现在计算机网络无处不在。该重点旨在使学生为计算机网络和分布式系统领域的动态职业做好准备。一组核心课程侧重于高级主题，使学生可以建立互联网和分布式系统，高性能网络和计算，多媒体和无线网络，通信协议，对等系统，分布式存储的基本核心领域的专业知识。事务，资源管理，系统安全性，性能评估和调整以及各种分布式应用程序。
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.