Modern industry requires engineers who can design products integrating hardware and software, circuits and algorithms, and who can apply this expertise to application areas such as: Computer Architectures, Computer Communications, Computer Systems, Digital Design and Interface, Information and Signal Processing, and Control and Automation. This is the role of the Computer Engineer. To function effectively, computer engineers must be able to work in multidisciplinary teams and communicate effectively.
The vision of the Computer Engineering (CmpE) program at UC Riverside (UCR) is to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed:
- To pursue the two primary alternatives after graduation, which are to obtain employment in industry or pursue graduate studies.
- To succeed in a career involving a lifelong learning process.
The curriculum is also designed to provide the breadth and the intellectual discipline required to enter professional careers in fields outside engineering such as business and law.
The UCR CmpE program has the following objectives:
- To provide a well-rounded and balanced education through required studies in elected areas of the humanities and social sciences.
- To provide the broad fundamental training in the areas of engineering, mathematics, science, and statistics that will serve as the foundation on which the students’ subsequent CmpE training will be built.
- To cover in sufficient depth those fundamental areas required for CE students to understand, design, and use computers and the engineered systems that contain computers.
- To provide extensive, relevant laboratory and hands-on experience to strengthen understanding of scientific, logical, statistical and engineering principles.
- To integrate the use, design, and interfacing of computers throughout the undergraduate CmpE program.
- To emphasize both oral and written communication throughout the CmpE curriculum.
- To teach students to apply theoretical knowledge to design problems common to modern computer engineering practice, using structured design methodologies and state-of-the-art tools.
- To allow students the freedom to mold their programs of professional specialty studies by allowing each student to choose from a broad array of technical electives.
- To maintain a schedule of course offerings allowing timely completion of degrees.
- To ensure the high-quality undergraduate education necessary for a student to progress to the M.S. and Ph.D. degree level and/or succeed in an industrial career.
Assessment of Program Objectives
The CmpEProgram has established the following methods to evaluate its success in achieving its educational objectives:
- Industrial Advisory Board – This group has recently been created by inviting engineers working in industry who have either hired our students or stated an interest in hiring our students. The objective is to obtain feedback concerning our program from one of our key customers.
- Survey of Graduating Seniors – The objective of this survey is to obtain feedback from one of our key customers while the program is still fresh in their minds.
- Alumni Survey – The objective of this survey is to obtain feedback from one of our key customers after they have begun to implement the fruits of our program in their lives and careers.
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