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Program Details
The Faculty of Engineering and Design’s Electrical Engineering program under the Department of Electronics teaches you how to design, develop, test and manage components and systems that enable everyday life, ranging from semiconductor chips to power systems.
The Bachelor of Engineering’s Electrical Engineering program is fully accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, allowing graduates to meet the educational requirements for registering as a professional engineer.
Our unique program allows for specialization in radio frequency and microwave circuits and applications, communication circuits, integrated circuit design and fabrication, semiconductor and nanoscale technology and devices, or electrical energy and power.
State-of-the-Art Facilities
Carleton is one of the few universities in Canada with its own facilities for manufacturing integrated circuits.
Work Experience
A Co-op option is available. Co-op is the opportunity to get a head start on a career. Co-op work terms allow for the development of key employability skills, exploration of career options and graduation with tangible, workplace experience.
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Career Outcomes
Explore your passions, refine new skills and discover the career that’s right for you.
The skills learned through the study of electrical engineering are highly transferable and will prepare you for a wide range of careers.
Sample Careers
- Biomedicine
- Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering
- Communications Technology
- Computing Hardware Development
- Electrical Power Systems
- Fibre Optic Communications
- Health
- High-Speed Integrated Circuit Chips
- Local Area Networks
- Network Technology
- Satellite Communications
- Smartphones
- Software Design
- Vehicular Electronic Controls and Navigation
Sample Courses
ECOR 1043 - Circuits
Electrical Quantities (Voltage, Charge, Current, Power). Conservation of charge and energy. Mathematical models of simple devices. Elementary circuit theory for passive elements. Thévenin's and superposition theorem. Signal filtering and amplification. Time and frequency domain. Circuit design and simulation.
ELEC 2602 - Electric Machines and Power
Modeling and analysis of basic electric power systems. Single-phase and three-phase circuits: real and reactive power, per-phase analysis, power factor correction. Electro-mechanical energy conversion: operation, characteristics and analysis of transformers, DC-, induction-, and synchronous electric machines. Motor and generator operation.
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