Creating technological advances that improve everyday life and change the world for the better—that’s what drives us in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Our world-class faculty members continually produce groundbreaking research in the areas of power and energy, computer architectures, embedded systems, micro/nano scale devices and materials, signal processing, machine learning and computational electromagnetics. We help students chart lucrative, satisfying career paths in industry, academia and government.
In these courses, teams of 4-6 students work together to integrate their engineering knowledge to design and produce prototypes for real-world projects provided by faculty, industry, non-profit organizations, and other project partners.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kentucky invites applications for the position of Lecturer. This is a non-tenure-eligible faculty position with duties oriented primarily towards undergraduate instruction in the electrical and computer engineering programs.
Learn what motivates James Russell as a first-generation college student, computer engineering major, and Pigman Scholar at the University of Kentucky.
This fall, the University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering welcomed 10 new faculty members.
John Young and Rob Adams, faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, have received a one-year extension of their award from the Office of Naval Research to study electromagnetic fields in seawater.
The University of Kentucky is the only university that has had a successful hypersonic reentry, a testament to the leading role the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering plays in in hypersonic research and space exploration.
Rosemary E. Alden and Steven B. Poore, received the first and second prize, respectively, in the Graduate Student Poster Competition at the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Transmission & Distribution (T&D) International Conference and Exposition.
