Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECpE Videos

View our archive of electrical and computer engineering videos:

Why Study Electrical and Computer Engineering?

See students talk about their specialty areas within electrical and computer engineering and how you can make a difference as an electrical or computer engineer.

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The First Year Rock Band Experience

Computer engineering students in their first year at Iowa State University get to do hands-on projects. This year, the students did a Rock Band experience where they learned about the Rock Band game and how it works. Learn more about the first-year Rock Band experience.



Research Videos

The College of Engineering has profiled many of our electrical and computer engineering professors and their research. Video videos for the following:


Distinguished Lecture Series

View full-length videos of distinguished lecturers who have visited the ECpE department at Iowa State.

  • 2007-08 Videos: John Stankovic, "Self-organizing Wireless Sensor Networks in Action" and Jose Moura, "Distributed Inference in Social Networks: Topology and Tradeoffs"
  • 2008-09 Videos: David Notkin, "Software Engineering Research and the Influence of Group Think"


Centennial Distinguished Alumni Seminar Series

Distinguished alumni returned to campus to give lectures on a variety of topics during the department's centennial year. View videos of the seminars:

  • Art Pohm (MS Physics '53; PhD Physics '54), "The Saga of Electronic Memories"
  • Donald Linder (BSEE '65), "The History of the Cell Phone"


Centennial Celebration Seminars

Three distinguished individuals from industry and national research laboratories came to campus to speak in April 2009. Watch their lectures:

  • George O. Strawn, Chief Information Officer, National Science Foundation: "In Pursuit of New Methods for Scientific Communication"
  • Theodore Bohn, Senior Power Electronics Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory: "Myths and Misunderstandings About Drivetrain Electrifications Solving All Our Energy Problems"
  • Daniel A. Reed, Director of Scalable/Multicore Systems, Microsoft Research: "Inventing the Future"