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

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

Since 2001, the number of Master's degree graduates has risen steadily and Rice continues to be a top producer of computer science and electrical engineering graduate and undergraduate students each year.

The number of all Electrical and Computer Engineering graduates has increased by 7% from the 2003 level.

In 2003, 108 students received degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

In 2004, the number of PhD recipients doubled from the 2003 level.

Faculty
•  19 tenure-track Faculty (Primary Appointments in ECE)
•  9 IEEE Fellows
•  3 Faculty Fellows/Research faculty
•  16 Joint Appointments

Research Focus
•  Network and embedded systems architecture
•  Computer-aided design for emerging nanotechnologies
•  Terahertz and laser spectroscopy and imaging
•  Semiconductor nanostructures

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

Research Grants and Awards
•  More than $12.3M in major research grants in 2003
•  As a Texas Instruments Leadership University, Rice works closely with TI to develop the digital future through innovative DSP education and collaborative research

Facilities
•  Two state of the art clean rooms
•  Recently renovated undergraduate lab
•  DSP "Elite" Lab
•  Duncan Hall
    - Houses CITI, Computational & Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics Departments
    - Dedicated Texas Instruments Wing