As a electrical engineer, what would I do?
Electrical engineers play a role in the design of all products and systems that use electricity, including the radios, televisions, cellular phones, computers, and other consumer electronics that surround us. Electrical engineers also design and build devices and systems for industry: everything from ultrasound machines, artificial limbs, and elevator dispatching systems to weather radars, electrical power grids, and the thousands of other electrical systems that we take for granted as part of our everyday lives.
Why Choose Electrical Engineering at Concordia?
Electrical engineering encompasses a wide variety of specializations and opens the door to many different careers. Our program provides a solid grounding in the fundamentals: mathematics, engineering science, circuit analysis, electronics, and computer systems. Students can choose a variety of specializations, including power engineering, electronics and VLSI, control systems, telecommunications, computer systems, and microwave engineering. Students in the Telecommunications option specialize in both the hardware and software aspects of telecommunications networks. Students in the Electronics/Systems option can select from a wide range of elective courses that can be chosen to match their interest in a particular area, such as power engineering, or to design a career spanning several areas, such as computer systems, electronics, and microwave engineering.
Our program emphasizes lab work, with more than 30 courses using up-to-date equipment in modern laboratories. Local companies recognize that Concordia graduates have extensive hands-on experience in the lab. Our courses are taught to small classes by professors who are established researchers and who bring their leading-edge knowledge into the classroom.
In the final year of the program, students team up on a special project to design a solution to a significant engineering problem and to implement their design as a working device or prototype.
Our program is accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board and our graduates are eligible to become registered professional engineers.
Companies that hire Concordia Electrical Engineering graduates
As a graduate of the electrical engineering program, you will be ready for a career in electronics, telecommunications, power systems, robotics, integrated-circuit design, microwave engineering, or computer systems.
Our graduates have found jobs at numerous companies and organizations in Montreal and elsewhere, including:
Agilent Technologies - Ajilon Consulting Canada - ALCATEL - ANRAD - Bell Canada - Bombardier - CAE Inc. - Canadian Space Agency - Cisco - CMC Electronics - Comder - Communication Research Center - Communications Security Establishment - Corel Corporation - Discreet Logic - EMS Technologies - Ericsson - GEMPLUS - Honeywell - Hydro-Québec - IBM - Insight - J.D.S Uniphase - LSI Logic - Marconi Communications - Matrox - Microcell Labs - Motorola - Nortel Networks - NSB Group - Nuvation Labs - PMC Sierra - Pratt and Whitney Canada - SNC-Lavalin - Speechworks International - ST Microelectronics
