ECE Facts

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department offers accredited undergraduate programs in computer systems engineering (CSE) and electrical engineering (EE), and has funded graduate research programs in Sensing systems, Wireless communication, Complex systems modeling, Computer networks, Computer and embedded systems, VLSI and CAD and Post-CMOS nano.

Its microwave engineering program is nationally recognized with an NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA), Center for Advanced Sensor and Communication Antennas (CASCA), and Microwave Remote Sensing Lab (MIRSL).

The two fully ABET-accredited B.S. degrees in Computer Systems Engineering and Electrical Engineering has an honors option for qualified students.

(Academic Year 2010-2011)

Faculty

33 Faculty members
11 IEEE Fellows
6 NSF CAREER Awardees
2 University Distinguished Teachers

Students

70 PhD
130 MS
320 BS

Performance (average 2007-2009)

$10M research expenditures
12 PhD degrees
44 MS degrees
55 BS degrees

Research Areas

Sensing Systems
- Antennas and propagation
- Biomedical electronics
- E&M theory and computation
- Hi-freq circuits and devices
- Microwave engineering
- Radar networks
- Remote sensing
- Thz electronics
- Weather radar
Post-CMOS Nano
- Physics of nanodevices and nanocomputing
- Computational nanoelectronics
- Nanofabrication
- Nanodevices and integrated systems
- Nanofabrics, circuits and computing architectures
VLSI/CAD, Computer and Embedded Systems
- Computer-aided design and test
- Computer architecture
- Embedded systems and security
- Fault-tolerant computing
- Real-time computing
- VLSI design
Wireless Communications, Complex Systems Modeling, Computer Networks
- Communication and signal processing
- Computer and communication networks
- Systems and control theory
- Wireless systems

Highlights

Microwave Engineering: one of the nation’s leaders in research and education.
CASA Engineering Research Center (NSF) for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere: a multi-sector partnership among academia, industry, and government dedicated to engineering revolutionary weather-sensing networks.
M5: a 5,000 sq. ft. academic makerspace whose mission is to enable ECE undergraduate students to advance their interests through experimentation, exploration, interaction, community service and entrepreneurship.