Electrical Engineering

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Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineers design and manufacture computer hardware; sensors; biomedical instrumentation; communication systems; control systems; radar and navigation equipment, as well as power generation equipment and propulsion systems.

Brown's Sc.B. degree in Electrical Engineering is designed to allow students to construct a program tailored to their interests. Building on the broad scientific foundation provided by the core curriculum, students may select combinations of upper level courses designed to prepare them for seven areas of specialization within Electrical Engineering. It is possible to switch between these specializations as late as senior year.

The program has the following general structure:

The interdisciplinary engineering core, taken during the first two years;
Three advanced Electrical Engineering courses (ENGN1570 ‘Linear Systems,’ ENGN1620 ‘Design of Electronic Circuits,’ and ENGN1630 ‘Digital System Design’)
One advanced Electrical Engineering foundation course that serves as a gateway to the traditional Electrical Engineering specializations of bioelectrical engineering, communication systems, computer engineering, multimedia signal processing, microelectronic systems, and solid-state electronics and photonics.
Two additional upper level courses may be selected from a list of Electrical Engineering elective courses to define a student-designed specialization.
A capstone design course
An advanced science course
Four approved humanities courses

For complete requirements, please see the University Bulletin.

SEM.	COURSE	DESCRIPTION
I	ENGN 0030 or ENGN 0032	Introduction to Engineering or Introduction to Engineering: Design
	CSCI 0150 or CSCI 0170*	Intro to Object-Oriented Programming or Integrated Intro to CS
	MATH 0190	Single Variable Calculus, Part II (Physics/Engineering)
	Elective †
II	ENGN 0040	Engineering Statics and Dynamics
	MATH 0200 §	Multivariable Calculus, Part III (Physics/Engineering)
	CSCI 0200	Program Design with Data Structures and Algorithms
	Elective
III	ENGN 0410	Materials Science
	ENGN 0510	Electricity and Magnetism
	APMA 0350	Applied Ordinary Differential Equations
	Elective
IV	ENGN 0520	Electrical Circuits and Signals
	ENGN 0720	Thermodynamics
	APMA 1650	Statistical Inference I
	Elective
V	ENGN 1570	Linear Systems
	ENGN 1630	Digital Electronics
	Elective
	Elective
VI	ENGN 1620	Analog Electronics
	MATH 0520 or APMA 0360	Linear Algebra or Applied Partial Differential Equations
	Upper Level Course **	EE Upper-Level Elective
	Elective
VII	PHYS 0790 or PHYS 1410	Physics of Matter or Quantum Mechanics A (Advanced Science)
	ENGN 1000 or ENGN 1650	EE Capstone Design
	Elective
	Elective
VIII	Upper Level Course	EE Upper-Level Elective
	Upper Level Course	EE Upper-Level Elective
	Elective
	Elective

† A minimum of four electives must be in the humanities and social sciences

* Only one CSCI course is required, so CSCI0111 or APMA0160 can be used instead without continuing to CSCI0200

§ Students with advanced placement credit and a strong interest in Electrical Engineering may elect to take MATH 0200 in the first semester and ENGN 0520 in the second semester

** Many upper-level electives are available, one of them can be replaced by an approved interdisciplinary course

Suggested upper level specialized courses
These are provided for guidance only. The requirements allow you to construct plans with other focus areas. For full requirements see the University Bulletin.

Bioelectrical Engineering

ENGN 1230; and one of (ENGN 1220, ENGN 1930B, ENGN 2500 or ENGN 2912L); and one additional course from the following: (ENGN 1220, ENGN 1610, ENGN 1930B, ENGN 2500, ENGN 2912L, CLPS 1491. CLPS 1520, or NEUR 2110).

Communication Systems

ENGN 1580; and (ENGN 1560 or ENGN 1690); and one additional course from the following (ENGN 1560, ENGN 1610, ENGN 1640, ENGN 1650, ENGN 1690, or ENGN 2530).

Computer Engineering

CSCI 0330; amd ENGN 1640; and one additional course from the following (ENGN 1580, ENGN 1600, ENGN 1610, ENGN 1650, or ENGN 2530).

Multimedia Signal Processing

ENGN 2530 or ENGN 1610; and two additional courses from the following (ENGN 1580, ENGN 1610, ENGN 1640, ENGN 1650, ENGN 2500, ENGN 2530, ENGN 2540, ENGN 2560 or CSCI 1230).

Microlectronic Systems

ENGN 1600; ENGN 1640; and one additional course from the following (ENGN 1590, ENGN 1680, ENGN 2530, or ENGN 2912K)

Solid State Electronics and Photonics

ENGN 1590; (ENGN 1560 or ENGN 1690); and one additional course from the following (ENGN 1450, ENGN 1560, ENGN 1600, ENGN 1680, ENGN 1690, ENGN 1931A, or PHYS 1420).