Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mission

The mission of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) is to:

• Provide an outstanding educational program that enables our graduates to become leaders in their profession by imparting fundamental principles, skills, and tools to innovate and excel.

• Pursue the discovery of fundamental knowledge and its applications to position the department among the leaders in research.

• Respond to the needs of the State of Iowa and the nation by building a strong outreach program that serves industry and the engineering profession.

Vision

• Students will become broadly educated in the fundamentals of electrical and computer engineering principles with an emphasis on skills that enable them to adapt to the regular paradign shifts in the technological and engineering landscapes. We will aim to produce leaders who will shape the future technological arena.

• The faculty will focus on research that is creative, innovative, and meaningful. The faculty will virorously pursue and lead new emerging areas that have the potential to revolutionize the electrical and computer engineering and other related scientific and technological disciplines. The faculty will create, share, and apply the knowledge for the land-grant mission of the university.

Priorities

Education:

• Impart the ability to learn
• Encourage leadership
• Maintain high standards and an excellent international reputation
• Attract top students from reputed national and international schools
• Form strategic alliances with industry and research labs to enhance opportunities for research collaboration and student exposure.

Research:

• Sustain faculty composition to have strength in core disciplines with adaptability

• Create centers of excellence
  • BioEngineering
  • Distributed Sensing and Decision Making
  • Small-Scale Technologies
  • Cyber Infrastructure
  • Energy Infrastructure

• Create strategic partnetships with reputed research labs, universities and industry
• Build strong support infrastructures
• Encourage the process of technology transfer

Read our strategic plan (pdf) to become one of the top 10 departments in the country.