MESSAGE FROM ECE CHAIR LARRY LARSON
July 2007

The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department is a young, large and growing interdisciplinary engineering department with its focus on research and education for the information technology infrastructure. Among the 55 regular faculty members, 9 have been awarded the Presidential Young Investigator award or its equivalent; 27 are Fellows of professional societies and two are members of the National Academy of Engineering.

The Electrical Engineering (EE) undergraduate curriculum is ABET accredited. The program is flexible, allowing students to graduate in four years. The Computer Engineering (CE) program is jointly administered with the Computer Science and Engineering Department. At present there are about 450 EE and 60 CE majors in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Our research and education programs cover a wide variety of sub-disciplines: Applied Ocean Sciences, Applied Optics and Photonics, Communication Theory and Systems, Computer Engineering, Electronic Circuits and Systems, Electronic Devices and Materials, Intelligent Systems and Control, Magnetic Recording, Radio and Space Science, and Signal and Image Processing.

We currently have about 400 graduate students, 300 of whom are Ph.D. students, reflecting strong and vibrant research programs. A large portion of research and students are in the Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Research expenditures in the department last year were nearly $18 million, and new awards totaled $25.4 million. For the past three years the EE and CE graduate programs ranked sixteenth nationwide in the US News and World Report surveys.

We welcome additional inquires about our undergraduate and graduate program, which can be found in our website, and we would be happy to assist you with any information that you may require. Questions should be addressed to an ECE faculty member in your area of interest or in care of the Chairman of ECE.


Sincerely yours,

Larry Larson
Professor and Chair