Department - summary
The Department of Electrical Engineering offers four specialisation streams. You can learn about robotics, electrical machines, integrated circuits, microprocessor programming, data processing, satellite communication and much more.

The department's staff combines commercial and research experience with a high level of academic expertise. The department has a large number of laboratories with a wide range of equipment and instruments. There are a large number of PCs and workstations available, which are used as an integrated part of many courses.

Though, the study of electrical engineering does not need to be 100% academic. There is a student radio club and an electronics group; the department has an "Electro-forum" in which guest speakers from industry and commerce give informal presentations of relevant aspects of their organisation's activities, products etc.; and last -but not least- via the department's local data net and Internet students and staff are able to obtain information and programmes from databases all over the world and communicate worldwide with other students and engineers via E-mail, newsgroups etc.

Student intake
The department admits approximately 120 student per year to the three-year engineering programmes, and 30 students to the two-year engineering programmes. (see below). Successful completion of the three-year course makes possible entry into the fourth year of the 5 year engineering degree course at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

Student evaluation
In most subjects students are evaluated by means of a written examination, usually 3-5 hours duration. Examination results, possibly combined with laboratory performance and project evaluation, are given in terms of a scale from A to F, grade A being the best and A-E are pass grades.
In a few subjects a pass/fail evaluation is used. Project and laboratory work is evaluated and combined with the relevant subject's examination result to give a final grading. The final year project is evaluated, after a peer presentation, by a staff comittee.

Students leaving with a full set of pass results are presented with a Bachelor diploma and a certificate listing all grades obtained during the course. They can also use the Norwegian title "Høgskoleingeniør".

Teaching language
The teaching language in most courses is Norwegian. Courses in Norwegian for foreigners are given at Sør-Trøndelag University College or at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Foreign students doing practical semester or thesis can manage quite well with English or German as working language.