Time to Eat!!

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Time to Eat!!
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Colorado School of Mines IEEE Student
Branch Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers
Presents
Meet the Faculty and General Advising
Session for EE-Specialty Students Friday, Nov
13, 1200-100, BB 125
Power Systems
Computer Vision

• Learn about IEEE Membership
• Get the latest scoop on curriculum requirements
• Hear about the electives available to EE students
• Learn about the 5-yr combined BS/MS option
• Get information on graduate school possibilities
• Talk to faculty and learn about their research

Renewable Energy
Wireless Communications
Power Electronics
Free Food While it Lasts!
Control Systems
Robotics
Humanitarian Engineering
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Agenda

• Welcome!
• Remarks from the Engineering Division Director
  about the new building!
• News from the IEEE Student Chapter
• Advising Session
• Senior Design News Update
• Why EE
• Curriculum Overview
• Spring Updates
• Grad School Opportunities
• Meet the Faculty

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IEEE Officers

• President Jason Sexauer
• Vice President Byron Anderson
• Treasurer Jordan Schmick
• Secretary Griet Devriese
• Webmaster Doug Welch

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Why Join IEEE?

• Get involved on campus with your professional
  society
• Circuits tutoring
• Make professional contacts
• Dinner with Industry
• Monthly events and tours
• National IEEE career services and publications.

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Upcoming IEEE Events

• Firefly Project Assembly
• Mon, Tue, Thur
• Please sign up for a time slot
• Dues must be paid (10 sem/15 year)
• Circuits I Review Sessions
• Wed
• Thur, Dec 10th

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Upcoming IEEE Events

• Firefly Experimentation Day
• TBA (this semester)
• Dinner with Industry
• Sun, Feb 7th (tentatively)
• Stay up to date at
• http//organizations.mines.edu/ieee/

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EGGN491/492

• Cameron J. Turner (ME)
• Candace Sulzbach (CE)
• Jeff Schowalter (EE)
• For Spring 2010

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Myths about Senior Design

• There is nothing to learn about design
• No matter what you do you get a B
• It matters who your Faculty Advisor is
• The projects suck, you can get assigned to a team
  that doesnt need your expertise
• The course is all about management there is no
  engineering involved

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The New EGGN 491/492

• EGGN491
• Reverse Engineering Project
• Assigned Teams
• Learn Design Methods
• Senior Design Project
• Pick your own team
• Apply design methods
• Learn a few more

• EGGN492
• Senior Design Project
• Continues from prior semester
• Course involves topics of professional interest
• Emphasis is on completing the project

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Roles in Senior Design

• Course Faculty
• Turner (ME)
• Sulzbach (CE)
• Schowalter (EE)
• Faculty Advisors
• Help manage teams
• First line of contact
• Grade Teams
• May be technical advisors

• Technical Consultants
• Push the engineering
• Provide expertise
• Clients
• Support the projects
• Provide info to the teams
• You
• Do the work

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Can I propose my own project?

• All projects go through a review process
• Must have adequate design content
• Not be just a research project
• Must have a Client
• You must form a team and meet the requirements of
  the course
• If you do all that
• Yes, you can initiate a project

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Guidelines for Class

• We start fast multiple early lectures and form
  teams fast first assignments are often due by
  census day
• Class is T/Th 8-11AM
• Exceptions to prereqs must be requested in
  writing to the Course Faculty
• Generally, you need to have completed field
  session

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Questions?
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To EE or not to EE
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EE Career Outlook

• Baby boomer engineers are retiring
• Utility executives estimate at least 50 of
  workforce will reach retirement age in next 37
  years
• Consequently, US Bureau of Labor Statistics says
• This will result in excellent opportunities for
  qualified entrants
• Persons with college training or advanced
  technical education will have the best
  opportunities
• Shortage of human capital is hindering growth of
  clean energy industry

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What it means to you

• From 2004-08, US salaries for1
• Energy and power engg jobs ? by 9.2
• Systems and control engg jobs ? by 7.2

Figures taken directly from 1
1 P. Patel-Predd, Engineers are doing well by
doing good, IEEE Spectrum, vol. 45, no. 8, p.
64, Aug. 2008.
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Engineering Employment and Earnings in 2007
From IEEE Spectrum, September 2008 Sources
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational
Employment Statistics, 2007 Occupational Outlook
Handbook, 200809.
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Employment of 2007-2008 grads

• 57 graduates in 07-08
• 51 were placed
• 9 to grad school
• 6 in govt or military
• Rest in industry
• Average salary 56,703

ADA Technologies Aerostream Engineering ATK
Launch Systems ATK Launch Systems Ball
Corporation Barrios Technology Level 3 Lockheed
Martin Lockheed Martin Northrop
Grumman Siemens Sun Microsystems Anvil
Corp. Burns McDonnel Carollo Engineering Carollo
Engineering Scanlon Szynskie Shaw Group Shaw
Group Stanley Consultants Stanley
Consultants Syncroness Washington Group
Intl Washington Group Intl Black Veatch Black
Veatch Fluor Gyrodata Harris Group I.R.E.A. NJ
ShaumSons Utility Engineering Utility
Engineering Air Liquide General Electric Lincoln
Electric Self-employed

• Tips
• Start networking!
• IEEE
• Professors
• Senior design projects
• Interns co-ops
• Great experience
• Can try out field
• Helps land job
• See career center website

