The space era has brought with it many important developments, discoveries and problems for electrical engineers to turn to man's benefit.  Their biggest challenges lie in the fields of energy production and pollution reduction.  There is important work to be done, for example, in magnetohydrodynamics, the conversion of sea water to a non-polluting electrical energy.  Other special opportunities are available: in bionics, in the development of biological electronic instruments and life support equipment and in research . . . in aerospace, in the formulation of light control systems . . . in the power industry, where demands being placed upon power distribution networks are ever-increasing... in communications, in designing faster, smaller, more accurate and more versatile transmitting and receiving equipment . . . in solid state electronics . . . in computer logic . . . in ecological engineering ... in control of svstems . . . in solar energy engineering.

     Through the Office of Career Services electrical engineers graduating from YSU typically have the opportunity to interview on campus with prospective employers.  Starting salaries have always met the national average for graduating electrical engineers.