Electrical & Computer Engineering

Technology developed by electrical and computer engineers has revolutionized every facet of modern life. These developments have applications in multidisciplinary settings — medicine, communications, entertainment, business, transportation, and education— and represent enormous promise for society.

Computer engineers specialize in the design and analysis of computer hardware and software systems, including computer processors, circuit boards, and network systems. As a student, you will gain the skills to design, analyze, and build technology to improve and modernize daily life.

Cybersecurity engineers are in demand in organizations throughout society. Non-profits, hospitals, companies, government agencies and intergovernmental organizations are all seeking knowledgeable professionals to keep their organization’s operations and data safe from attackers.

You will learn to help shape the design and manufacturing processes of microlectronics, control systems, signal processing systems, and other technologies that impact our daily lives. 

Electrical engineering technology curriculum has electronic technology, and computer technology tracks. As a student in this field, you're introduced to computer hardware and software, automatic control programming and implementation, robotic control, and modern instrumentation and sensors. This program will prepare you to design, program, and install all types of electrical instrumentation as well as computers and their networks.

There are many professional career paths in the fields of electrical engineering and computer science.

• Computer Engineers specialize in the design and analysis of computer hardware and software. Working with operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks, robotics, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and computer-aided design tools, they develop advancements in radio, television, radar, transistors, computers, and robotics.
• Cybersecurity Engineers focus on defending security in all facets including careers as a threat intelligence analyst, penetration tester, incident response manager, application security engineer, and more.
• Electrical Engineers develop electrical equipment, shaping the design and manufacturing processes for all kinds of devices, from microelectronics to supercomputers. Their work—in control systems, signal processing, space systems, lasers and photonics, and more—is at the forefront of advances in biomedicine, renewable energy, intelligent systems, and nanotechnologies.

• 10/2023: White House recognized Ohio Cyber Range Institute’s efforts in cybersecurity workforce development. ECE faculty Dr. Marc Cahay serves as a co-director of Ohio Cyber Range Institute. 
• 09/2023: Ohio Cyber Range Institute at UC received $5.3 million from Ohio Department of Higher Educator to enhance cybersecurity education and workforce development. ECE Faculty Dr. Marc Cahay serves as the Co-PI of this grant. 
• 09/2023: ECE faculty Drs. Marc Cahay, Marty Emmert, and Zach Fuchs received $308K from Ohio RAPID program to enhance workforce development in smart manufacturing and semiconductor cybersecurity industries. 
• 09/2023: ECE faculty Dr. Mehdi Norouzi received $300K to conduct research in acoustic wave detection for soil compaction evaluation. 
• 09/2023: ECE faculty Dr. Steve Ettorre received EECE Professor Educator Award from JCI. 
• 09/2023: Paper led by ECE students Sid Barve (graduate), Nick Haehn (undergrad), and Connor Socolik (undergrad) was accepted by the 69th IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). IEDM is one of the most prestigious conferences in semiconductor devices. These students are advised by ECE faculty Dr. Rashmi Jha.
• 09/2023: UC news highlighted ECE Faculty Dr. Andrew Steckl’s research with Procter & Gamble.
• 08/2023: ECE department hosts Cybersecurity and Blockchain Summer Camp for 30 high school students. 
• 08/2023: ECE faculty Dr. Andrew Steckl received $100K from Procter & Gamble to conduct research in bacterial sensors. 
• 08/2023: ECE faculty Dr. Andrew Steckl received $300K from Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to conduct research in stem cell-derived islet transplantation.  
• 08/2023: ECE undergrad student Sushant Padhye won Herman Schneider Best Paper Award of Protégé 2023 Program. 
• 08/2023: ECE Ph.D. student Tianshuo Wang was chosen as one of the 15 finalists for the Student Paper Competition at the 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The 15 finalists were selected from over 1,600 paper submissions. Wang is advised by ECE Faculty Dr. Tao Li. 
• 08/2023: ECE faculty Drs. Zach Fuchs and Boyang Wang received tenure and were promoted to Associate Professors.  
• 07/2023: 12 undergrad researchers participated RHEST, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Site in Hardware and Embedded Systems Security and Trust this summer. RHEST is hosted by ECE department.   
• 07/2023: ECE faculty Dr. Tao Li received $447K from National Institutes of Health to conduct research in brain circuits modeling using 3D microfluidic devices and $351K from Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to conduct research in monitoring harsh working environments using wearable devices.  
• 07/2023: ECE faculty Dr. Marc Cahay received $360K from the Department of Labor to enhance workforce development in cybersecurity.