Electrical and Computer Engineering – (B.Sc.)

The tremendous developments in microelectronics over the last three decades have triggered a digital revolution with the computer being in the center. While we still think of a computer as a desktop or a laptop, digital computing and digital signal processing has already penetrated many other products of our everyday lives such as cars, mobile phones, cameras, household appliances, etc., and this trend is set to continue. Students of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) will receive a first-class education with focus on modern fields like digital signal processing, communications, control, micro and nano electronics, photonics, and computer architecture.

The courses offered in the first year provide a general overview over a broad range of ECE topics, as well as an intensive training of programming skills. With suitable choices of generallectures in the first year, students can still easily change to the sister majors EECS or CS. Even changes to other majors are possible, but usually require to fill a gap in lab courses in the second year. This flexibility is uncommon at most state universities in Germany. In years two and three, students will on the one hand increasingly specialize within ECE, and on the other hand benefit from the transdisciplinary openness that is the hallmark of Jacobs University and take courses from neighboring disciplines, complementing their in-depth ECE training. Students thus learn to adapt their knowledge and expertise to a variety of tasks. This is an invaluable asset in astudent’s future career.

Research is an essential part of student education at Jacobs University. Enabled by a very low student to faculty ratio, students will participate in real research work even during bachelor education. Faculty is working in exciting areas of modern electrical engineering, for example: digital signal processing, digital communications, coding theory, wireless and wireline communications, reliability studies in VLSI, organic devices.