Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE graduate student Chen-Ling (Jenny) Chou won a Best Poster Award in the PhD Student Forum at the 15^th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) held Jan. 18–21 in Taiwan. (Read More.)

A robotic head that can track your face and move in time when you clap, or a sweatshirt for bicyclists with buttons on the sleeves that activate LED "turn signals" on the back of the shirt. Sounds like products that might be coming to a store near you, right? Well they might. Someday. But for now they're ECE student projects under way as part of the department's student-led Build18 initiative.

Launched as a pilot project at the end of the 2009 spring semester, Build18 is a week of "tinkering and gadgeting" that encourages groups of students to innovate and create solutions to problems of their own choosing, free from the threat of tests, formal exams and project reviews. With the help of corporate sponsors and additional resources of lab space, equipment and conference rooms supplied by the ECE Department, students at all levels can find a few friends and finally tackle the project that lack of time or resources once prevented.

February was a busy month for Marija Ilic, professor of ECE and Engineering and Public Policy, who not only earned a spot on Greentech Media's "Networked Grid 100: Movers and Shakers of the Smart Grid" list, but also received an Alumni Achievement Award from her alma mater, the School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. (Read More)

Carnegie Mellon University and Taiwanese officials have established research and educational outreach programs with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Research at the government-sponsored ITRI Lab@CMU focuses on circuit design and applications in communication, information technology, computer and consumer electronics, and multimedia.

• Center overview

Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering, a department of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

We offer several levels of study, all nationally recognized for their excellence in the field of electrical and computer engineering.

• Bachelor of Science
• Integrated M.S. / B.S.
• Master of Science
• Ph.D.
• ECE/Portugal Ph.D.