About Us
The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science offers an outstanding education, providing first-rate preparation for careers in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science. US News and World Report ranks WSU's Electrical Engineering graduate program 68th among nearly 180 PhD granting EE programs in the U.S.
Our world-class faculty includes a member of the National Academy of Engineering and six Fellows of national professional societies such as IEEE and the Institute of Physics. Among our award winning professors are Anjan Bose, Regents Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, an inductee of the National Academy of Engineering as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Shira Broschat, Fellow of the Institute of Physics; Diane Cook, Huie-Rogers Chair in Computer Science; Jose Delgado-Frias, Centennial Boeing Chair in Computer Engineering; Thomas Fischer, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Robert Olsen, Boeing Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Ali Saberi, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; and Behrooz Shirazi, Huie-Rogers Endowed Chair Professor. We invite you to see our faculty profiles to read more about the exciting, cutting-edge research being conducted by our faculty.
With 36 tenure-track faculty members, 8 full-time instructors, 130 graduate students, more than 550 undergraduates, and $2.6M (3-yr running average) in annual research expenditures, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) consistently ranks among the top 100 electrical and computer engineering schools nationally by U.S .News and World Report. EECS houses one of the few NSF National Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC), called CDADIC, and is a key member of another IUCRC, called PSERC.
Our electrical and computer engineering programs encompass Computer Engineering; Control, Communications, and Signal Processing; Electrophysics; Energy and Power Systems; and, Microelectronics. Our computer science program covers Algorithms; Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Distributed Computing; Graphics; Human Computer Interaction; Networking and Communication Systems; and, Software Engineering.
EECS remains at the forefront of these research fields while educating and training the next generation of engineers – we are “Developing Minds and Changing the World.”