Message from the Chair
The EE department was founded in the early 1990's and has grown rapidly in size and stature. The Department of Electrical Engineering has 22 faculty members: 7 IEEE Fellows, 6 AAAS Fellows, 4 NSF Career Awardees, 3 ARO or ONR Young Investigator Awardees, 2 SPIE Fellows, 1 OSA and 1 APS Fellow. The latest NRC S-Ranking placed the UCR EE department in the top quartile. The faculty research expertise covers: Communications and Signal Processing, Controls and Robotics, Integrated Circuits and VLSI System Design, Intelligent Systems, and Nanoscale Materials and Devices.
The related research funding, approximately $6.4M in contract & grant expenditures in FY 09/10, provides many funded research positions for graduate and undergraduate students. More
Latest Releases

College Establishes Suresh Kumar Memorial Fund in Electrical Engineering
April 8, 2013 | Full Article
The Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside has established the Suresh Kumar Memorial Fund in Electrical Engineering to honor the late Ph.D. student Suresh Kumar Ramachandran Nair, who died June 27, 2012. The memorial fund will provide opportunities....Read More

Ozkan Lab Publishes JMR Cover Article
March 12, 2013 | Full Article
Professors Cengiz Ozkan and Mihri Ozkan, both, faculty of the Winston Chung Center published a new article on their joint work entitled “Chrysanthemum-like Carbon Nanofiber Foam for Supercapacitors with Large Areal Capacitance” in the Journal....Read More

Weekly Coffee Hour with Prof. Mihri Ozkan
February 25, 2013 | Full Article
Prof. Mihri Ozkan is having weekly coffee hours in her office with members of the Society of Women Engineers Chapter at UCR. Dr. Ozkan is the founding faculty of the SWE chapter at UCR. This week, she met with Paige Romero (3rd year MSE student, and Vice....Read More

NSF and SRC support research for enhancing thermal-related reliability and robustness of nanometer multi-core and 3D microprocessor chips.
January 31, 2013 | Full Article
Professor Sheldon Tan (PI) received a three –year grant (CCF- 1255899) from National Science Foundation and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) for exploring new techniques of enhancing the reliability and robustness....Read More

Four EE Professors Awarded $4M for Nano Material Engineering
January 28, 2013 | Full Article
The Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced that $194 million will be dedicated during the next five years to six new university microelectronics research centers to support the continued....Read More

Faculty Community Outreach
January 22, 2013 | Full Article
Professor Mihri Ozkan of the Electrical Engineering Department has been working with Selena Howard, Serene Howard and Roberto Gutierrez – juniors at John W. North High School in Riverside, CA. Juniors will be participating at a National Competition....Read More

Professor Alexander Balandin named an IEEE Fellow
November 26, 2012 | Full Article
Dr. Alexander A. Balandin, professor of electrical engineering and founding chair of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to characterization....Read More

EE Graduate Student Wins IMAPS Student Thermal Competition at Silicon Valley's Conference
November 16, 2012 | Full Article
Electrical engineering PhD candidate Zhong Yan was declared a winner of this year's Student Thermal Research Competition for his paper presented at the Thermal Management conference organized by the International Microelectronics and Packaging....Read More