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, integrated circuits and electronics, 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; information and systems science; microwave engineering; and power and energy 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 Professor Chris Coulston explains how electrical engineering is perfect for those who want to design and build new technologies.
Faculty Spotlight
Please welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Hung-yu Yang!
Dr. Hung-Yu Yang received his B.S. in Physics from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and his Ph.D. in Physics from Boston College. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, before joining Mines.
His research focuses on engineering two-dimensional (2D) superconducting quantum devices for next-generation computing systems. His lab designs and fabricates 2D interfaces by coupling topological, magnetic, and superconducting materials at the atomic scale. His work drives the development of new quantum technologies, including efficient cryogenic electronics, quantum sensing, and robust quantum computing hardware.
He has authored over 25 research papers in leading peer-reviewed journals, and served as a reviewer for international journals and government funding agencies. He is an active member of American Physical Society (APS), working as a Career Mentoring Fellow, session chair, and invited speaker for APS conferences.
News
EE’s Prof. Atef Elsherbeni is a keynote speaker at IEEE IMAS 2026
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Dr. Qiuhua Huang wins CO-WY Climate Resilience Engine Grant!
Read the full article here! Over the past two months, the Colorado-Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine has been focused on identifying and...
EE Students Present at Applied Computational Electromagnetics Symposium
Matthew Dodd, Charles Vath, Nelson Angles, Silje Ostrem, Grace Martinez, Elizabeth Peterson, Kenny Hora, Lisa Elmiladi, Trevor Wolf and Drs. Atef...
Our Research
Antenna and Wireless Communications
The Electrical Engineering department has internationally recognized faculty specializing in antenna and wireless communications. Their expertise spans diverse but interconnected fields, including 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
#1 Best College in Colorado (Wall Street Journal, 2026)
6 faculty fellows of the professional organization IEEE
35:1 student-faculty ratio
#2 in combining scholarly research and classroom instruction (Wall Street Journal, 2016)
$101,000 Average salary for B.S.Electrical
Engineering graduates