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Faculty of Engineering
UNB Fredericton

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Undergraduate programs

We put the zing in everything

We power up modern life and can make it fun. We can fly you to the moon and provide safe, secure communications to call home. Need an app for gaming that entertains? ECE graduates have you covered. From the serious needs in healthcare to information for disasters, and ways to communicate with friends, ECE graduates can do it all. 

With a degree from ECE you could:

  • improve people's lives through biomedical innovation and wearable technologies
  • develop controls and instrumentation for robotics
  • power up with renewable energy systems
  • enhance communications with wireless and networking
  • make digital data sing through signal processing in smartwatches, cell phones, hearing aids, and self-driving cars
  • create the circuit boards that direct spacecraft

Electrify your future with captivating possibilities that go far beyond your imagination.

Course curriculum

Degree options

Discover three departmental degrees.

We have a diploma option and work opportunities to enhance your skills.


Look ahead to an exhilarating future after graduating UNB Engineering. You could:

  • create new software to guard against cyberattacks
  • craft an app that teaches about biodiversity in the landscape
  • develop and design systems for advanced manufacturing
  • implement communication systems
  • improve systems that produce, transmit, and use electric power
  • design electric cars
  • employ process control to ensure the safe operation of manufacturing processes
  • develop and implement sustainable energy solutions
  • design and build optical systems
  • participate in the space race by designing and building spacecraft, missiles, and satellites

From microchips to potato chips, you can work in a wide variety of industries including electronics, automotive, IT, gaming, telecoms, manufacturing, power generation, power distribution, energy storage, transport, utilities and construction.

All of modern life requires electrical engineering knowledge. You choose your path and career. The only limit is your imagination.