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 The economic stimulus bill passed in February 2009 allocated $11 billion to upgrade the nation's outdated power infrastructure.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...)

Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu, ABB Professor of ECE and director of the Data Storage Systems Center, is developing a technology seen as a dark horse in the race toward tomorrow's ultra-dense hard disk drives, according to an October 19 article in EE Times. Zhu is developing a prototype of his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technique he believes will pack three terabits of data in a square inch of a spinning disk.

The technique represents a third option in an ongoing debate over the next big shift in hard disk technology expected to emerge in the next year or two. (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.

The Center for Bioimage Informatics (CBI) brings together faculty from engineering, biology and computer science to identify important biological and medical problems in which images are the primary data source; frame a solution to the problem using engineering and computer science principles; collect or obtain relevant images; identify criteria for evaluating success; implement the solution; evaluate and disseminate the results.

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.