What is ECE?

What is Electrical and Computer Engineering?

It’s your 24/7 entertainer, connector and security blanket. It’s your GPS, your camera, your jukebox, and yes, sometimes it’s even your phone. But who’s making all those devices, networks and connections ring in perfect harmony? We are.

Electrical and Computer Engineers use bold thinking and tenacious ingenuity to cram a world of information and a universe of connections into the palm of your hand. All so you never miss a call, pic, or post.

Program Contacts

Undergraduate Program

Jane Simpson

Office: SL-160B
Email: eceugadv@iupui.edu

Graduate Program

Sherrie Tucker

Phone: (317) 278-9726
Office: SL-160
Email: stucker@iupui.edu

What is Purdue University Computer Engineering?

Purdue University Computer engineering (CmpE) is an evolutionary degree program that has emerged from electrical engineering and computer science that deals with many aspects of computer systems. This degree program combines analytical skills, hardware expertise, and software knowledge. Computer engineers may design computer systems, networks, operating systems, or software.

Fascinated by computers? How about the hardware, software, and networks that make them run? Computer Engineering at IUPUI goes behind the scenes of some of the most influential technology of the day. Learn to combine analytical skills, hardware expertise, and software knowledge to design the computer systems, software, networks, and operating systems that are changing the world as we know it. 

What is Purdue University Electrical Engineering?

Purdue University Electrical Engineering (EE) is much more than just building electrical circuits. Electrical engineers are responsible for integrating electronic devices, communication systems, and electric power into all aspects of our daily lives. The EE program is designed to prepare students to work in manufacturing, energy systems, robotics, circuits, communications, information processing and biomedical engineering. 

Electrical engineering deals with electricity, at every level from electromagnetic and the tiniest computer circuitry, to large-scale electronic systems, learn to power the things that power life, every day. With an Electrical Engineering degree from IUPUI, the world is at your fingertips-from consumer electronics and optics, to power efficiency and storage, to telecommunications devices, broadcasting systems, analog circuitry and more. 

Our mission is to provide to our constituents:

  • High quality and well-rounded educational experiences that promote critical thinking, scholarly work, and effective communication
  • An environment that encourages and promotes excellence in technical proficiency, leadership, research, creative pursuits, and lifelong learning as well as fosters respect for diversity
  • Educational programs that are regularly and rigorously reviewed and assessed for continuous improvement
  • Outreach and accessibility to the educational, research, and service needs of the broader community through collaboration within school and campus and with other educational institutions, businesses, and government agencies.

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

The two sets of PEOs listed here are for our bachelor's degree programs.

The Program Educational Objectives of the Electrical Engineering degree program are to prepare graduates who will be successful in their chosen career paths by:

  1. becoming productive and ethical problem solvers in the private or public sector
  2. pursuing and completing graduate studies, and/or
  3. Taking on leadership or contributing roles in their professions, as well as in their communities and the global society.

The Program Educational Objectives of the Computer Engineering degree program are to prepare graduates who will be successful in their chosen career paths by:

  1. becoming productive and ethical problem solvers in the private or public sector
  2. pursuing and completing graduate studies, and/or
  3. Taking on leadership or contributing roles in their professions, as well as in their communities and the global society.

Student Outcomes (SOs)

These student outcomes address the abilities of our students upon graduation.  Engineering programs must demonstrate that their students attain the following outcomes: Student outcomes are outcomes (1) through (7).

  1. an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
  2. an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
  3. an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences
  4. an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts
  5. an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives
  6. an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
  7. an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies.