Welcome to EECS

Welcome to the website for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It's been a busy year for the EECS with the recent ABET accreditation visit and moving into the new Min H. Kao Building.

The move into the new building has been more than four years in the making. The faculty, staff and, most importantly, the students are all extremely excited to be in the new space. Plans for the ribbon cutting ceremony on March 13-14 are well under way. We will have a number of stimulating activities during the grand opening celebration and hope to see everyone there.

The department continues to experience substantial growth. While we have partly followed the national trend of recovering enrollments, we are well ahead of the national pace. Undergraduate enrollment is approaching 500 students — an increase of roughly 30 percent from 2007. Research expenditures have also grown more than 45 percent during that time. This has allowed the graduate program to grow as well with Ph.D. enrollment now at 160 students — an all-time high for the department.

The faculty of EECS continued to successfully compete for the most prestigious awards. This past fall semester we were awarded an NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center (ERC). The center with initial funding of $18.5 million for five years will focus on wide area power system controls. This is the first such ERC in electric power transmission and places EECS squarely as a leader of Smart Grid research.

We hope you are excited as we are about new developments in our program and will seriously consider the educational and research opportunities the department offers. For more information about the department, please look at our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Kevin Tomsovic
CTI Professor and Department Head