The Three Pillars of Teaching Excellence

ECE Associate Professor Brandon Grainger receives Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from the Institute of Electrical and and Electronics Engineers

Pitt Engineering’s Jingtong Hu Receives 2024 DAC Under-40 Innovators Award

A TED Talk in Thermo Detection

Pitt and CMU researchers propose a new device that can actively cool down circuits and improve computer performance in the journal Nature Communications

ECE Powers Up with New Appointments

ECE seeks to expand its work in electric power engineering research and education with growth in the department

The Quest for Clarity in Engineering Judgment

Pitt Engineering’s Renee Clark and Samuel Dickerson receive $349,551 NSF award to develop a consensus-driven definition for engineering judgment and accompanying assessment and instructional tools

Early CAREER Celebration

Five Pitt Engineering Faculty Receive Highly Competitive NSF Awards for Early Career Research

Keeping an ‘Eye’ On Better AI

In a new paper for Optica, Pitt researchers find that 2D “unit cells” may be hold the potential for optical computing in the age of artificial intelligence

SPIRALing Into the Future

A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Zhejiang University developed a new framework called SPIRAL to improve high computing performance

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Since its founding in 1893 by two legends, George Westinghouse and Reginald Fessenden, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Pitt has excelled in education, research, and service. Today, the department features innovative undergraduate and graduate programs and world-class research centers and labs, combining theory with practice at the nexus of computer and electrical engineering, for our students to learn, develop, and lead lives of impact.