The Electrical Engineering (EE) emphasis track focuses on applied circuit design and theory. Students take courses in electrical signals and systems, circuit design, and communication systems. Electrical engineering encompasses the areas of computer applications and design, electrical power transmission and distribution, telecommunications, and electronics. The electrical engineer designs and oversees the construction, installation and maintenance of electrical systems providing light, heat and power. Engineers design the communications of telephone, radio and television as well as the transistor and integrated circuits used in these systems. People trained in computer engineering automate businesses, factories, pipelines and refineries; and design control systems and computers which guide trains, planes, and space vehicles. Even the test devices and tools of investigation - in medicine, in physics, in geology and in other sciences - are today largely electronic. The School of Engineering offers a program of studies that allow the completion of the first two years of a 4-year program leading to the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. The program is coordinated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) College of Science, Engineering and Mathematics. It allows students to transfer into the Electrical Engineering program at UAF as 3rd year students with no loss of credit. Because electrical engineering is based on mathematics, chemistry, and physics, students are introduced to the basic principles in these areas during their first two years of study. They are also exposed to a variety of introductory courses in engineering science and to courses in communication, the humanities, social sciences and/or fine arts.