The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Maryland, College Park offers one of the strongest and most highly-ranked programs in the nation. Led by 89 full-time and affiliate faculty members and 50 research faculty and postdocs, the research programs within the department cover a wide spectrum of activities in the areas of:
Communications and Networking
Signal Processing
Control, Robotics, and Dynamical Systems
Computer Engineering
Optics and Photonics
Circuits and Systems
Electronic Materials and Devices
Bioelectronics and Systems
Applied Electromagnetics
Our close affiliation with a number of research institutes such as the Institute for Systems Research (link is external) , the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (link is external) , the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (link is external) , the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (link is external) , and the Maryland NanoCenter (link is external) provides our students and researchers the opportunity for team-oriented, cross-disciplinary research and access to the institutes' state-of-the-art laboratories.
ECE is a large department that offers a broad range of programs and research opportunities. Its research innovations are aimed at helping government and industry face today' s most difficult global challenges. Employers and peer institutions recognize the prestige of Maryland' s engineering programs.
Maryland's proximity to Washington, D.C., offers unique research opportunities with national and government laboratories such as NASA' s Goddard Space Flight Center, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Army and Navy Research Labs. No other top Engineering program in the U.S. can provide such close proximity and access to national laboratories, the federal government, and the Department of Defense.
