Electrical and Computer Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University

New Course Bridges Industry Gap in Hardware Verification

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has developed a new Hardware Verification course that introduces students to the principles and practices used by verification engineers in ...
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Academic Guide

12 units of a Coverage requirement are required for the ECE curriculum. Students may use this requirement to further specialize in their main area, or they may use this to explore some of the other ...
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Breadth Areas

The following courses are listed by area and are available to fulfill the PhD Breadth Requirements.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Siyang Zheng is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to his appointment at CMU, he was an ...
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Thesis & Defense

Once the student has completed all the research that was agreed upon at the prospectus meeting, they must write a PhD thesis and orally defend it. Once their PhD thesis is written, the student must ...
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Hot, hot, hot!

As summer temperatures surge and an unprecedented heatwave hits parts of the U.S., we asked our College of Engineering experts about using smart phones, laptops, and other electronics in extremely hot ...
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tom Sullivan is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and holds a courtesy Lecturer appointment in the School of Music as part of the faculty for the ...
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Introducing Students to Open-Source Chip Design

Interest in designing computer chips has grown exponentially. With pressure to bring hardware manufacturing back to the United States, universities are developing innovative ways to expose students to ...
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Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Unprecedented Resolution

In 2019, sitting in his office running computer simulations, Chaitanya Goswami, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s electrical and computer engineering department, noticed something that seemed too ...
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PPP Wins 8th DEF CON Title

The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, earning its eighth victory ...
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From the Brain, Through the Skull, to the Scalp

Whether it be a rough tackle on the football field or blast exposure on the battlefield, high-impact accidents can induce a condition that’s very difficult to treat, frequently resulting in ...
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Space-Tolerant Computer Chips

Space is a highly volatile environment. Factors like radiation, extreme temperatures, and debris make outer space a challenging environment to operate technology. In particular, radiation can have ...