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Income Taxes - Other Narrative (Details) (USD $)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Income Taxes [Line Items]      
Tax benefit from the exercises of non-qualified stock options and vesting of restricted stock under our stock-based incentive plans   $ 900,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitRealizedFromExerciseOfStockOptions $ 100,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitRealizedFromExerciseOfStockOptions
Provision for undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiaries 0ueic_IncomeTaxExpenseBenefitProvisionforUndistributedForeignEarnings    
State Administration of Taxation, China [Member]      
Income Taxes [Line Items]      
Period of recognition for deductible expenses or deferred tax assets 5 years    
Increase in income tax expense due to write-off of deferred tax assets for social insurance and housing funds $ 700,000ueic_IncreaseInIncomeTaxExpenseduetoWriteOffDeferredTaxAssetsforSocialInsuranceandHousingFunds
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$ 200,000ueic_IncreaseInIncomeTaxExpenseduetoWriteOffDeferredTaxAssetsforSocialInsuranceandHousingFunds
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$ 600,000ueic_IncreaseInIncomeTaxExpenseduetoWriteOffDeferredTaxAssetsforSocialInsuranceandHousingFunds
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