It is my pleasure to welcome you to the NJIT Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) website where you will get information about the Department structure, faculty and staff academic and research programs, special events, industry-university partnerships and recent developments.

The ECE Department faculty and staff are committed to provide an outstanding educational experience to our undergraduate and graduate students to prepare them for personal and professional achievements. Our academic and research programs are geared toward providing state-of-the-art education with a touch of real-world experience through a dynamic curriculum that has been developed through collaborative efforts from academia as well as industry. Our special co-op and internship programs bring university education into the limelight of industrial environment. The state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories are designed to provide lifelong learning through day, evening and distance learning programs to bring a wide spectrum of opportunities. Our programs are designed to serve the needs of training the future workforce and meet the challenges of new and emerging technologies of the 21st century.

ECE faculty and staff are caring professionals with outstanding credentials. Faculty members are nationally and internationally known for their research achievements. Several research centers and laboratories provide a unique blend of resources and facilities to pursue research at the cutting edge of technology in active collaboration with leading industries and academic institutions. The Department has been recently reorganized into thrust areas to meet the challenges of future technology development, advancement of science and engineering, and industry needs.

I would like to invite you to visit various homepages of our academic and research programs, faculty and staff and state-of-the-art facilities and resources to support high quality educational programs with life-long learning opportunities. Bringing industries as partners in our educational and research programs provides an outstanding environment for innovation, knowledge discovery and learning. We are committed to further enhance our quality academic and research programs to the next level of national and international recognition.

Atam P. Dhawan, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering