Advising

Your success is our department’s number one priority, which is why we want to give you all the resources you may need to do your best work. 

General Education Advising 

For general education advising, explore the Engineering Student Success Center to see all of the advising services available for Lower-Division Undergraduate students.

Major Advisor

Professor David Parent, Email address: david.parent@sjsu.edu
Upper-Division students need to contact Prof. Parent for department approvals of all forms, petitions, etc. as well as other academic issues.

Undergraduate Advisor

Professor Robert Morelos-Zaragoza, Email address: robert.morelos-zaragoza@sjsu.edu

Starting Fall 2023, Upper-Division students need to contact Prof. Morelos-Zaragoza for removal of major advising holds as well as advising in scheduling and choosing technical electives.  Before Fall 2023, all students need to contact ESSC advisors.

Major Advising Hold

Each semester, a Major Advising Hold is placed on student accounts to prevent them from registering for classes.  For Lower-Division students, see any advisor at the Engineering Student Success Center to remove this hold. Starting Fall 2023, Upper-Division students need to contact Prof. Morelos-Zaragoza, Email Address: robert.morelos-zaragoza@sjsu.edu for removal of major advising holds. Before Fall 2023, all students need to contact ESSC advisors.

Technical Elective Requirements

Students are required to take 12 units of upper-division EE technical electives. Students can take one three-unit upper-division course from other departments OR one three-unit EE graduate-level course as an elective with pre-approval from the Major Advisor (Prof. Parent: david.parent@sjsu.edu)

ENGR 100W

Students must complete ENGR 100W with a grade of “C” or better before enrolling in EE 198A. Note that ENGR 100W may not be waived based on Written Skills Test (WST) scores.

Senior Project Advisors

Area Advisors

Communications, Signal Processing, and Remote Sensing 

Network, Network Security, Mobile Network, and loT

Microprocessors, Computer, Embedded Systems, and Digital Systems

Device Physics, Micro Electronics, and Nano Electronics

Analog Electronics and Integrated Circuits

Power Electronics and Energy Systems

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Control, Robotic, and Autonomous Systems

Quantum Information and Quantum Computing