Computer Engineering
We live in a world drawn ever closer together by the instantaneous exchange of ideas and information - and computer engineers have helped make it happen. From giant multinational telecommunications networks to the tiny hand-held devices that tap into them, computer engineers design and build the hardware and software systems that run the global marketplace.THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE
GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY. As an undergraduate, you’ll work in our research centers: Advanced Computing Technology, Knowledge and Information Discovery and Intelligent Systems and Controls.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A HOT CAREER. A recent US News & World Report counts software engineering among its "20 Hot Job Tracks," identifying professionals in this field as a "white-hot commodity."
The Student Perspective
THREE FOR ONE. You can combine your major in computer engineering with a major in electrical engineering and still have room for a minor in another area — such as philosophy, physics, math or even business — all in fi ve years and without summer school.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR STUDIES. Choose from a wide variety of electives to develop deeper expertise in at least one of the computer engineering areas of software engineering, hardware engineering, computer applications and intelligent systems.
BUILD THIS...OR SOMETHING BASED ON IT. Concentrate your studies in intelligent systems and you will study systems inspired by the neural workings of the human brain, still the world's most complex computer.
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Suggested curriculum
Your major courses blue.
Freshman
- Freshman Seminar
- Introduction to Computer Programming
- Engineering Discovery I
- Engineering II
- Rhetoric and Composition I & II
- General Chemistry I
- Calculus I & II
- Introduction to Theology
- Diverse Cultures Elective
Sophomore
- Electric Circuits I & II
- Circuits Lab I & II
- Electronic Devices and Applications
- Introduction to Computer Hardware and Software
- Software Methodologies
- Engineering Orientation
- Calculus III
- Data Structures for Engineers
- Differential Equations
- Philosophy of Human Nature
- Histories of Cultures and Societies Elective
Junior
- Computer Hardware
- Digital Electronics
- Digital Electronics Laboratory
- Operating Systems and Networks
- Computer Engineering Elective
- General Physics with Calculus I & II
- Statistical Methods
- Theory of Ethics
- Individual and Social Behavior Elective
- Discrete Math for Engineers
Senior
- Principles of Design
- Senior Design Project
- Embedded Systems Design
- Six Computer/Technical Electives
- Literature and Performing Arts Elective
- Theology Elective
WHERE OUR GRADUATES GO
Within three months of graduation, nearly 100 percent of Marquette computer engineering grads are working full time or in graduate school. Our graduates typically choose careers in software design and engineering, computer design and development, product sales and management with employers such as::
- Abbott Laboratories
- GE Healthcare
- Hewlett-Packard
- Johnson Controls Inc.
- Motorola Inc.
- Rockwell Automation
- Texas Instruments
A number of graduates also go to law, business and medical schools every year.
