Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Since its founding in 1893 by two legends, George Westinghouse and Reginald Fessenden, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Pitt has excelled in education, research, and service. Today, the department features innovative undergraduate and graduate programs and world-class research centers and labs, combining theory with practice at the nexus of computer and electrical engineering, for our students to learn, develop, and lead lives of impact.

Summer 2025 Newsletter

News

IEEE Honors Pitt’s Fang Peng with Medal in Power Engineering

IEEE Honors Pitt’s Fang Peng with Medal in Power Engineering

When Fang Peng was in fourth grade, the remote mountain village in China where he grew up received electricity for the...

10 Year Anniversary of Hammond Scholarship—Graduate Students Still Meeting Industry Expectations

10 Year Anniversary of Hammond Scholarship—Graduate Students Still Meeting Industry Expectations

Innomotics, a leading global company that provides motors and drive systems, has awarded the University of Pittsburgh’s...

Powering a Brighter STEM Future

Powering a Brighter STEM Future

On February 7, 2026, the University of Pittsburgh’s Brandon Grainger spent his Saturday at Baldwin High School, seeing...

Two Heads in the Cloud

Two Heads in the Cloud

Iyan Nekib (BS ECE ’25) and PJ Granieri regularly use applications like Spotify and Adobe that run on the cloud-native...

Five Pitt Electrical Engineering Students Receive IEEE PES Scholarships

Five Pitt Electrical Engineering Students Receive IEEE PES Scholarships

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power & Energy Society (PES) has recognized five students...

Events

Mar 23

Spring Blood Drive

Schedule your appointment at vitalant.org: Search group code UCU190040 to schedule your donation or enter zip code.If...

Mar 25

Swanson School of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Banquet

By invitation only. A yearly ceremony to recognize outstanding alumni from the six engineering departments and one...

Apr 11

First-Year Engineering Conference

Friends and family are invited to see their first-year engineering students present their semester-long papers for a...