Electrical Engineering
Electrical engineers are responsible for many of the technologies that drive our modern society. They work in power and renewable energy, electronics, factory automation, wireless communication, antennas and radars, instrumentation, automatic control of cyberphysical systems, optics, computer hardware, machines and drives, and much more.
Undergraduate degrees
Discover electrical engineering, go hands-on with hardware and software tools in numerous labs, and apply engineering concepts as part of our undergrad electrical engineering program.
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Graduate degrees and certificates
Earn a Master of Science (thesis and non-thesis options), Ph.D. and Doctorate of Engineering (DE) degree in electrical engineering with our electrical engineering graduate program.
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Your Career in Electrical Engineering
$71,832
Average starting salary
for undergraduate students as of 2021
$118,950
Average starting salary
for doctoral students as of 2021
The electrical engineering curriculum exposes students to the breadth of the electrical engineering field and allows them to pursue electives in several areas or to emphasize a specialty. Emphasis areas include circuits, electronics, power, communications-signal processing, controls, electromagnetics, optic/devices and computer engineering.
Careers in electrical engineering
Missouri S&T electrical engineering graduates are employed in a variety of organizations and industries, including Intel, Micron Technology, Hewlett Packard, Caterpillar, Motorola, Adtran, NCR, Sun, Guidant, Boeing, Tellabs and the U.S. Air Force. Missouri S&T has among the highest number of companies attend their Career Fair per graduating student of any university in the nation.
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