Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE Professor Rohit Negi has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop monitoring tools for predicting non-robust behavior, such as annoying rolling blackouts, so endemic to the nation's fragile power grid.

The award was funded by the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The economic stimulus bill passed in February 2009 allocated $11 billion to upgrade the nation's outdated power infrastructure.

Negi will lead a team of university electricity and computing experts to analyze the robustness of cyber-physical systems, such as electric, water, sewer and gas networks. (Read more...)

Graduate student Tudor Dumitras has won the prestigious John Vlissides Award at the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA).

This award is given to the doctoral student showing significant promise in applied software research and the most potential for having a significant impact on the practice of software development.

Two ECE adjunct faculty members, current and former Ph.D. students and researchers, have two papers in the upcoming January/February issue of IEEE Micro Top Picks.

The papers, whose co-authors include adjunct ECE/CS faculty members Babak Falsafi and Anastasia Ailamaki, former Ph.D. student Tom Wenisch, and current Ph.D. student Michael Ferdman, represent some of the year's most significant research publications in computer architecture based on novelty and long term impact.

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The DARPA Center for Memory Intensive Self-Configuring Integrated Circuits (MISCIC) at Carnegie Mellon University addresses the most pressing challenges facing integrated systems — their cost, reliability, power consumption, and adaptability. Our experts will explore and refine integrated circuit reconfigurability (without sacrificing performance), low power operation, fault and damage tolerance, scalability, and manufacturing cost reduction at low volumes.

• 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.

Applications for the ECE M.S. and Ph.D. programs are now being accepted for the Fall 2010 enrollment period.