电气和计算机工程领域正处于非凡的发展时期，由于新技术和成本的降低，新的应用领域和期望值也在不断提高。工程与应用科学学院的电气与计算机工程系从事这些领域中许多领域的研究生教学和研究，包括通信和信号处理，网络，计算机工程，半导体器件和量子电子学，电路和VLSI。该部门的实验室致力于以下领域的研究和高级教学：计算，工程设计方法论，高性能计算和网络，并行和神经处理，机器视觉，光纤传感器和计算机图形学，微电子和光电/ VLSI，远程机器人技术，DNA测序，数字信号处理和通信。
The fields of electrical and computer engineering are in an extraordinary period of growth, new application areas and increased expectations are accelerating due to new technologies and decreased costs. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is involved in graduate teaching and research in many of these areas, including communications and signal processing, networking, computer engineering, semiconductor devices and quantum electronics, circuits and VLSI. The department has laboratories devoted to research and advanced teaching in the following areas: computing, engineering design methodology, high-performance computing and networking, parallel and neural processing, machine vision, fiber optic sensors and computer graphics, micro and optoelectronics/VLSI, telerobotics, DNA sequencing, digital signal processing, and communications.