Welcome to ECE
Welcome to the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Our vision is to
enable technical professionals to distinguish themselves in a globally
competitive marketplace. We pursue this goal for our undergraduates,
graduates, and faculty and for the professionals in our community.
Details of the department mission and objectives are found
here.
In order to realize our vision we offer exceptional undergraduate programs in both Electrical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. The undergraduate program has a heavy emphasis on laboratory work with opportunities for special study in both theoretical and large project based activities. Currently we have 325 undergraduates. Our undergraduate programs are ABET accredited and viewed by a number of employers as the best in the greater multi-state Rocky Mountain Region. Please see our undergraduate student page for details.
In our graduate programs we have internationally known researchers in both traditional and emerging areas. Our faculty include 14 IEEE, 3 OSA and SPIE fellows, as well as 2 members of the US National Academy of Engineering. Our research support is approximately $5.4M per year from a variety of public and private sources. Our graduate student class of 250 students is approximately 50% from the US and 50% international. Our research is grouped into ten major areas with three research centers. Please see our graduate student and research pages for details.
We have certificate programs in embedded systems, power electronics, and software engineering that serve both our students and professionals in the region. In addition, we have minors in electrical engineering, computer engineering and signals and systems open to students from other disciplines.
Our department was founded in the 1890s, in the earliest days of the College of Engineering. Today its faculty includes 39 tenured and tenure-track professors, 10 professors with secondary appointments in this department, 3 research professors, and over 20 adjunct professors, instructors and lecturers.
Information on our program is available throughout this site. If you have questions or simply want to talk to a departmental representative directly, please see our contact page. We hope that we can serve you in your pursuit of an exciting, globally based career where you will be one of the people designing and building the world of tomorrow.
Michael Lightner, Chair
