University of Texas
ECE

Electrical & Computer Engineering Fact Sheet

Quick Facts

  • Ranked one of the top Electrical & Computer Engineering departments in the country for over a decade.

  • Second largest undergraduate program at UT.

  • 2007 U.S. News and World Report ranks UT-ECE's

    • undergraduate computer engineering program # 8
    • undergraduate electrical engineering program # 9
    • grad computer engineering # 6
    • grad electrical engineering # 10

  • We host and organize conferences on renewable energy and new technologies in utilities, integrated circuits, wireless technologies, and engineering management. This year we will host a new conference on biochips and biosensors. We have e masters' programs for working professionals (weekend classes) http://lifelong.engr.utexas.edu/degree/index.cfm

  • We also host a community outreach program to middle and high school students to get them excited about studying technology. It's called the Edison Lecture Series, been going on 4 years, with, so far, 16,000 attendees. http://edisonlectureseries.org/

ECE Faculty

63 faculty, 23 of them hired in the last 6 years.

ECE faculty includes:

  • 7 National Academy of Engineering members
  • 3 ACM Fellows
  • 25 IEEE Fellows
  • 16 National Science Foundation Young Investigator/CAREER award winners
  • 13 Endowed Chairs
  • 12 Endowed Professorships
  • 17 Endowed Fellowships

Students

For 2005/2006:

  • Average SAT score = 1324
  • Percentage of undergrad applicants who were admitted = 43%
  • Percentage of undergrads in top 10 percent of their graduating class = 89%
  • Average GRE scores of admitted applicants
  • verbal = 570
  • quantitative = 790
  • analytical = 4.5
  • Percentage of graduate school applicants who were admitted = 27%
  • Average undergrad GPA of admitted graduate school applicant* = 3.7

*includes foreign students' adjusted scores

  • 1,500 undergraduates
  • 600 graduate students
  • Our graduate students won 9 Best Paper Awards in the past year at major conferences

Research / Facilities

ECE faculty is associated with 15 research centers and 12 research labs at UT. Facilities are available in the Engineering-Science (ENS) building, Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences (ACES) building, and the Pickle Research Center. The nationally known UT library system, cleanroom facilities, a 2,900 square foot high performance visualization facility, and advanced computing resources and services are at researchers' disposal.

ECE faculty lead the nation with research in: