What is Electrical Engineering?
Where computer engineering is the intersection between hardware and software, electrical engineering is the hardware. Those who major in electrical engineering at South Dakota Mines will gain an understanding for an electrical engineer’s application and design of systems incorporating electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. When applied, electrical engineering talent drives the development of communication and power generation systems, electric motors, and medical devices.
What does an electrical engineer do?
Through the electrical engineering degree at South Dakota Mines, students establish a solid engineering foundation in circuits, electronics, electromagnetics, controls, signals, materials, communications, and power. Students majoring in electrical engineering become proficient in designing, building, and testing electrical products and systems. Do you want to develop prototype sensors used in NASA astronaut space suits? The hands-on and immersive experience is at the heart of this program.
Students studying electrical engineering at Mines can participate in the designing and building of drones, formula race cars, autonomous lunar robots, and Baja vehicles.
Courses for this Degree
• Introduction to Digital Systems
• Foundations of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Test-Driven Software Development
• Programming for Engineers and Scientists
• Circuits
• Statics and Dynamics
• Differential Equations
• Electronic Sensors and Actuators
• Signals and Systems
• Energy Systems
• Electric and Magnetic Fields
• Control Systems
• Electronic, Magnetic, & Optical Properties of Materials
• Applied Electromagnetics
Course Curriculum
Catalog Links: Electrical Engineering
Internships and Co-ops
At South Dakota Mines, 90% of electrical engineering students land internships, earning an average salary of $21.16 per hour. Students in the electrical engineering program at Mines work for these companies and government agencies, to name a few:
- Black Hills Energy
- Burns & McDonnell
- Collins Aerospace
- Daktronics
- EchoStar
- Garmin
- Honeywell
- Kimberly-Clark
- NASA
- Northwestern Energy
- Raytheon Technologies
- Raven Industries