Chair's Welcome
Letter from Dr. Rao
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
Welcome to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University. With 22 faculty members and approximately 450 undergraduate students and approximately 120 graduate students, we are fortunate to have an exceptionally strong faculty and many of the best students.
Our faculty have strong records in engineering research and professional activities that make them nationally and internationally known. All our faculty teach undergraduate courses every year, and a regular member of the faculty teaches essentially every course in electrical engineering. Individual supervision of student projects in the laboratories, as well as small class size, promote an unusual degree of interaction between faculty and students.
No other department of electrical engineering offers a project laboratory experience nearly as extensive or intensive as the one at Texas Tech. The project laboratories ensure that our graduates have many opportunities to develop their technical and design creativity, considerable practical experience in written and oral communication, and experience working in teams. The overall result of the project laboratory sequence is that our graduating students exhibit an unusual degree of professional maturity.
Graduate students, as well, have many unique opportunities in the department. The graduate program in electrical engineering is general in content, and both master's and doctoral students must become proficient in an extensive range of electrical engineering areas. In addition, the master's degree has both a thesis and non-thesis option to accommodate the needs of both full-time students and working engineers.
Not all our efforts concern education in the technical matters of engineering. Ethics and other professional issues are a concern. Student chapters of IEEE and of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Honorary Societies arrange for guest speakers, visits to local plants, and friendly association between students.
The department resides in a building that has been our home since 1928. Recent renovation has preserved much of the charm of the building even as the arrangement and utilities have been updated. Every room in the building has access both to an in-building video network and to a university-wide Ethernet. Much of the research in electrical engineering is housed in the adjacent 36,000 square-foot building especially designed for research.
I would be glad to talk with you about electrical or computer engineering at Texas Tech or to show you our facilities and the campus. I look forward to hearing from you.
For more information, contact:
, Chairperson