Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon's Sigma chapter of the Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society earned the organization's Outstanding Chapter Award for academic year 2008–2009. The award is a mark of distinction for a college chapter, which is judged according to its activities involving service to others. All chapters with exemplary programs can win, and the Sigma chapter joins 21 other chapters from colleges and universities across the country in receiving the award.

Led by the elected HKN officers and the advisory team of George Westinghouse Professor of ECE David Casasent and Director of Alumni and Student Relations Susan Farrington, the Sigma chapter celebrated unprecedented success during the 2008–2009 academic year. The chapter, which totaled nearly 100 members in that time, strategically expanded established programs in order to increase member involvement in chapter activities and provide vital services to the ECE community.

Raj Rajkumar, Professor of ECE and CS, has been awarded the Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems.

This award is given to one individual every year who has made exceptional contributions to the domain of real-time systems.

The award was presented at a banquet during the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium held in Washington D.C. from December 2 to 4, 2009.

Adjunct Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Paulo Veríssimo has been named a fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The designation, which is the ACM's highest membership grade, is conferred on ACM members who have distinguished themselves by outstanding technical and professional achievements in information technology. Veríssimo was cited specifically for his contributions "to dependable and secure distributed computing."

Veríssimo, a full-time professor in the Department of Informatics at Portugal's University of Lisbon, focuses his research efforts on architecture, as well as middleware and protocols for distributed, pervasive and embedded systems — specifically the facets of real-time adaptability and fault/intrusion tolerance. He is an IEEE fellow, former head of the Department of Informatics, and founder and current director of the University of Lisbon's Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory (LASIGE). He's authored more than 150 refereed publications in international scientific conferences and journals; co-authored five books; and has delivered several keynote speeches, tutorials and seminars across the globe on fault- and intrusion-tolerance, real-time, and security in distributed systems.

The DARPA Center for Memory Intensive Self-Configuring Integrated Circuits (MISCIC) at Carnegie Mellon University addresses the most pressing challenges facing integrated systems — their cost, reliability, power consumption, and adaptability. Our experts will explore and refine integrated circuit reconfigurability (without sacrificing performance), low power operation, fault and damage tolerance, scalability, and manufacturing cost reduction at low volumes.

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Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering, a department of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

We offer several levels of study, all nationally recognized for their excellence in the field of electrical and computer engineering.

• Bachelor of Science
• Integrated M.S. / B.S.
• Master of Science
• Ph.D.
• ECE/Portugal Ph.D.