NJIT’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is at the hub of New Jersey's electronics enterprises. The educational and research programs have been evolved through interaction and growing partnership with companies including AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, IBM, Sarnoff, Oracle Corporation, PSE&G, Globix, Telcordia, and MITRE Corp.

The Department has several state-of-the art collaborative research centers including the Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research, Electronic Imaging Center and an NSF Industry-University Co-Operative Research Center (IUCRC) in Information Assurance.