Objectives
Society´s development is associated with its infrastructure development and Electric Engineering makes its contribution based on design, planning and operation of the electric sector in the areas of generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy; and in the development of the telecommunications sector. Electric Engineering contributes with its technological developments to make use of electricity in industries, households, massive electrical transportation (clean transportation) and in all of the daily activities, performed by human beings.
Programmatic Objective 1: As an individual.
Promotes in students, environmental, ethical and professional responsibility with society; a systemic thought and critical analysis of its environment.
Programmatic Objective 2: As an electrical and electronic engineer: Develop competencies in students that enables them to acquire, design, evaluate, integrate, analyze, diagnose and develop solutions since electric/electronic engineering so as to generate social wealth and welfare, including the state of the art as part of their discipline and taking advantage of the opportunities to innovate autonomously together with a continuous learning capacity.
Programmatic Objective 3: As an engineer in society. Develop in students the capacity to efficiently identify, formulate, and solve society´s complex problems within an interdisciplinary framework, which involves communication skills and team work.
Study Plan
The plan includes all of the education requirements, not only of optimal professionals, but also of upright, participatory and ethical citizens. It also includes a set of courses in the fields of humanities and social sciences and encourages the responsibilities of students regarding their own education, through a high level of electivity so as to develop towards particular professional profiles.
The Study Plan, since the creation of the program at Universidad de Los Andes, proposed a wide spectrum syllabus in Electric Engineering, emphasizing it on a comprehensive education and use of basic sciences, being in this way, less professionalized and specialized. This coincides with the consolidation aspects of the master’s degree and specialization programs, which respond in a more adequate way to the professionalized needs of the industry, once the professional has been able to insert himself in the work field.
This program is inspired by the following principles:
A basic, broad and rigurous education of the engineer more than one being specialized, narrow or procedural: The program´s purpose is for the electrical engineering alumni of Universidad de Los Andes to continue learning and updating themselves during their professional life. The undergraduate program is seen as the first stage of a continuous education process. Students are trained and specialized directly in the work place or in the university or other institution. During this stage of the student´s education, it is important that the future professional learns to learn by itself, rigorously understanding the principles and science methods, where electrical engineering is based on, more than memorizing formulas or specific procedures. For this purpose, students must learn to efficiently use all of the available resources at the university such as professors, laboratories, libraries, audiovisual and virtual means, computers, internet, etc.
Comprehension based on the balance between theory understanding and the skill to propose and solve concrete problems: The engineer must develop qualifications and skills that include:
Analysis and the consistent dexterity for the application of techniques and analytical methods based on models and mathematical procedures.
Synthesis and creative use of diverse design processes for solving specific problems that use multiple technologies based on the application of a great variety of principles and physical laws. Knowledge based primarily on the personal effort of the student together with team work: Learning must be the result of the student´s personal effort while carrying out precise tasks that range from an adequate reading and critical understanding of texts up to the elaboration of an appropriate analytical case proposal.
Research or Concentration Areas
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Planning, design and operation of electrical networks (Large Power Systems and Industrial Electrical Systems)
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Electronics and quality of electrical power
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Telecommunication systems.
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Control and automation of industrial processes.
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Sectorial regulation
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Alternative energies
Model Program
First Semester
| DERE-1300 | Constitution and Democracy | 3 |
| FISI-1018 | Physics I | 3 |
| FISI-1019 | Experimental Physics I | 1 |
| IELE-1000 | Introduction to electric and electronic engineering | 3 |
| IELE-1001 | Introductory Laboratory to Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 0 |
| ISIS-1204 | Algorithms and Object-Oriented Programming I | 3 |
| MATE-1203 | Differential Calculus | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Second Semester
Third Semester
Fourth Semester
Fifth Semester
| IELE-2100 | Elements of electrical systems | 3 |
| IELE-2101 | Laboratory of electrical systems elements | 0 |
| IELE-2204 | Basics of electronics | 3 |
| IELE-2205 | Laboratory of basics electronics | 0 |
| IELE-2300 | Control Systems Analysis | 3 |
| IELE-2301 | Laboratory of analysis on control systems | 0 |
| IIND-2401 | Investment Decision Analysis | 3 |
| CBU- | Uniandino Basic Cycle Course | 3 |
| IELE-XX2 | Electiva en Ciencias 3 | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 18 |
Sixth Semester
Seventh Semester
Eighth Semester
| CBU- | Uniandino Basic Cycle Course | 3 |
| XXXX- | Elective course | 3 |
| IELE-3001 | Electric Engineering Graduation Project | 3 |
| LENG-3999 | Requirement – Command of a Foreign Language | 0 |
| IELE-3XXX1 | Electrical Elective | 3 |
| IELE-XX4 | Engineering Elective | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Alumni Profile
"A Uniandino Electrical Engineer is a professional who has a rigorous study discipline, ethical and social responsibility and capacities to develop its profession in an autonomous way, with a broad thought as well as leadership, entrepreneurial capacity and social projection. All of these based on a scientific, technological and comprehensive education with solid physicomathematical bases, complemented with knowledge in the economical-administrative and social areas. Said education includes electrical sciences, circuits and systems, electronic devices and circuits, power systems, information, communications and control theories.
The Uniandino Electrical Engineer stands out for his research capacity and the way he acquires, applies and develops techniques and technologies. Additionally, he concentrates his action in the study and analysis of power systems; design and planning of the energy and electric sector, design of basic elements of electric infrastructure; regulation of electric and energy sectors. Additionally, he has the skills to analyze, design and develop devices, circuits and systems to be used in productive and service areas, such as telecommunications, computers, bioengineering and industrial automation."
The Uniandino electrical engineer is a professional capable of planning, designing, administrating, managing, optimizing and controlling systems and technologies in the electrical and energy sector, in control processes and industrial automation, in the telecommunications sector, and in the massive electrical transportation sector, among others. He works at the public and private sector as an engineering consultant and advisor, at financing entities of infrastructure projects, at entities of industrial regulation and at centers that carry out technological research.