Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE Professor Rohit Negi has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop monitoring tools for predicting non-robust behavior, such as annoying rolling blackouts, so endemic to the nation's fragile power grid.

The award was funded by the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The economic stimulus bill passed in February 2009 allocated $11 billion to upgrade the nation's outdated power infrastructure.

Negi will lead a team of university electricity and computing experts to analyze the robustness of cyber-physical systems, such as electric, water, sewer and gas networks. (Read more...)

Two ECE adjunct faculty members, current and former Ph.D. students and researchers, have two papers in the upcoming January/February issue of IEEE Micro Top Picks.

The papers, whose co-authors include adjunct ECE/CS faculty members Babak Falsafi and Anastasia Ailamaki, former Ph.D. student Tom Wenisch, and current Ph.D. student Michael Ferdman, represent some of the year's most significant research publications in computer architecture based on novelty and long term impact.

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Ph.D. students Vikram Gupta and Anthony Rowe, together with their advisor, ECE Professor Raj Rajkumar, have won the Best Paper Award at the ACM Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys) 2009 Conference earlier this month.

The paper, titled "Low-power clock synchronization using electromagnetic energy radiating from AC power lines," introduces an innovative low-power hardware module for achieving global clock synchronization across geographically distributed nodes. Such synchronization is useful in many decentralized systems including wireless sensor networks since it enables event ordering, coordinated actuation, energy-efficient communications, and coordinated duty-cycling.

To fully realize a vision of the connected mobile future, we need to better understand how people can work, play and collaborate in the mobile ecosystem and how to meet those needs through new designs, implementations and deployment mechanisms. Through Carnegie Mellon's broad and deep expertise in related research activities, the CyLab Mobility Research Center is uniquely positioned to partner with organizations around the world to advance the state of the art in Mobility Systems.

Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering, a department of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

We offer several levels of study, all nationally recognized for their excellence in the field of electrical and computer engineering.

• Bachelor of Science
• Integrated M.S. / B.S.
• Master of Science
• Ph.D.
• ECE/Portugal Ph.D.

Applications for the ECE M.S. and Ph.D. programs are now being accepted for the Fall 2010 enrollment period.