Computer Engineering

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering

  • The Computer Engineering program will provide a strong background in both electrical engineering and computer science. A strong emphasis is placed on laboratory activities and student engineering design projects, with a particular focus on the design of hardware and software for engineering systems that use embedded digital processors such as microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors and personal computers.

  • High School Preparation

    General admissions criteria
    Upper level math
    Upper level science courses
    Early development of computer skills

  • Careers


    • Computer engineer
    • Embedded systems engineer
    • Embedded software engineer
    • Computer hardware engineer
    • Computer software engineer
    • Computer consultant
    • Computer systems engineer
    • Computer design engineer
    • Design and development engineer
    • Software test engineer

    This is a new program at UW-Stout, career placement and salary statistics are not yet available.

    View our Annual Employment Report for more details.

  • Freshmen Sample Schedule

    Fall
    Calculus I
    College Chemistry
    Freshman English - Composition or Freshman English - Honors I
    Computer Science I
    Health and Physical Education

    Spring
    Calculus II
    University Physics I
    Freshman English – Reading or Freshman English – Honors II
    Computer Science II
    Health and Physical Education

    See our Undergraduate Bulletin for more information on these courses.

  • Contact

    Bob Nelson, Program Director
    332 Fryklund Hall
    University of Wisconsin-Stout
    Menomonie, WI 54751-0790

    Phone: 715/232-1984
    E-Mail: nelsonro@uwstout.edu
    Program website: http://www.uwstout.edu/programs/bsce/

This is a sampling of courses you may take within this major.

Electric Circuits

Review of basic electrical quantities from physics such as charge, current, voltage, energy, power and resistance.

Electronics

Introduction to semiconductor physics, modeling of basic semiconductor devices such as diodes, bipolar and field effect transistors and thyristors.

Digital Logic

Analysis and design of combinational and sequential logic circuits. Boolean algebra, number systems and logic gates.

Signals and Systems

Linear system modeling using differential and difference equations, continuous and discrete convolution.

Digital System Design

Analysis of logic families at the device and circuit level. Switching characteristics of Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT’s) and Metal Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) transistors.

Microprocessor System Design

Study of the internal organization of microprocessors including Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), registers, memory addressing, internal bus structure, interrupt structure, serial and parallel Input/Output (I/O), bus timing and protocols.

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation

Review of electrostatics and magnetostatics from physics, review of vector algebra and vector calculus from mathematics.

Data Communications & Computer Networking

Coding and modulation techniques for data transmission, error detection and error correction techniques will be studied.

Digital Signal Processing

Review of discrete time systems in the time and frequency domain including difference equations, convolution and Z-transforms Sampling techniques, signal reconstruction and aliasing.

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