Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

It's a Fact

Through the Numbers

Here’s a quick look at the ECpE department through the numbers.

  • Established: 1909
  • Alumni: More than 11,000
  • Faculty: 48 full-time faculty
  • Endowed chairs and professorships: 9
  • Ranking: Top 24 ECpE graduate programs among public programs (U.S.News & World Report, 2007)
  • Job placement: 98 percent of Iowa State engineering BS graduates have jobs within six months of graduation
  • Total BS enrollment: 813
  • Total MS enrollment: 104
  • Total PhD enrollment: 180
  • PhDs awarded: 39 (from 2006-08)
  • Research expenditures: $18 million (2005-07)
  • Research centers and institutes: 13
  • NSF CAREER/PYI award winners on faculty: 9
  • IEEE Fellows on faculty: 8

New Facilities & Equipment

  • $38.8 million building renovation and addition
  • IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer
  • CyberInnovation Institute
  • Ugraded C6 virtual reality room is world's most realistic with 16.7 million pixels per side
  • Nation's first Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment

Biennial Research Reports

Every two years the ECpE department publishes a biennial research report called Research Highlights. Click the links below to download PDF files of recent reports.