Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Objectives
Educational objectives are statements that describe the expected accomplishments of our graduates during the first few years following graduation from the program. The objectives of the Electrical Engineering program at Ohio University are the following:

These statements are what most people call early career accomplishments. It is important that these Objectives be understood by all the School’s internal and external constituencies. We also realize the importance that all published versions of the program’s objectives be the same.

The School of Electrical Engineering has in place a clearly defined process of periodically evaluating the educational objectives of both of its programs by all internal constituencies involved.

The process is defined as follows: “During the school’s annual retreat where all constituents (the Advisory Board, all the faculty and student representatives) are invited, the assessment results of the program educational objectives are discussed and the objectives are re-evaluated as needed.

In order for the program to accomplish these objectives, a set of program outcomes have been developed and implemented throughout the curriculum. These are listed below:

• Ability to Design:
  Students must demonstrate that they can take an incomplete problem specification to a complete engineering solution.
• Ability to Learn:
  Students must demonstrate the ability to learn new things.
• Acquire Information:
  Students must demonstrate the ability to acquire new information and to be able to use that information in the process of analysis, problem solving, and design.
• Business Skills:
  Students must demonstrate an understanding of the business and engineering economic skills necessary to being a successful professional in the 21st century.
• Career Responsibility:
  Students must demonstrate an understanding of career issues that will impact their future.
• Communication Skills:
  Students must demonstrate an ability to read, write, listen, and speak effectively. It is expected that the students will have the ability to communicate significant technical information in a clear, concise, and simple manner.
• Customer Knowledge:
  Students must demonstrate an understanding and an ability to identify the various needs of one’s customers.
• Enjoy Learning:
  Students must demonstrate the love of learning.
• Ethics:
  Students must demonstrate an understanding of ethics as they relate to the accomplishment of their engineering tasks. They also must demonstrate that they can apply this understanding in a manner that leads to ethical behavior.
• Experimental Skills:
  Students must demonstrate a level of experimental skills that will contribute to enhance engineering skills through discovery, as well as to verify ideas, concepts, and design through successful experimentation techniques.
• Fundamentals:
  Students must demonstrate a thorough understanding of fundamentals in mathematics, basic science, and engineering science.
• Interpersonal Skills:
  Students must demonstrate an ability to use interpersonal skills that are relevant to being successful in their profession.
• Liberal Education:
  Students must demonstrate that they have an understanding of themselves and society.
• Sensitivity to Diversity:
  Students must demonstrate an understanding of factors that will impact their ability to be productive and effective in a culturally and ethnically diverse working environment.
• Team Member:
  Students must demonstrate the ability to work successfully as a productive member of an engineering team.

• Depth and Breadth: Produce graduates who will have the theoretical, practical, and professional knowledge necessary for them to be productive upon entering the workforce or successful in advanced study.
• Professionalism: Produce graduates who exhibit an understanding of the necessity for personal integrity, ethical behavior, and cultural awareness.
• Staying Current: Produce graduates who will develop and maintain the knowledge and skills needed to identify, formulate, and solve problems throughout their careers.