Department of 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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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.

Learn about our faculty, alumni, and more in these Two Minutes With ... videos.

• Making the World's First Cell Phone: Two Minutes With ... Alumnus Donald Linder
• Improving Organic Solar Technology: Two Minutes With ... Assistant Professor Sumit Chaudhary
• Using Ultrasound to Treat Cancer: Two Minute With ... Assistant Professor Timothy Bigelow
  

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

• Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment Named One of Top 10 "Coolest" Labs in the Nation
  
• Iowa State's "Virtual Internet" Protects the Real One
  

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"

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"
  

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"