老自治领大学是美国第一所也是唯一一所提供建模和仿真工程学士学位的大学。ODU是这一新兴学科中为数不多的美国研究生课程之一，并且是美国第一所提供该领域博士学位的大学。在位于弗吉尼亚州诺福克市的ODU主校区，建模和仿真工程专业的学生可以使用具有数个教学和研究实验室，虚拟现实剧院和四壁CAVE（洞穴自动虚拟环境）的先进设施。此外，该部门的学术计划与强大的研究计划相结合，该计划与位于萨福克附近的ODU的弗吉尼亚州建模，分析和模拟中心（VMASC）共同进行。ODU的研究人员致力于医学和医疗保健建模与仿真，高性能计算
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers a four-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering with a Major in Modeling and Simulation Engineering. The Modeling and Simulation Engineering Major will prepare students as modeling and simulation engineers of engineering systems with analog and digital hardware components and software aspects at its technical core with the advantage to extend the knowledge to other applications in engineering and the sciences. Students will gain skills necessary to create a concept or a design and testing it in real-world conditions through graphical and mathematical models, virtual reality simulations, software development, and data analysis.Old Dominion University is the first and only university in the nation to offer an undergraduate major in modeling and simulation engineering. The ECE department has research laboratories focusing on Cybersecurity, Communications and Networking Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Medical Modeling and Simulation, Medical Imaging, Diagnosis, and Analysis, and Collaborative Autonomous Systems.