Electrical Engineering
Colorado School of Mines
electrical@mines.edu | 303.384.2465
Brown Hall 310C, 1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401
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Creating Leaders
The Electrical Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines is the top choice in Colorado for students who seek to become leaders in the engineering profession while serving the community and society at large. The program provides cutting-edge educational training, research experience and project-based learning, with specialties in antenna and wireless communications, information and systems sciences and energy systems and power electronics as well as numerous opportunities to work in interdisciplinary fields.
Our highly accomplished and internationally recognized faculty conduct leading-edge research and have strong ties with local, national and international industrial partners, national laboratories and other research institutions. Students at all levels have the opportunity to conduct research with faculty and graduate with the skills needed in the workforce or academia.
Our undergraduate electrical engineering degree caters to various industries including electric power and energy, renewable energy, aerospace, communications, robotics, and diverse industries that rely on embedded intelligence to manage data and systems.
The department offers master’s and doctoral programs as well as certificates in data science for signals and systems; antennas and radar technology; radio frequency and microwave engineering; and smart grid, power electronics and electrical power systems.
Your Career Options
A Degree Employers Value
See where an electrical engineering degree from Mines can take you. Mines ranks among the top in the nation for return on tuition investment, with students receiving excellent salary offers upon earning their degrees. Employers prize our alumni not just for their knowledge, but for their problem-solving skills, ability to work with others and perseverance.
A Problem-Solving Major
Teaching Associate Professor Chris Coulston explains how electrical engineering is perfect for those who want to design and build new technologies.
Faculty Spotlight
Kathryn (Katie) Johnson
Dr. Johnson has been awarded a Ben L. Fryrear Endowed Chair for Innovation and Excellence to drive institutional change at Colorado School of Mines.
Endwoed by Mines alum Ben Fryrear '62 in 2017, the chair recognizes and supports highly accomplished Mines faculty members working to further the vision and mission of the university, for a term of three years.
Dr. Johnson, who also holds a joint appointment at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), plans to focus her Fryrear term on macroethics for sustainability by creating a supporting community of Mines faculty incorporating both their teaching and research.
Please see more information here: Kathryn Johnson Named Fryrear Chair for Innovation and Excellence.
News
Tenure-Track Faculty and Teaching Faculty Open Positions in EE
Interested in working for Electrical Engineering at Mines? Please see the following announcement for open positions in the department, then click on...
EE Faculty Changes AY2021-2022
New Hires Hisham Sager Mona El Helbawy Retirements Randy Haupt Resignations Gungguo Tang Emeriti Faculty Jeff Schowalter Emeritus Teaching...
Professor Wakin to be elevated to IEEE Fellow on January 1st. Congratulations!
The following is from an email Prof. Wakin received: Dear Michael B. Wakin: Recognizing the achievements of its members is an important part of the...
Our Research
Antenna and Wireless Communications
The Electrical Engineering Department has an internationally recognized faculty (two IEEE and ACES fellows) in the antennas and wireless communications areas with diverse but closely related interests and expertise in computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic radiation and scattering, antennas and antenna arrays, microwave circuits, radar, remote sensing, electromagnetic measurements and more.
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From Our Students
I think the Electrical Engineering department at Mines is amazing. I am doing things now that I never would have dreamed I would ever be able to do while I was in high school.
Paige Granie, Class of 2020
#4 Top 25 Brainiest Colleges, #1 in Colorado (Lumosity, 2019)
6 faculty fellows of the professional organization IEEE
19:1 student-faculty ratio
#2 in combining scholarly research and classroom instruction (Wall Street Journal, 2016)
#1 for career return on investment (Georgetown University, 2019), #2 best college value (Money Magazine, 2018)