Electrical and Computer Engineering

Four ECE students have invented a sensor-equipped glove that can translate gestures into spoken words on a cell phone. Called HandTalk, the project was developed this spring as part of the Embedded Systems Design capstone course taught by Professor Priya Narasimhan. ECE seniors Bhargav Bhat, Jorge Meza and Hemant Sikaria, and an ECE graduate student, Wesley Jin, ran with the idea, resulting in a practical research prototype.

The FCRP Center for Circuit & System Solutions (C2S2), headed by ECE Professor Rob Rutenbar, held its 2008 annual review April 17-18 in Pittsburgh. The review drew over 130 attendees from across U.S. universities, industrial and government sponsors. C2S2 is a consortium of 19 U.S. schools, 50 faculty and roughly 100 students, sponsored by the U.S. semiconductor industry and Department of Defense (DOD). Carnegie Mellon is the lead university for the C2S2 center.

Carnegie Mellon University and Taiwanese officials have established research and educational outreach programs with the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Research at the government-sponsored ITRI Lab@CMU focuses on circuit design and applications in communication, information technology, computer and consumer electronics, and multimedia.

• Center overview

Welcome to Electrical and Computer Engineering, a department of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

We offer several levels of study, all nationally recognized for their excellence in the field of electrical and computer engineering.

• Bachelor of Science
• Integrated M.S. / B.S.
• Master of Science
• Ph.D.
• ECE/Portugal Ph.D.