ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering

ECE Research Programs


New courses


For Spring 2010!


Fall 2009 textbook list


The Fall 2009 ECE textbook list is available online for students.


Graduate Advising Contacts


Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education and Chair, Graduate Committee
Paul Plassmann


Director, Extended Campus and Vice Chair, Graduate Committee
Joseph Tront


ECE Graduate Counselor
vt.edu email: vt.ece.gradadv


ECE Graduate Admissions
vt.edu email: vt.ece.gradadm


CPE Admission Officer
Lynn Abbott


EE Admission Officer
Louis Beex


Degree Offerings


ECE offers masters and PH.D. degree programs in electrical (EE) and computer engineering (CPE). The Ph.D. and M.S. degrees are research-based and the M.Eng. is project- based.


ECE also offers IT graduate certificates in communications, networking, and computer engineering.


See Degree Programs.

See Extended campus.


ECE Worldwide


Photograph of VT MENA Building

ECE offers graduate study at the main campus in Blacksburg, plus at locations throughout Virginia and in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. See Extended campus for more information.


IEEE Professional Resources



ECE adheres to and supports the Code of Ethics developed by the IEEE Professional Society.


We encourage all graduate students to learn and follow the IEEE publication format and referencing standards found in the Style Manual. See also the IEEE Author Digital Toolbox and the the IEEE Publishing Tools and Policies.


Events

See all upcoming events

Monday, November 23, 2009

On a Self-Organizing MANET Event Routing Architecture with Causal Dependency Awareness

11:00 AM 2010 Torgersen Hall
11 am, 2010 Torgersen. M.S. exam for Guanhong Pei.
Contact: gradadmin@vt.edu


Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Algorithms and Low Cost Architectures for Trace Buffer-Based Silicon Debug

2:00 PM 330 Durham
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Sandesh Prabhakar Details.
Contact: hsiao@vt.edu


Friday, December 4, 2009

Camera Pose Corrections for Robust Stereo Imagery

9:00 AM Unmanned Systems Lab (Plantation Road)
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Nathaniel Short Details.
Contact: abbott@vt.edu


Non-Negative Least Square Adjustment of C-Factors to Estimate Substation Peak Load

1:30 PM 320 Whittemore
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Hari Priya Moda Details.
Contact: dew@vt.edu


Deadbeat Current Control of a Switched Reluctance Motor

2:00 PM 460 Durham
Master of Science Thesis Defense for Benjamin Rudolph Details.
Contact: kramu@vt.edu


Power Systems Analysis in the Power-Angle Domain

3:00 PM 302 Whittemore Hall
Ph.D. Defense for Andrew J. Arana Details.
Contact: jreelope@vt.edu