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Graduate Programs

Study Electrical and Computer Engineering at a Top Research University

University of Arizona electrical and computer engineering graduate students are forward-thinking problem solvers who ultimately find themselves in high demand in academia, industry and government.

Here, you do not participate in research. You drive it, creating new technology that changes lives for the better. From communications and signal processing to advanced computer systems and networks, tap into a flexible curriculum and choose the focus of your PhD or MS, including an online master’s degree geared to working engineers.

Highlights of the UA ECE graduate program include:

  • Wide spectrum of interdisciplinary research
  • Highly ranked programs
  • Robust entrepreneurial community
  • Strong industrial ties
  • Tech and bioscience hotspot
  • Globally recognized faculty
  • Funding throughout degree lifecycle
Engineering Grad Students Drive Research

High-Profile, Interdisciplinary Research

UA electrical and computer engineering grad programs unite faculty and students from diverse disciplines and provide a number of high-profile research opportunities in the following focus areas:

  • Autonomous systems and robotics communications
  • Coding and information theory
  • Signal, image and video processing
  • Biomedical technologies
  • Computer architecture and cloud/distributed computing
  • Software engineering and embedded systems
  • Circuits, microelectronics and very-large scale integration
  • Optics, photonics and terahertz devices and systems
  • Wireless networking, security and systems

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Students in the Spotlight

Putting Consumers in Control of Heating, Cooling Costs

Xiao Qin, an application engineer at Microchip Technology who got his PhD at the UA in 2014, was on an NSF team – with mentors Jonathan Sprinkle and Susan Lysecky – that created a cost-limiting temperature controller to put consumers in charge of balancing comfort and budget. Their research and product spawned startup company Acomni.

You never know when opportunity is going to come knocking, but when it does, you better be ready.

Balancing Power, Performance in the Cloud

Farah Fargo, a senior HPC system engineer at Intel who earned a PhD at the UA in 2014, received the Best Research Poster award at the 2014 IEEE International Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference in London for her research in cloud computing and load-balancing systems.

We were managing multiple resources at the same time: the number of cores, core frequency and memory amount.

Sending Optical Fibers into Space, and Back

Brian Fox, PhD 2013, launched optical fibers aboard space shuttle Atlantis so he could study how the radiation-hardened fibers fared in the harsh space environment on the Materials International Space Station Experiment-7.

How many people get to send their research into space? MISSE is one of those rare opportunities that only come around once or twice in a lifetime.

Detecting Disease, Saving Lives

Jerrie Fairbanks, PhD 2015, says it is easy to get excited about fluorescence spectroscopy with professor Linda Powers for a mentor, and grad students who biked across Tanzania testing well water with her thought the same.

Once you’ve got a working system then there’s a large sense of accomplishment, especially if it’s a system that’s going to be valuable in saving lives and disease detection.

Developing Diplomacy Skills

Stephanie Zawada, MS 2017, attended a leadership workshop on science diplomacy in Washington D.C., hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The workshop allowed me to engage with a constellation of science policy superstars and exposed me to new pathways to develop trust and facilitate better communication with government officials.

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Rankings
36 th
graduate computer engineering
(U.S. News & World Report)
42 nd
graduate electrical/electronic/communications
(U.S. News & World Report)
22 nd
UA’s national ranking for R&D expenditure
by U.S. public universities
(National Science Foundation)
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