Graduate

The department offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering with a concentration in electrical engineering (EE) or computer engineering (CpE).

Electrical engineering research areas include:

• Analog, radio-frequency and millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems
• Antenna and propagation
• Bioelectronics, biotechnologies, flexible and wearable devices
• Control systems and robotics
• Communications and signal processing
• Information theory
• Machine learning
• Optical devices and circuits, microscopy, nano optics
• Power electronics 
• Semiconductor devices

Computer engineering thrusts encompass:

• Computer architecture
• Computer networks
• Cyberphysical systems
• Digital and VLSI
• Distributed system
• Embedded systems
• High-level synthesis
• Security

Program learning outcomes (PLOs) for Electrical Engineering and Computer Enginering may be found here. The department also offers graduate degrees in networked systems, a program administered by an interdisciplinary group of faculty from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science.  

We also offer a separate professional Master of Engineering program with an electrical engineering and computer science concentration. You can learn more about the program specializations, admission requirements, and deadlines at meng.eng.uci.edu. To compare the different master’s degree options, please check out this chart.