Meeting the Challenge

From Better Healthcare to Safer Computing

Globally recognized ECE faculty are finding solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges – software for securing and managing big data in healthcare, imaging and blood tests to detect and diagnose disease, prostheses to save eyesight and robotic surgical tools, cyber DNA software to stop hackers in their tracks and devices that cloak wireless transmissions, for example.

The University of Arizona is one of the country’s top public research institutions. Set in Tucson, a tech and bioscience hotspot, the UA’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering provides exceptional interdisciplinary research for students – students who say they don’t just take part in research, they drive it.

With entrepreneurial ventures that boost Arizona’s leadership in technology and top national and international companies and institutions for partners, ECE researchers are moving life-changing products out of the lab and into the marketplace with unprecedented speed.

Focus Areas

ECE – with annual external research expenditures exceeding $5 million – houses multidisciplinary research centers and labs that support internationally recognized research in the following primary areas:

• Autonomous Systems and Robotics Communications
• Biomedical Technologies
• Circuits, Microelectronics and Very-Large Scale Integration
• Communications, Coding and Information Theory
• Computer Architecture and Cloud/Distributed Computing
• Optics, Photonics and Terahertz Devices and Systems
• Signal, Image and Video Processing
• Software Engineering and Embedded Systems
• Wireless Networking, Security and Systems

Research Centers

UA Electrical and Computer Engineering values collaboration across disciplines, units and institutions. ECE faculty direct the following collaborative research centers:

• Arizona Research Institute for Solar Energy
• Broadband Wireless Access Center
• Center for Quantum Networks
• Center to Stream Healthcare In Place
• Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center