June 25, 2025
Whitacre College of Engineering Announces 2025 Orval Leroy Lewis Staff Award Recipient
Andrew Vanderpool is the recipient of the 2025 Orval Leroy Lewis Staff Award
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Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Fast Facts
$105k/yr
Median Starting Pay
Newly Constructed, State-of-the-Art Labs
Evelyn Davies Robotics Lab
94%
Job Placement At Graduation
Research Areas
Pulsed Power and Power Electronics (P3E)
The Center for Pulsed Power and Power Electronics (P3E) has three primary research areas:High Voltage Plasmas, Pulsed Power, and Power Electronics with applications ranging from pulsed electric field, PEF, treatment of agricultural product to high power microwaves, HPM.
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Computer Vision and Image/Signal Analysis
Computer Vision and Image/Signal Analysis is an area advancing computational technologies to extract or recover meaningful information from various data sets with unwanted noises.
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Nanophotonics and Nanotechnology
Nanophotonics research explores fundamental science in optics and their light-matter interactions at the nanoscale, and it develops various small-scale photonic devices. Nanotechnology is providing the required fabrication and measurement technologies for developing such nanoscale photonic and electronic components.
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Microelectronics and MEMS
Microelectronics and MEMS research investigates semiconductor materials, integrated circuits, energy-efficient solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), sensor systems, micro-actuators, and RF systems.
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Department News
June 06, 2025
Texas Tech Researcher Aims to Strengthen Security with Semiconductor Light Sources
Whitacre College Associate Professor Hieu P. Nguyen earned a Department of Defense grant to create high efficiency/power nanowire light sources that will keep troops safe.
May 01, 2025
Texas Tech Awarded $3.75 Million for 3D Heterogeneous Integration Program
The nationally and federally funded program will combine technical education with hands-on experience to train engineers how to be leaders in semiconductor innovation.
April 29, 2025
2025 Distinguished Engineers Awards Recipients Announced
The Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering celebrates esteemed alumni with the Distinguished Engineer Awards.
What kind of jobs can I get?
Electrical Engineering
Students in our program go on to get jobs such as:
• Biomedical Engineer
• Electrical Devices Engineer
• Embedded Systems Engineer
• Power Engineer
• Quality Engineer
• Solid State Devices & Semiconductor Devices Engineer
• Telecommunications & Networks Engineer
Computer Engineering
Students in our program go on to get jobs such as:
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Engineer
• Biomedical Engineer
• Computational Modeling Engineer
• Computer Design Engineer
• Digital & Image Procesing Engineer
• Embedded Systems Engineer
• Telecommunications & Networks Engineer
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Email
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