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
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How To Succeed In The Entry Level Engineering Job Market
May 10, 2012 | Full Article
1.Get experience before you graduate
This is probably the single most important thing you can do for yourself, to make yourself marketable. When you graduate there is not a beautiful meadow with roses waiting for you. There is stiff competition from....Read More

Image Analysis meets Art History
April 30, 2012 | Full Article
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury is part of a team, led by Dr. Conrad Rudolph and including Dr. Jeanette Kohl (both from the Department of Art History), which has received an initial grant from the National Endowment....Read More

Book on statistical modeling and analysis for VLSI systems published
April 12, 2012 | Full Article
Prof. Sheldon Tan, along with his former graduate student Dr. Ruijing Shen (now with Synopsys Corporation, Mountain View, CA, USA) and Dr. Hao Yu from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, has published a new monograph book....Read More

Book on Camera Networks Published
March 1, 2012 | Full Article
Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury and his former graduate student, Dr. Bi Song (now at Sony Research USA) are co-authors on the recently published book “Camera Networks: The Acquisition and Analysis of Videos Over Wide Areas”. It was published....Read More

EE Graduate Student Receives Best Research Presentation Award at the Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics review
March 1, 2012 | Full Article
Electrical engineering PhD candidate K. M. Masum Habib received the best research presentation award at the competition sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). The event took place....Read More