UW Professional Master's Program in Electrical Engineering

The University of Washington Professional Master's Program in Electrical Engineering focuses on modern technical topics and the latest university research, giving you the depth you need to drive innovation. In this video, professors and an alumnus talk about how this highly ranked evening program can help you reach your career goals in electrical engineering. Learn more at http://www.ee.washington.edu/admissio....

Video Transcript:

[Mike]
I always wanted to do my master's, but it was impossible to do with working full time and doing master's. So when the evening courses became available through the professional master's program, it seemed like a natural fit.

[Daniel]
Well the, you know, professional master's program is really tailored for engineers working in industry. And that's why we run it at night, so it fits within people's schedules.

[Blake]
The traditional electrical engineering program will focus on those classic areas exclusively: power, signal processing, communication and control. And we do all those, and we do those really well, but we'll take you beyond that to robotics, biomedical applications and alternative energy -- and take you really to the, where the fields are going and what the cutting edge and frontiers are.

[Mike]
We covered everything from protocols at the digital level, digital signal processing, modulation -- all the way to propagation and antennas. So if you take all of that knowledge and combine it together that's exactly what I'm applying here in Kymeta.

[Blake]
If you're getting a master's in our program, you're not trying to be trained to do something in today's world, you're trying to get skills in a toolbox that will work for you 10 years out, throughout your career.

[Mike]
The professors were absolutely outstanding. Regardless of the topic, regardless of the subject, each and every one of them really shows a passion in the work they do and could, in that amount of time, get their material across in a very clear and concise manner.

[Daniel]
And because the classroom is full of people with industrial experience, well we get some really good discussions going with people who really have experience, have already come across these problems and have already a practical view of how, you know, how things work.

[Mike]
I recall that in these classes, we had students with me that were ranging all the way from brand new undergrads to folks that had been in the work force for 30 years.

[Daniel]
It's pretty clear that when you have a master's degree your career prospects are better. You get to work on more challenging problems; you get a better chance at promotions, for example.

[Mike]
The master's allowed me to change the level of responsibility that I have for my engineering. Great work as a staff and principal engineer, but more of my work now regards systems engineering, which means I have to have a broader understanding of the entire system that we're building.

[Daniel]
I think it's a great program because you get a chance to have as teachers a bunch of people who are, you know, great researchers in the field and can incorporate the latest developments in their teaching. You don't find that in too many places.

[Blake]
UW is a great place to get a master's degree because, first of all, it's a very energetic, vital department where all the faculty are really pushing the frontiers in their fields, and also, we're a very highly regarded program, almost unique in the whole northwest region for that.