信息时代的核心是信息系统：获取，处理，存储和传达信息的系统。信息系统研究涉及广泛的科学和工程学科，包括ECE，计算机科学和数学。在ECEUNM，研究的重点是当前和新兴信息系统的一些最重要方面，例如信息安全，信息体系结构，使用控制，大数据，网络物理系统，机器学习，认知无线电，智能电网和理论。信息。
Internationally recognized for its excellence in research and education, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department has 32 tenuredtenure-track faculty members and over 500 students. The ECE UNM 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.<br><br>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.