Careers in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Most of our students receive several job offers before graduation. Both electrical engineering and computer engineering are broad-based disciplines that provide for a wide range of career choices within the engineering field as well as providing an excellent basis for careers in such diverse areas as business, law, and medicine.

Our graduates are consistently well-placed in government (such as WPAFB, Naval Surface Warfare Center etc.) and industry (such as Sprint, TRW, Harris Corp., GE, FM Global, STL of Ohio, AFMETCAL etc.) Nationally, there will be more jobs than expected graduates for the next decade. In 2011, the average annual salary offer for ELE and CPE graduates was $60,379.

Electrical engineers are equipped to enter careers in electro-optics, communication, radar, signal and image processing, biomedicine, controls, robotics and instrumentation, and many more in industries such as computer, communication, automotive, medical, entertainment and aerospace and homeland security. Electrical engineers work in all phases of technological programs, from the conception of the basic ideas through design, fabrication, verification, manufacturing, and marketing of the final product.

Computer engineers are perhaps the most sought-after professional component of an engineering team. You develop the technological possibilities inherent in the design, construction, and operation of computer systems and perform a wide variety of tasks involving hardware, software, peripherals, computer-controlled systems, and hardware-software integration, as well as computer applications in a multitude of areas.

University of Dayton computer engineering graduates work for prestigious organizations in fields such as aerospace, audio systems, biomedical engineering, instrumentation, medical electronics, music, networks, photonics, and ultrasonics.