks.com/http://www.howstuffworks.com/ How Things Work from the University of Virginia http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/ http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/ The Straight Dope http://www.straightdope.comhttp://www.straightdope.com