Undergraduate Program Tour
Student feedback and participation
The department places significant value on obtaining feedback from the students in order to review and improve the services it provides. The feedback is obtained through both formal and informal channels that, for example, include:
- A Town Meeting every semester, in which the students can voice their concerns to the departmental administration.
- The department administration meets with student leaders – the ECE officers of the Student Advisory Council, the student branch of IEEE, and Eta Kappa Nu, and WinECE.
Student Advisory Council (SAC)
The ECE SAC is a volunteer student organization that provides feedback to the Department regarding educational and student issues and concerns. For example, SAC organizes semesterly Town Hall meetings. SAC organizes a "Take Your Advisor To Lunch" program, in which advisors and their advisees go to lunch, sponsored by the Department.
Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
The ECE Department has an active student branch of the IEEE that sponsors a number of activities, including:
- Annual Technical Opportunities Conference, in cooperation with the Society Of Women Engineers, involving representatives of industrial organizations in a day-long "booth fair" forum
- Evening seminars by speakers representing industrial organizations
- Weekly "pizza breaks" for Electrical and Computer Engineering undergraduates
- Faculty-student social events, including an early Fall Welcome Back Cookout
- Annual distribution of IEEE t-shirts
- A Career Talk day, in which each semester an informal forum is established for students to ask designated faculty members questions about career opportunities
The Department pays for the first year's IEEE membership for all incoming Electrical and Computer Engineering sophomores in order to encourage early professional fraternalism.
Eta Kappa Nu
The Sigma Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu in ECE honors undergraduate students with excellent academic records, and, each year at Commencement, honors an ECE faculty member with an Outstanding Teaching Award. ETA Kappa Nu also sponsors a number of activities including:
- Annual initiation dinner
- Annual Lockheed Martin Project Competition
- Annual industry-sponsored faculty-student Skating Social
- Weekly Wendnesday late night study break