Electrical Engineering

BSE

You’ll have many hands-on opportunities to develop your skills and determine what type of career experience you would like after graduation, with opportunities to earn a significant paycheck in nearby internships and co-ops over summer breaks and even during the academic year.

Here are some of the businesses where our electrical engineering degree students have had internships, co-ops or launched their careers:

• ABB
• Eaton Corporation
• GE Healthcare
• Generac Power Systems, Inc.
• Honeywell
• Johnson Controls
• Leonardo DRS
• Milwaukee Tool
• Rockwell Automation
• WEC Energy Group

In your senior year, you’ll team up with other students to complete a Capstone Project led by the Chief Electrical Officer at GE Healthcare. You’ll work as a group to use what you’ve learned in class to complete an experience similar to a real-world employer project.

View senior design projects here.

Association of Energy Engineers

AEE promotes the scientific and educational interests of those engaged in the energy industry and to foster action for sustainable development.

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IEEE is dedicated to helping students by providing networking opportunities, mentoring, project guidance, and more.

Robotics Association

RA UWM gives students with a passion for robotics an outlet to express that passion through designing, building, testing, programming, and competing with our robots against universities from around the world.

For full descriptions and contact information for all electrical-engineering and other engineering-related student organizations and clubs, click here.

Electrical Engineering Lab

As an Electrical Engineering student, you’ll have plenty of hands-on learning opportunities in this lab, from computer simulation through building and testing phases of projects, whether for your freshman Electrical Engineering course or your senior capstone design experience, providing you hands-on experience that employers value. In addition to this general-purpose lab, the Electrical Engineering department has dedicated teaching labs for power electronics, electric machines, and digital/microcontroller design and testing.

Resource Rooms

UWM students have a wealth of additional resources available to them within the College of Engineering & Applied Science. From computer labs and tutoring resources to teaching labs and spaces to create or collaborate. Details here.

A benefit of attending a top tier R1 research university is the opportunity to work with faculty engaged in cutting-edge research and to participate in the Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) program. The SURF program helps you to improve your professional preparation through research by closely working with our faculty to explore, discover, and transform ideas into reality.

SURF students also receive funding for their efforts: from 2012-2023 almost $1.5M was awarded to over 700 students from our college.

Graduate and undergraduate students also have the opportunity to participate in the annual Research Poster Competition & Experiential Learning Expo, providing them with excellent opportunities to share their work with judges from industry.

Directed by the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, the UWM Student Startup Challenge is an optional, co-curricular program that fosters our students’ innovative and entrepreneurial ideas. You can work alone or as part of a team as you gain the skills that come from entrepreneurial experience.