Electronics and Communication
Seats available in this branch : 120 seats
A Growing Need
Electronics & Communication engineering draws on many disciplines all linked by a common thread: the generation, control, and use of electromagnetic energy. Electronics & Communication Engineers use its various forms—including direct or alternating currents, radio waves, visible light and X-rays—to sense the world around us, shape the flow of energy and data, explore and cure the human body, activate remote robotic systems and more.
What Do Electronics & Communication Engineers Do?
Electronics & Communication Engineers can be found driving innovation in a wide range of industries. Here are just a few examples:
- Communications: designing hardware and algorithms for energy-sipping 4G cell phones, high-definition TVs, and Bluetooth devices
- Health Care: developing sensors and instruments for diagnosing diseases (CAT, MRI, PET)
- Remote Sensing: designing radar and optical systems that probe Earth and space to monitor weather, ecology and global warming
- Consumer Electronics: developing digital cameras, Blu-ray players, GPS devices and noise-canceling headphones
- Transportation: designing sensors and control systems for smart highways and high-speed railways
- Robotics: creating robots that can see, feel, and understand their environment
- Defense and Homeland Security: developing hardware and advanced algorithms for autonomous vehicles, secure battlefield communications, automated luggage scanners and video surveillance
Career Opportunities
- Fibers, lasers and non-linear optics
- Nano- and bio-photonics
- Solid-state circuits, devices, and materials
- Space physics
- Quantum optics and communications
- Biological and medical signal processing
- Communication and sensor networks
- Computational and systems biology
- Decision theory, control and optimization
- Image and video processing
- Information theory and communications
- Machine learning and statistical signal processing
- Network security
- Tomographic imaging and inverse problems
Major Recruiters
- Microsoft
- Hewlett-Packard
- Motorola
- Dreamworks
- Raytheon
- Teradyne
- Draper Labs
- Toyota
Why Study at GLOBAL
Two words: our faculty. As leaders in their respective fields, they are well-grounded in the latest technologies and are often the masterminds behind them. Faculty members provide undergraduate students with one-on-one advising and opportunities to work in labs.
In addition, our high-tech instructional labs provide an unparalleled environment for coursework, extracurricular exploration and teamwork. Our challenging curriculum prepares students for both the workforce and graduate school.
Our graduate students have opportunities to work on cross-disciplinary topics, ranging from nanobiology to fiber lasers, smart lighting to advanced signal processing. We expect our graduate students to present their work at national and international conferences, publish in leading journals and become active members of our community, and we offer excellent possibilities for funding and support.
