Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (archive)

It's a Fact

Through the Numbers

Here’s a quick look at the ECpE department through the numbers.

  • Established: 1909
  • Alumni: More than 11,000
  • Total BS enrollment: 1,035
  • Total MS and MEng enrollment: 154
  • Total PhD enrollment: 211
  • Faculty: 51 faculty
  • Endowed chairs and professorships: 9
  • Ranking: Top 25 ECpE graduate programs among public programs (U.S.News & World Report, 2007)
  • Job placement: 98 percent of Iowa State engineering BS graduates have jobs within six months of graduation
  • PhDs awarded: 44 (from 2008-10)
  • Research expenditures: $19 million (2007-09)
  • Research centers and institutes: 11
  • NSF CAREER/PYI award winners on faculty: 12
  • IEEE Fellows on faculty: 9
  • Scholarships awarded to students: Nearly $250,000 annually

New Facilities & Equipment

  • Raith e-line nanolithography system acquired (2010)
  • 9 new research labs established in department (2008-10)
  • Sun Microsystems supercomputer acquired (2009)
  • IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer acquired (2006)
  • Nation's first Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment invented (2003)

Biennial Research Reports

Every two years the ECpE department publishes a biennial research report called Research Highlights. Click the links below to download PDF files of recent reports.