Pitt’s Swanson School of Engineering selected to receive $3.3 million to develop new electricity transmission technology

Funding is part of $11 million in funding from Department of Energy for High Voltage Direct Current Transmission Projects

A Personalized Approach to Engineering Education

Associate Professors Renee Clark and Ahmed Dallal received more than $200K from the NSF to advance research in personalized STEM education

New Program Provides Career Opportunity Pathways into Space Industry for Students

A Multi-Level Breakthrough in Optical Computing

Engineers at Pitt, UC Santa Barbara, University of Cagliari, and Institute of Science Tokyo Demonstrate Faster, More Efficient, and Robust Memory Cell

Ryan Brody, ECE Graduate, Uses His PhD for Dream Career in Sustainable Satellite Launching Systems

A New VANTAGE: SHREC Selected for Next Space Mission

Announcing the NSF Workshop on Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Medical Applications

A Breath of Fresh Air for Pulmonary Telemedicine

Pitt engineers receive R01 grant to deliver pulmonary diagnostic tools to your smartphone

The Non-Linear Path to Engineering Success

How a mentor-mentee relationship helped Maurice Sturdivant explore his engineering potential

Pitt ECE PhD Student Sabrina Helbig Attends Leadership Conference in Greece

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.