Electrical and Computer Engineering

Address

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, Davis

2064 Kemper Hall

Davis, CA 95616-5294

Phone

(530) 752-0583

Website

http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department offers two major courses of study: 1) Electrical Engineering (EE), and 2) Computer Engineering (CE). The Electrical Engineering/Materials Science Engineering major was moved to the Chemical and Materials Science Engineering department in 2006. Both majors are ABET-accredited. The department is based out of Kemper Hall with their office on the second floor in the east wing. It is a part of the College of Engineering.

The department offers Bachelor's of Science (BS) degrees in the 3 courses of study listed above.

There is some overlap between the CE program in this department and the CSE program in the Computer Science department. Both require courses in hardware and software but CE has greater focus on electronics (e.g. electromagnetics, device physics) while CSE has greater focus on computer theory (e.g. algorithms, programming languages).

Like most engineering programs, the degree has strict course requirements and a high unit count. There is annual mandatory academic advising for ECE students to make sure they are on track, especially since requirements may change from year-to-year.

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The department offers Masters of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. There is also an BS/MS integrated degree program (IDP) that allows junior (3rd year) ECE undergrads to apply to the graduate program early and begin graduate coursework in their senior year.

All ECE grad students must take EEC290 - ECE Graduate Seminar every fall quarter.

There are two programs that MS students can follow:

Plan I (Thesis) Program:

• 36 units (15 units from 200-level engineering courses, 12 of which are in ECE, excluding 29x)
  

• 3 quarters academic residence
  

• MS Thesis
  

Plan II (Exam) Program

• 36 units (24 units from 200-level engineering courses, 18 of which are in ECE, excluding 29x)
  

• 3 quarters academic residence
  

• Comprehensive exam

For more detailed information, see http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/Grads/students/ms.html.

• 45 units (24 100/200-level units from ECE excluding 29x, 9 units outside ECE)
  

• Preliminary Exam
  

• Qualifying Exam
  

• Dissertation
  

For more detailed information, see http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/Grads/students/phd.html

The ECE department has numerous labs located in Kemper Hall. Except for some of the computer labs, they are all kept locked unless there is a class. Most of the equipment in the larger labs is hooked up to an alarm system to prevent theft. Graduate labs are generally locked at all times by keypad.

All the undergraduate computer labs have an HP Laserjet printer. An ECE account is needed to log on to any of the computers. The Computer Science labs are located in the basement.

• 1101/1105 — 40 Dell OptiPlex GX110 computers (Pentium 3 933MHz, 384MB RAM) running Red Hat Linux (kernel version 2.4.21). These machines are often used for SPICE and Matlab simulations.
  

• The printer used to be a good source of scratch paper because students would leave their cover pages lying around, but it no longer prints them.
  

• 2107 — 24 Dell Precision 380's (3.0GHz P4s, 1GB RAM) with 19" LCDs. Until spring 2006, 2107 used to have the slowest machines (HP 9000 B132Ls) in ECE. As of May 2008, they are equipped with Nvidia 8800 GTS display cards.
  

• 2110 — 21 Dell Precision 390's (Slimmer model of the 380) running Red Hat ES Linux 5. This lab is mainly used by EEC180A.
  

• 2112 — 11 Dell Precision 390's running WindowsXP. This room is used for EEC151/EEC172 and is locked when there is no class scheduled.

Each workstation in the electronics labs generally has some combination of an oscilloscope, variable power supply, function generator, and multimeter. This equipment is also quite old.

Wire, resistors, capacitors, and other parts needed for labs are obtained from room 2162 only during scheduled lab sessions.

• 2110 — 21 stations (used by EEC70, EEC180AB)
  

• 2112 — 11 stations (used by EEC151, EEC172)
  

• 2147 — 10 stations (used by EEC195A-C)
  

• 2151 — 6 stations (used by EEC194A-C)
  

• This is the Micromouse lab. The maze is kept here.
  

• 2155 — 13 stations (used by EEC112)
  

• 2157 — 11 stations (used by ENG100, EEC100, EEC114, EEC118)
  

• 2161 — 11 stations (used by ENG100, EEC100, EEC114, EEC118)

• Microfabrication Lab — Class 100 clean room used for EEC146AB and graduate work. Locked by keypad.

ECE has 37 faculty and adjunct faculty members as well as 14 emeritus faculty members. They are involved in research in areas including:

• Communications, Signal and Image Processing
  

• Computer Engineering
  

• Electronic Circuits
  

• Optoelectronics
  

• RF, Micro- and Millimeter Waves
  

• Solid-State Electronic Devices
  

• Systems and Control

Official course descriptions.

For student perspective on ECE courses, see ECE Course Reviews.