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What is Electrical Engineering

What is Electrical Engineering. What’s all that math and physics good for?. Want to design the next… IPOD, MP3, DVD players. What’s all that math and physics good for?. Cell phones WII, Playstation. What’s all that math and physics good for?. Heart-rate monitor

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What is Electrical Engineering

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  1. What is Electrical Engineering

  2. What’s all that math and physics good for? Want to design the next… • IPOD, MP3, • DVD players

  3. What’s all that math and physics good for? • Cell phones • WII, Playstation

  4. What’s all that math and physics good for? • Heart-rate monitor • RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)

  5. What’s all that math and physics good for? • Radar • Satellite Communication • Security system…

  6. What’s all that math and physics good for? Advanced surgical unit Who do you think designs all this stuff??

  7. Time to Wake Up!!! • Which Profession has the highest starting salaries with a Bachelors Degree?

  8. Salary SurveyEveryman’s favorite!!! Electrical Engineering - SJSU $ 65,075 Electrical Engineering – National $ 55,292 Business $ 44,000 Education $34,000 Electrical Engineering also has the highest average salary over $125,000 -by National Association of Colleges and Employers 2007 -by Career Center SJSU – Survey 2007

  9. Venture Capital Survey2nd Quarter 2007 FundingSan Jose Mercury News 8/12/07 Networking and Communications 34 Companies Areas Satellite Antennas Lasers Systems Universal coverage for mobile devices Video Servers Bandwidth Technology etc.

  10. Venture Capital Survey2nd Quarter 2007FundingSan Jose Mercury News 8/12/07 Hardware/Energy 26 Companies Areas Process Control Equipment Network Storage Video Recordings Renewable Energy

  11. Venture Capital Survey2nd Quarter 2007 FundingSan Jose Mercury News 8/12/07 Semiconductors 26 Companies Area: RFID Analog Technology Mixed Signal Technology Consumer Entertainment Systems Automotive/Robotic Sensors

  12. Venture Capital Survey2nd Quarter 2007 FundingSan Jose Mercury News 8/12/07 Biomedical/Health 47 Companies Areas: Biosensors for diagnosis Injectable Implant Products Diagnostic Test Equipment RF Device Systems Implantable Medical Devices

  13. Electrical Engineering The Disciplines of Silicon Valley CEO’s Discipline Bachelors Graduate Total Electrical Engineering 42 33 75 Other Engineering 18 18 36 MBA 0 32 32 Business 20 6 26 Sciences 7 11 18 Computer Science 6 7 13 Economics 8 0 8 Mathematics 6 0 6 The primary discipline of Silicon Valley CEOs, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, is Electrical Engineering -by San Jose Mercury News 11/28/2007

  14. Future of Science Science and Engineering expected to grow 5% percent per year Other areas expected to grow 1% per year -The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman

  15. The Need for Engineers The US graduates only 66,000 engineers each year There are 1,300,00 engineering positions not filled due to lack of engineers to fill them. Source Bill Gates 4/2008

  16. Market is Hot for High Tech Skills in Silicon Valley “14% of all the jobs in Silicon Valley today belong to a sector called core design, Electrical Engineering and Science”. This is the highest of any region in the US. -byWall Street Journal 2-28-06

  17. Reasons to Choose EE @ SJSU Nationally Ranked & Student Success Location & Internship Opportunities Cost of Tuition Largest Number of New Hires to Silicon Valley Global Technology Initiative Laboratory Work Student Resources

  18. Nationally Ranked Consistently ranked in the top 10 non-Ph.D. Departments Electrical Engineering Programs for Non-Ph.D Universities 2008 The Electrical Engineering Department is ranked 2nd among all US state supported schools -by U.S. News and World Report

  19. Student Success Most recent student project won the 1st place for Zero Emission Car at the “National Idea-to-Product” competition in March 2007 CBS5 News Report

  20. Location & Internship Opportunities - Heart of Silicon Valley! • Hundreds of INTERNSHIP opportunities • Your first full-time job is right outside the door!

  21. Cost of Tuition Private universities $29k–38k/year (Santa Clara, Stanford) University of CA: in-state fees $7,034/year University of CA: out-of-state fees $26,102/year (UC-Berkeley, UCSC, UC-Davis) Cal State (SJSU): in-state fees $3,548/year Cal State (SJSU): out-of-state fees $12,540/year Best Deal! - by UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University, 2007.

  22. Corporate Scholarships The following companies award scholarships to EE students at San Jose State University Applied Materials Atmel Cadence Hewlett Packard Intel Intersil Lam Research Lockheed Martin National Semiconductor Novellus Rockwell Collins Solectron Xilinx

  23. Largest Number of New Hires to Silicon Valley • EE @ SJSU has a powerful network of alumni • Companies regularly look to SJSU for interns and new hires

  24. A Partial List of the Companies that hired EE student to well paying internships in 2007 • Agilent • Alien Technology • Alliance ATE • Analogic Tech • Applied Materials • Aquest Systems • Atmel • Berkeley Consulting Group • Broadcom • Cisco • Credence • Cypress Semiconductor • HP • IBM • Intel • Intersil • ISE Labs • KLA-Tencor • Linear Technologies • LSI Logic • Lockheed Martin • Marvell • Maxim • NASA Ames • National Semiconductor • Qualcom • Rockwell • Sipex • Verigy • Teradyne • SanDisk • Zero G Wireless

  25. A Partial List of the Companies that hired new EE Graduates in 2007

  26. Some Successful Graduates of the EE Program Titles are both past and/or present

  27. Global Technology Initiative • Scholarship trips to Pacific-rim countries • Speakers from multi-national companies

  28. Laboratory Work • Focus on hand-on experiences • Industry sponsored labs for education and research: • IC Design Lab (Cadence) • Process Integration Lab (Synopsys) • RF Integrated Circuit Lab (Atmel) • Analog Mixed Signal Test Lab (Agilent) • Digital Design Lab (Xilinx) • Networking Lab (Cisco) • Digital Signal Processing Lab (Intel, TI) • Many other state supported labs • Senior Project Lab

  29. EE Laboratories

  30. StudentResources • IEEE • Academic Advisors • Technical Staff • Computer Labs • Career Center • King Library

  31. Recap: There are lots of reasons to choose EE at SJSU Nationally Ranked & Student Success Location & Internship Opportunities Cost of Tuition Largest Number of New Hires to Silicon Valley Global Technology Initiative Laboratory Work Student Resources

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