program self-study report - Lamar University Electrical Engineering

*Crum--named for Regents Professor Floyd Crum and endowed by Charles Garrett (LUEE '59).*Garrett--named for Charles and Eleanor Garrett and endowed by Charles Garrett (LUEE '59).Harlow--named for Robert Harlow (LUEE '71) and endowed by Hunter Henry.1.5 Job Opportunities for Undergraduate StudentsThe Department is fortunate to have a significant industrial base in the Southeast Texas region with manymajor corporations engaged in petrochemical production. The demand for Electrical Engineering talent isstrong and many companies offer our students engineering internships each semester. These internshipsoften turn into full-time offers of employment when the students have graduated.In addition to these industry internships, students also have access to co-op work positions to work at someof these same industries. A co-op job is one in which students work for a period of time that runsconcurrently with each semester. At the time they are working, most of these students are not enrolled forclasses on campus. The purpose of these co-op work positions is to enable students to gain some veryvaluable engineering work experience and start building a resume to reflect this. Students have experienced avariety of co-ops over the past few years in such varied places as Texas Instruments in Dallas, as well asDupont, Motiva, Entergy and others in the region.1.6 Honorary and Professional SocietiesThe Delta Beta chapter of Eta Kappa Nu has been active since its original charter on March 26th of 1960.The Lamar University IEEE Student Branch is also active and provides a professional venue for all EEstudents. The Beaumont Section of Region Five interacts regularly with the student branch, sharingspeakers and events. The Beaumont Section also sponsors our students to the IEEE Region V studentcompetitions such as papers, robotics and design.2. Program Educational Objectives2.1 Institutional Mission StatementsThe Mission of Lamar University, the College of Engineering and the Electrical Engineering Program arepresented below. The department mission was developed by the EE faculty along with input from ouradvisory board. We stress the preparation of students for life-long learning and for acceptance into societyas productive citizens in a multi-cultural world, where each mission statement addresses increasinglygranular expressions leading to the specifics of our electrical engineering program as defined by ourprogram objectives (2.2 (a)).EE Program Self-Study Report-2006 10