Transcript EE Career (ppt)

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Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Careers
Neil E. Cotter
University of Utah
Overview
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EE and CE briefly described
Salaries and companies who
hire
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Case studies of EE/CE jobs
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Lessons learned
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What is Electrical Engineering?
Electrical Engineers are inventors and
innovators who apply knowledge of
signals, circuits, physics, and systems to
develop technologies to improve people's
lives
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What is Computer Engineering?
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Computer Engineers design and program
computer systems, small and large, to
improve people's lives
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How do CS and CE and EE Differ?
CS
CE
EE
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Are there EE and CE Jobs?
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Example: EE’s 2011 (CE’s
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46 of 53 graduates had job offers / grad
school acceptance by graduation day
Many had multiple offers
Average reported starting salary:
$59,000
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What are Salaries by Industry?
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Who Hires U of U Graduates?
ATK
Bachtel Marine
Harman Signal
Proc.
Hill AFB
Knolls Atomic
Power
L-3
Communications
Micron
Moog Aircraft
Navsea
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Northrop Grumman
Raytheon
Reliable Controls
Rio Tinto
Rocky Mtn. Power
Sorenson
Communications
Varian Medical Syst.
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Case Study: Speech Recognition
Write software to
decode speech
waveform
Use frequency
analysis to
detect vowel
sounds
Use probabilistic
models to guess
which phonemes
were most likely
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Case Study: Pulse Deconvolution
Shoot X-rays at
object, detect
photon
emissions
(pulses)
 Pulse size and
quantity indicate
makeup of
sample
 Undo the overlap
to determine
original pulses,
(math problem)
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Case Study: Modeling Heat Flow
Induction
furnace in steel
mill heats by
creating eddie
currents in bar
 Model of cooling
derived by (slow)
numerical
simulation
 Nonlinear differential
equation used to
model temperature in
real-time
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Case Study: Security System
A Hall effect
sensor can
detect if a door is
open
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A central computer
can monitor a farm
of storage lockers
Fast turnaround in
prototyping creates a
business opportunity
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Case Study: Auditory Prosthesis
Auditory prosthesis
stimulates auditory
nerve electrically
To create proper
sound, flow of
current must be
controlled
Threshold tests with
patients determine
how current spreads
out from electrodes
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Case Study: Fuzzy Control
An algorithm is
needed to control the
positioning of a large
motor
Fuzzy logic
translates operator
knowledge into
control signals
An adaptive
algorithm tracks
performance and
tweaks the control
algorithm
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Lessons Learned
Your immediate boss
is the most important
person in the
company
 Do what you love
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In school, individual
performance rules;
in industry, teams
rule
 Figure out how
you can help,
instead of looking
smart
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