Shooting the Moon to Illuminate the Stars

STEMnetX receives Moonshot Grant to collaborate with Pitt Space to promote STEM education in high school classrooms

ECE alumnus Samarth Chopra Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Pitt Space Boldly Going into STEM Education—and Beyond

STEMNetX welcomes inaugural Space Engineering Pathways cohort and inspires the next generation of STEM leaders

Doing What He Loves—and Not Done Yet

Pitt engineering alumnus Lloyd Yates reflects on the paths that led to success

Spring 2025 Design Expo

Pitt engineering students showcase innovative, collaborative problem-solving at the Spring 2025 Design Expo

Designing Functional—and Sustainable—Software and Electronics

Pitt’s Amr Mahmoud receives an Engineering for One Planet Mini-Grant to promote sustainable computing

Transforming Immunotherapy Design

Pitt’s Natasa Miskov-Zivanov receives CAREER Award for developing a system to design new cancer immunotherapies

Ravi Rahangdale Celebrated as Swanson School 2025 Distinguished Alumnus in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Robert P. Colwell Celebrated as a Swanson School Distinguished Alumnus

New Round of NSF Fellowships Support Pitt Engineering Graduate Students

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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.