Energy and power
Construction, consulting services
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Curriculum and Pre-registration

• Professor Bill Hoff
• BB 314H
• whoff_at_mines.edu

Note This presentation available online at
http//control.mines.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Regi
stration_FAQ
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Spring Semester 2009

• Pre-registration next week (Nov 16-20)
• Advisor
• Dont have one in Engineering? Get one!
• Must see advisor if GPA lt 2.5 to get a PIN
• Good idea anyway to see regularly
• Flowchart
• Get one (from office or web)
• Mark it up with courses youve taken

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EG-EE Flowchart
Make sure you have pre-reqs for 334 it is
needed for 491/492
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Possible Tracks
Energy and Power Power systems, power
electronics, energy engineering 484 Power
Systems Analysis 485 High Power Electronics 486
Small Renewable Energy Sys 487 Energy Systems Lab
Grad courses
Signals and Systems Controls, communications,
microcomputers, biomed instrument. 417 Modern
Control Design 482 Microcomputer Arch 483 Analog
Digital Comm. 430 Biomedical Instrument.
Grad courses
EE Specialty Core Topics Digital, Advanced
Circuits, Electrical Machines, EM
Engineering Foundations Circuits 1, MEL1,
Statics, Thermo,
Breadth, Foundation, and Basics Physics, math,
chemistry, liberal arts, economics,
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Minors and ASIs

• Minors
• You can get a minor in any other dept outside
  Engineering
• Also McBride, Bioengineering Life Sciences
  (BELS), Energy, and Humanitarian Engineering
• Takes 18 hours of courses see bulletin for
  details on which courses count
• ASI (area of special interest)
• Similar to minor, but takes only 12 hours
• You can get an ASI in another specialty in EG
• Notes
• You have to declare minor or ASI with the
  registrar
• You can use your free electives towards
  requirements
• Can count courses you need to take anyway (but
  only 3 hrs in EG)

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News

• EGGN 386 (Engineering Electromagnetics)
• Going to offer in spring semesters only
• If you need it to graduate in fall, see your
  advisor
• PEGN 450 (Energy Engineering)
• We are dropping this course as an electrical
  elective
• Petroleum Engineering is no longer offering

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EE Electives next Spring

• Controls, computers, communications
• EGGN400 Introduction to Robotics
• EGGN483 Analog and Digital Comm. Sys
• CSCI341 Mach Org. Assembly Lang.
• CSCI440 Parallel Comp. for Sci Eng.
• Energy systems
• EGGN485 Intro to High Power Electronics
• EGGN487 Advanced Energy Systems Lab
• Physics/Microelectronics
• PHGN300 Modern Physics
• PHGN320 Modern Physics II
• PHGN435 Interdiscip. Microelectronics Proc. Lab

• Mathematics
• MATH335 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
• Special Topics and Graduate Classes
• EGGN 511 Digital Signal Processing
• EGGN 513 Wireless Comm Sys
• EGGN 517 Theory Design Adv Control
• EGGN 521 Mechatronics
• EGGN 580 Electric Power Quality
• EGGN 586 High Volt AC/DC Power Trans
• EGGN 589 Wind Energy Sys Control

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Why Go to Grad School?

• Specialization
• complements broad CSM Engineering BS
• Research
• ask / discover / shape / innovate / collaborate /
  travel
• define the future of Electrical Engineering
• Career potential (MS)
• deeper, more interesting opportunities
• security against outsourcing and global
  competition
• higher salaries
• Career potential (PhD)
• faculty positions
• research position at a national lab or
  research-oriented company
• Many schools cover tuition and pay a salary

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CSM Engineering-Electrical Grad School Options

• General information
• GPA 3.0 (GRE test waived for CSM BS graduates)
• Apply in early spring (priority Jan. 15), for
  fall admission
• MS or PhD in Engineering, with a specialty in EE
• Energy Systems and Power Electronics track
• Sensing, Communication, and Control track

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CSM EG Grad School Options

• MS degree
• Non-thesis option 30 hours coursework
• Can finish in one additional year (the 5-year
  program)
• Thesis option 24 hours coursework, plus 6 hours
  thesis research
• Most students take at least 2 years to finish
• You may get a teaching or research assistantship
  (TA or RA), which pays tuition and a stipend
• PhD degree
• Can either
• get MS first, then decide to go on for PhD,
• or, apply directly into the PhD program
• PhD candidates have priority for TAs and RAs in
  most cases
• 18 additional hours coursework plus 24 additional
  thesis research hours beyond MS

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EE Faculty at CSM

• Ravel Ammerman Circuits, Power, Machines,
  Electrical Safety
• Sanaa Azim Circuits, Electronics, Control
• Bill Hoff Image Processing, Digital, Computers
• Katie Johnson Control Systems, Wind Energy
• Kevin Moore Control Systems, Robotics
• Jeff Schowalter Instrumentation, Biomedical,
  Electronics
• P.K. Sen Power Systems
• Marcelo Simoes Power Electronics
• Cathy Skokan Senior Design, Circuits, Signals
  Processing
• John Steele Robotics, Control, Microcontrollers
• Sid Suryanarayanan Power systems
• Tyrone Vincent Control Systems
• Mike Wakin Signal Processing
• Manoja Weiss RF/Wireless Communications

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