Electrical and Computer Engineering

     The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has a long tradition of excellence in teaching and research, starting with the inception of the Electrical Engineering program at "Brooklyn Poly" in 1885. The department rose to prominence in the mid-twentieth century for work in microwaves, communications, electrical machinery, and automatic control. Current research and degree programs focus on:

• telecommunications (including wireless and high-speed networks)
• digital signal processing (including still and video image processing)
• control and robotics
• electric power systems and power electronics
• electromagnetics and microwaves
• electrophysics of materials (especially plasmas)
• computer engineering (secure hardware design, nanoelectronic devices, circuits, architectures and CAD)

     Faculty and students are engaged in research sponsored at an annual rate of about $2.5 million by government agencies and industrial organizations. Most of those projects are coordinated in centers such as the Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (CATT), which is sponsored by New York State, The NSF-sponsored Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT), and the Weber Research Institute (formerly the Microwave Research Institute).

     While the eminence of our department is partly due to the research and textbooks produced by our faculty, our strong reputation is largely a result of the success of our graduates in their careers after college. Therefore, the department is dedicated to serving the needs of its students, and preparing them for the evolving trends in their future fields of employment.


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