Electrical and Computer Engineering - PhD

Graduate studies in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program are broad and encompass many diverse areas such as computers and digital systems, control, communications, electronics, signal processing, electromagnetics, electro-optics, physics of electronic devices, and device fabrication. As in most areas of engineering, knowledge of mathematics and the natural sciences is combined with engineering fundamentals and applied to the theory, design, analysis, and implementation of devices and systems for the benefit of society.

• Technology

• Government

• Start-up companies

• Electronics and Photonics

• Communications, Controls, and Signal Processing

• Computer Engineering

• Qualcomm

• Intel

• Amazon

• Our Department has had two Nobel Laureates

• The first internet connection (Arpanet) was between UCSB, UCLA, Stanford, and University of Utah

• One former ECE graduate student became a NASA astronaut

• Materials Science and Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

• Biomedical Engineering

• Computer Science

• Technology Management

• Semiconductors

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence

• Internet of Things

• Energy efficiency

• Health care

• Sustainability

https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/grad