Electrical Engineering

BSE

Our students have had many hands-on opportunities to develop their skills and to determine what type of career experience they would like after graduation, while often earning a significant paycheck 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 begun 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.

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

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

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.

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.

We’re a top tier R1 research university and our students have the opportunity to work with faculty engaged in cutting-edge research in areas such as artificial intelligence, batteries, data visualization, clean energy, power systems and grids, nanotechnology and sensors.

Undergraduates in Electrical Engineering also have the opportunity to get paid to do research with UWM’s SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) Program which fosters a win-win situation for both faculty and students.

Both graduates and undergraduates have the opportunity to participate in the annual Student Research Poster Competition to see who can best represent their research visually on a poster and verbally by describing it to judges.

This optional, elective course is co-taught by an engineering professor and an art professor. As part of an interdisciplinary student project team of engineers, artists and designers, you will learn how to work in teams, present ideas professionally, deliver presentations and take an idea from concept to design to prototype. Your team will be sponsored by an industry member, who will provide engineering a mentor to the team. More detail here.

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.