Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering - Solid State Devices

A degree in electrical engineering from UIC will give you the knowledge and skills you need to join their ranks. Electrical engineering is always extending its boundaries into new areas of technology. Electrical engineers are developing the technology needed to power electric cars far beyond the range of today’s batteries and charging stations. They are working on nanoscale devices that have the potential to reshape medical diagnosis and treatment. Electrical engineering is helping us to be more energy-efficient and exploring ways to make renewable energy useful to a greater proportion of the world’s population.Solid state devices is a wide area of electronic devices and systems based on semiconductors. Those materials could be elemental semiconductors, such as silicon (Si) and germanium (Ge), or compound semiconductors that combine two or more materials from the periodic table, such as GaAs, InP, and AlGaAs. Silicon, the most studied material in the periodic table, has been the material of choice for semiconductor device fabrication since the early 1960s. Compound semiconductors, on the other hand, have electrical properties superior to Si and are now replacing Si in high-speed electronic applications. The main advantage of these semiconductors is that their electronic properties can be precisely tailored to specific electronic and photonic applications. The solid state device area concentrates on theory and device fabrication to provide a solid background for future electronic device development.

Successful graduation of year 12 and completion of college preparatory curriculum.Minimum GPA - 3.0