MISSION STATEMENT
To develop a highly trained,consummate engineer: able to lead, to practice in a professional manner, to grow with technological
advances, to express himself or herself in written and in oral form, to function as a project engineer immediately upon graduation and
to pursue graduate studies in a variety of professional fields.

Program Objectives

• Our graduates will have positions where they function as first-class project engineers.
• Our graduates will have positions that require exceptional technical knowledge and professional design skills.
• Our graduates will engage in activities that involve professional-level written and oral expression.
• Our graduates will engage in activities that require demonstrating leadership skills.
• Our graduates will engage in activities that demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning, research, independent thinking and innovation.

Electrical Engineering students begin with basic courses in electrical circuits and signal processing (as well as computer engineering, depending on their chosen area of study). All disciplines within Electrical Engineering also take core courses in mathematics, physical sciences, and humanities in Freshman and Sophomore years. By mid-Sophomore year, EE students are required to select an area of study which will determine their choice of courses and electives for the remaining two years. Students have the option of choosing between the following three areas:

• Computer Engineering
• Electronic Systems and Materials
• Signal Processing and Communications

Each student is assigned a faculty advisor who will assist with the planning of electives in order to focus on the area of interest as well as with electives that will help broaden the educational experience. Students also have the option of taking graduate level courses as part of the integrated five-year master's program.
The curriculum provides ample opportunities for practical work through team and individual projects along with strong theory, grounded in mathematics and science. Project works begin in the freshman year and culminate with year-long senior projects. The goal, by the time students reach senior year, is they will be able to perform open-ended system design, implementation and testing, cost analysis and prepare written and oral presentations. There are also opportunities for numerous research and independent study opportunities involving close work with faculty and professionals from industry.

Graduate Program
The candidate must choose a full-time Cooper Union faculty member fromthe electrical engineering department as one of his or her advisers.Possible areas of concentration or thesis topics are numerous and reflect the diverse interests of the faculty. Some examples are digital signal processing, image and video processing, biomedical engineering, wireless communications, computer networks, machine learning, mapping algorithms to architecture, advanced computing and simulationmethodology, electronicmaterials, integrated circuit engineering and sustainable engineering.  Thesis topics that are research-oriented or targeted towards commercial application are particularly encouraged.