Engineering at Grove City College in the Albert A. Hopeman, Jr. School of Science and Engineering means excellence – excellence in teaching, faculty, educational facilities, and a campus environment which supports and honors moral and spiritual values.

Grove City College’s Electrical Engineering Program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD  21202-4012,  telephone: (410)347-7700.

Your engineering career in the Hopeman School begins with experienced, dedicated faculty – not teaching assistants. Instruction using the latest technology is provided in both small-group and individualized settings in the classroom and the laboratory.

The Grove City College Electrical and Computer Engineering Department aims to equip its graduates to be effective engineering professionals, demonstrating strong technical, communication, and team skills while maintaining a standard of integrity consistent with a Christian world view. 

CURRICULA

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Grove City College offers the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (B.S.E.E.) degree, with two concentration options: Electrical Engineering (EE) and Computer Engineering (CE).

Both the EE and CE options offer a balance between theoretical courses and practical engineering design experiences. Incorporated into the practical aspects of the program are such topics as engineering ethics, societal and environmental concerns, and engineering economy. An unusual feature of the program is that these and other topics can be approached from a Christian viewpoint.

The design experience begins in the freshman year with a required group project in Introduction to Engineering (ENGR 156). Several courses in the sophomore and junior years also incorporate group design projects.

The EE design experience culminates in the senior year with the Senior Experience in Electrical Design (SEED). SEED integrates the required courses Electrical Engineering Design (ELEE 401) and Experimental Electrical Engineering (ELEE 451 and 452) to provide a truly comprehensive capstone design experience, complete with research, problem definition, preliminary design, detailed design, implementation, testing and redesign. SEED participants are required to include in their project one or more advanced topics from the three stem courses: Control Systems (ELEE 421-422), Communication Systems (ELEE 431-432), and Computer Systems (ELEE 441-442). A few examples of the many recent SEED projects include a solar-powered water filtering device appropriate for village use, a fire-fighting robot entered in  an international competition, a software-defined-radio system, and a portable "wire-tracing" device that locates hidden wires by sensing the magnetic fields near them.

Although both the EE and CE options contain a high level of instruction and experience in computer programming and hardware, the CE option is designed to focus specifically on these areas, in order to better prepare students for the many computer related careers now in industry. Both EE and CE students are required to take an introductory programming course in the C++ language (COMP 141) as well as a course in digital circuit design (ELEE 204). CE students opt for additional computer related courses instead of some of the specialized EE topics, including a series of courses in the junior and senior years dealing with advanced C++ programming, operating systems, microprocessors, software engineering and computer architecture (ELEE 310, 441, 442 and COMP 220, 450).  Both EE and CE options include junior electives for students to pursue particular interests in their field.