电气工程师使用为世界供电的系统，并设计用于处理大量数据的设备。他们将数学，物理学和其他科学与计算机，电子仪器和其他工具结合使用，创建了一系列系统，包括集成电路，电信网络，无线通信系统，诊断医疗设备，“绿色”能源等。由于计算机工程技术的变化非常迅速，因此新墨西哥大学的电气工程本科课程强调基本概念以及当前的应用方法。学生有机会研究机器人，纳米技术，光电子学，脉冲功率，聚变科学等。UNM的电气工程专业的学生可以与建筑专业的学生一起设计太阳能供电的房屋，与其他学生合作开发成群的网络机器人，或者与国际知名的教授合作
Internationally recognized for its excellence in research and education, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department has 32 tenured/tenure-track faculty members and over 500 students. The ECEUNM faculty pursues active research in a wide range of key strategic areas, including applied electromagnetics, photonics, and nanotechnology, communications and signal processing, biomedical -technologies, renewable energy, control systems, information systems and networking systems. Many of our faculty are well-recognized in their fields, and the department is currently home to eight IEEE fellows. Graduate students at ECE have access to state-of-the-art research facilities located in numerous research laboratories and large interdisciplinary centers. The ECE Department is dedicated to improving life through discovery, education and innovation. We embrace an open culture and offer our students unique forward-looking curricula, low student-to-faculty ratios and highly talented and dedicated professors, instructors and mentors. Our graduate courses cover a full breadth of areas, including core foundational topics as well as focused special offerings in the latest technologies.