Projects and Careers Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alumni Employment
Electronics Engineer for BMT Scientific Marine
Hardware and Software Engineer for Fluke
Production & Test Engineer for MidNite Solar
Developer for AVA.ai
Embedded Systems Software & Firmware Consultant for San Juan Software
Electrical Engineer for Anvil
Systems Operations Engineer for Powin Energy
Electrical Engineer - Product Design - Fluence Energy
Component Engineer - Boeing
Embedded Systems Engineer - PACCAR
Job Market
The job market for Western's Electrical and Computer Engineering graduates is very good - consistently rated as one of the top programs at Western for both placement and salary. See the most recent Employment Survey Results to compare Electrical and Computer Engineering students with other graduates. Students are given a broad, hands-on education in electrical and computer engineering, preparing them for a diverse selection of jobs.
Current Research
Asst. Professor Bhaskar Ramasubramanian
My research focus has been in the fields of software-defined secure verification and feedback-driven machine learning to reason about the behavior of autonomous cyber systems. I adopt a multidisciplinary approach that establishes an interplay between fundamental techniques from machine learning, optimization and control, game theory, and formal methods.
(l to r) Jared Hechter, Brandon Chea, Brandon Nakamura, and Jonah Duncan
Assistant Professor Bhaskar Ramasubramanian's summer research students working to understand and develop algorithms to improve behaviors of autonomous vehicles when they share their environments with human drivers. The students have been reading recent research in this domain, and working with the Nocturne driving simulator. They have also been spending part of their time trying to assemble a 1/10-scale RC car and with the goal of deploying reinforcement learning algorithms.
Cognizant Learning for Autonomous Cyber Physical Systems, funded by the National Science Foundation
Senior Capstone Projects
The senior capstone project is completed over a duration of 13-15 months. The projects are centered around real-world engineering design problems and seek to incorporate the hands-on curriculum with a design component.
Current project areas include:
- embedded systems
- artificial intelligence
- integrated circuits
- cyber-physical systems
- alternate energy/smart grid
- next-generation wireless systems
- wearable biomedical systems
Lab Equipment
- Meters
- Mixed Signal Oscilloscope
- Power Supply
- Function Generator
- Solderless Breadboard
- Programmable Timer/Counter
- LabVolt Workstations
- SCARA Robot Arm
- Circuit Board Mill
- Spectrum Analyzer
