Iowa State is a Research I university, which means you can participate in pioneering research. The National Research Council recently ranked our electrical engineering PhD program among the top 28 nationwide.
Graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) can customize their master’s or PhD degree program by choosing to specialize their research and classroom study in one of the following 10 core focus areas:
- Bioengineering
- Communications and signal processing
- Computing and networking systems
- Electric power and energy systems
- Electromagnetics, microwave, and nondestructive evaluation
- Microelectronics and photonics
- Secure and reliable computing (information assurance)
- Software systems
- Systems and controls
- VLSI
Graduate students also may select the ECpE department as their home department to pursue a degree in one of the following interdepartmental degree programs: