Great Career Opportunities Multiple Job Offers
Classes and Labs Taught by Professors (Not by Teaching Assistants)
State-of-the-Art Industrial Robotics Laboratory
The computer engineering program blends practical computer science courses in computer organization, databases, operating systems, and networks with traditionally hands on electrical engineering courses in digital circuits, digital system, embedded microprocessor systems, computer programming, and digital signal processing. This combination gives you a broad-based education that ties software to hardware and theory to application.
While the emphasis in the computer engineering curriculum is to provide a solid background in all related areas, it does contain significant computer programming, embedded systems, and digital electronics. Additionally, the computer engineering curriculum enables students to specialize in the area of robotics and automation by pursuing that concentration built into the technical electives of the degree.
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Since a typical LSSU engineering class has about 15 students, you will have the chance to work closely with your instructors, not graduate students, all of whom are full-time teaching faculty members. The small class size also promotes interaction in the lecture and the laboratory with other students and with your instructor.
Recognizing that learning comes through doing as well as listening, all LSSU engineering programs are designed to include a significant amount of engineering practice along the way. The core of computer engineering curriculum contains 12 engineering courses of which 9 contain a laboratory component. Additionally, most technical elective courses also contain laboratory components. Many of these laboratory activities include a capstone project. This means that you will have ample opportunity to learn through experience.
LSSU Computer Engineering Graduate Derreck Wonnacott comments on how his education prepared him for his job in the robotics industry
All LSSU engineering students participate in a senior project. Our senior projects span two semesters during the senior year and are usually sponsored by an industrial customer. A typical senior project team is comprised of four or five students having various engineering and engineering technology majors. The team works directly with their customer to complete the project. Skills such as leadership, team work, financial budgeting, project management, technical writing, presentations, and design reviews are just among the many soft skills that are honed through this experience. It truly prepares student for the future in both industry and academia.
LSSU engineering alumni are successful and engaged in meaningful careers in both Michigan and internationally. Recent graduates of the computer engineering programs have worked for Boeing, Tesla, Ford, Camsensor, Yazaki, Honeywell Aerospace, QComp, and Gentex. Others have gone on pursue graduate degrees at institutions such as Michigan Technological University and Michigan State University.
The path to becoming a computer engineer is challenging but very rewarding. It involves completing a four-year curriculum that is filled with challenging classes in mathematics, computer science, the physical sciences, and, of course, engineering. At LSSU we strive to equip our students and to provide a learning environment that maximizes success in both their studies and future careers.
The School of Engineering & Technology’s Computer Engineering bachelor’s degree program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Computer Engineering.
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