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Computer Engineering—BS

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Reach Your Potential with Michigan Tech

Computer engineering is a steadily growing field, and the world needs skilled professionals who can work comfortably on both the software and hardware sides of a computer system. A computer engineering degree from Michigan Tech will make you uniquely qualified to bridge this gap and succeed as a computer-integration specialist.

As a Michigan Tech student, you will be taking advantage of some of the best opportunities in the nation for laboratory-based learning, real-world design, and engineering entrepreneurship.

Focusing on Your Future

As a graduate of the computer engineering program, you will have developed the versatility to work in numerous fields, including embedded systems, computer networks, robotics, or VLSI system design. Your career options can range from movie special effects to designing nanotechnology for bionic implants and beyond.

 

Educational Objectives and Programs Outcomes for the B.S. in Computer Engineering

What to Expect

Program Educational Objectives

A computer engineer views a computer-based system as a continuum of technologies spanning both sides of the traditional analog/digital systems boundary and the traditional hardware/software boundary. The ability to integrate all of these technologies into a single system, and to make hardware/software trade-offs, makes the computer engineers uniquely qualified to conceive, design, and build complete computer-based systems to serve a wide variety of applications.

We expect that during the first three to five years following graduation, our graduates will:

  1. Successfully apply their knowledge and skills in computer engineering to specify, design, model, implement, program, and test integrated hardware/software systems as creative solutions to engineering problems.
  2. Function as responsible and ethical members of the profession and society with an understanding of the social and economic ramifications of their work.

Graduates opting for an industrial career path will:

  1. Succeed in entering commercial computer engineering practice as demonstrated by such indicators as:
    1. obtaining their first promotion,
    2. contributing to the competitive edge of their employer,
    3. being a productive member of an engineering team,
    4. demonstrating individual technical capability,
    5. generating high quality technical documentation,
    6. pursuing continuing education.

Alternatively, within three to five years following the completion of their degree, graduates pursuing an academic career path will:

  1. Succeed in full time graduate studies at highly respected graduate schools as demonstrated by either:
    1. earning a masters degree, or
    2. having made satisfactory progress toward a doctoral degree.

Nothing but the Best . . .

  • Enjoy using state-of-the-art facilities filled with cutting-edge equipment, including lasers, microprobes, robots, anechoic chambers, and more.
  • Join the Enterprise Program, and find your place in a student-led “company” that works on multi-year projects for company sponsors. The Electrical and Computer Engineering department sponsors four teams of its own: