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Learning Communities

Iowa State’s learning community programs are ranked among the top 25 in the United States. Our learning communities help you start off college on the right foot—you get to take classes with students who share similar interests and meet faculty who can advise you on career options.

At Iowa State, learning communities are small groups of students who generally take one, two, or three courses together. They also may live in the same residence hall.

As a student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, you can participate in the Computer & Cyber Security Engineering Learning Community, Electrical Engineering Learning Community, or the Women in Science and Engineering Learning Community.

  • Computer & Cyber Security Engineering Learning Community

    Students in the Computer & Cyber Security Engineering Learning Community begin building their sense of community the first week of class.  The learning community involves lab sessions, academic help, and various activities centered around getting to know one another as well as providing tools to be successful at Iowa State.  Students begin working on various projects in the spring semester using the knowledge and skills they learned fall semester and showcase their creations during the senior design poster sessions.

  • Electrical Engineering Learning Community

    The Electrical Engineering Learning Community enhances the experience for first-year electrical engineering students. It involves lab sessions, academic help sessions, and community meetings that emphasize to students the value of understanding the learning process, questioning, being brave to learn new materials and ideas, and being passionate about the learning process. Students in this learning community get to develop their problem-solving skills through a variety of discussions, group work, hands-on projects, and classroom tools involving classic riddles, trigonometry, statistics, basic electrical engineering principles, MATLAB software.

  • Women in Science and Engineering Learning Community

    This learning community is designed to help women in science and engineering fields be successful by providing social and academic support. Women in this learning community also participate in activities to improve leadership skills. The Women in Science and Engineering Learning Community offers learning communities for first-year, second-year, and transfer students.