Electrical and Computer Engineering

Two ECE adjunct faculty members, current and former Ph.D. students and researchers, have two papers in the upcoming January/February issue of IEEE Micro Top Picks.

The papers, whose co-authors include adjunct ECE/CS faculty members Babak Falsafi and Anastasia Ailamaki, former Ph.D. student Tom Wenisch, and current Ph.D. student Michael Ferdman, represent some of the year's most significant research publications in computer architecture based on novelty and long term impact.

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Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu, ABB Professor of ECE and director of the Data Storage Systems Center, is developing a technology seen as a dark horse in the race toward tomorrow's ultra-dense hard disk drives, according to an October 19 article in EE Times. Zhu is developing a prototype of his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technique he believes will pack three terabits of data in a square inch of a spinning disk.

The technique represents a third option in an ongoing debate over the next big shift in hard disk technology expected to emerge in the next year or two. (Read more...)

Graduate student Tudor Dumitras has won the prestigious John Vlissides Award at the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA).

This award is given to the doctoral student showing significant promise in applied software research and the most potential for having a significant impact on the practice of software development.

At the Center for Nano-Enabled Device and Energy Technologies (CNXT), a multidisciplinary team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers work to harness nanoscale research underway at both the College of Engineering and the Mellon College of Science. The center, which is housed at the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), primarily focuses on nanoscale research that enables the design of innovative systems for sensing and on future energy generation and storage technologies. The secondary focus of the center is on advanced information and communication technologies.

• Center overview

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.

Applications for the ECE M.S. and Ph.D. programs are now being accepted for the Fall 2010 enrollment period.