Electrical Engineering Technology

This degree program offers courses in a wide range of areas including embedded microcontrollers, power and controls, analog and digital electronics, communication circuits and systems, and technical electives in satellite transmission, wireless communications, fiber-optic communications, and telecommunications network management.

The students benefit from a strong emphasis on the development of oral and written communication skills. Graduates are firmly rooted in modern technology using state-of-the-art industrial equipment and are able to contribute immediately in the workplace as technologists with problem solving and design project experiences. A quality education and individual academic advising are continuously provided throughout the student's program of study.

Students completing the degree program will obtain knowledge in power systems, controls, microcontrollers, sensors and instrumentation, as well as the growing area of mechatronics. Potential employers include IBM, CODEX, Bank of America, ITT, GE, ConEd, Verizon, MTA, Honeywell, and Northrop Grumman. Graduates may continue toward a master’s degree in electrical engineering at City College or other institutions of higher learning.

Graduates are eligible to receive maximum education/experience credits for the BTech degree as a “professional engineering program” toward New York State licensure in professional engineering. Additional work experience is necessary to obtain a professional license.

Learning Outcomes

1. This degree will equip students with the ability to secure entry level positions, and sustain successful careers, beyond entry level, as electrical or electronic technologists.

2. This degree will equip students to embark on careers leading to personal and professional growth by achieving increasing levels of responsibility and leadership, and respect for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

3. This degree will equip students to pursue life-long learning to enhance their degree, through formal education and/or certification in order to improve their careers and benefit society.

General (Adopted from ETAC/ABET Criterion 3)

Students demonstrate:

1. an ability to apply knowledge, techniques, skills and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve broadly defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline;

2. an ability to design systems, components, or processes meeting specified needs for broadly defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline;

3. an ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in broadly defined technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature;

4. an ability to conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments and to analyze and interpret the results to improve processes; and

5. an ability to function effectively as a member as well as a leader on technical teams.

Discipline Specific (Adopted from ETAC/ABET Program Criteria)

Students demonstrate:

1. the application of circuit analysis and design, computer programming, associated software, analog and digital electronics, and microcomputers, and engineering standards to the building, testing, operation, and maintenance of electrical/electronic(s) systems;

2. the application of natural sciences and mathematics at or above the level of algebra and trigonometry to the building, testing, operation, and maintenance of electrical/electronic systems;

3. the ability to analyze, design, and implement one or more of the following: control systems, instrumentation systems, communications systems, computer systems, or power systems;

4. the ability to apply project management techniques to electrical/electronic(s) systems; and

5. the ability to utilize differential and integral calculus, as a minimum, to characterize the performance of electrical/electronic systems.

Articulation Agreements

This degree has articulation agreements with Engineering, Physics and Technology at Bronx Community College and Engineering Technology at Queens Community College. Please refer to the college website to see the full text of the agreements.

Accreditation

The program is accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org/.

Advisement Information

Advising hours are scheduled each semester, posted on the college and department websites and the department's bulletin boards, and emailed to all students.

Certifications are granted by the NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers), ETA (Electronics Technicians Association), and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) student chapters at ETET-NYCCT.

These chapters play important roles for engineering technology students at the New York City College of Technology.

The main goal of these student chapters is to benefit all its student members through industry exposure and support in achieving several professional engineering licensure-categories for those who are interested.