ECE Department Profile


Ranking
Top ten, best overall undergraduate engineering program of private universities, U.S. News & World Report, 2004

Current Statistics
• 120 MS/PhD students
• 12 MEE
•  60 BSEE students

Faculty
•  20 tenure-track ECE faculty
•  9 IEEE Fellows
•  3 faculty fellows/research faculty
•  16 Joint faculty appointments

Research Focus
•  Computer Engineering
•  Photonics and Nanoengineering
•  Systems:  Control, Communications, Control and Signal Processing

Major Research Centers and Groups
•  Center for Multimedia Communication (CMC)
•  Connexions (R)
•  Laboratory for Nanophotonics
•  MURI Center for Nanoshell Design
•  Rice Networks Group
•  Digital Signal Processing Group

Research Grants and Awards
•  More than $12M in major research grants in 2008
•  Texas Instruments Leadership University Program

Facilities
•  Duncan Hall-Dedicated Texas Instruments Wing
•  Two state of the art clean rooms
•  Undergraduate lab
•  Digital Signal Processing "Elite" lab
•  Rice Engineering Design Kitchen
 
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George R. Brown School of Engineering
Rice University
MS - 366 6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas
tel 713.348.4020
fax 713.348.5686
www-ece@rice.edu