Founded in 1889, Clemson University is the land grant university of South Carolina. It has approximately 16,000 students including about 3,600 graduate students. The College of Engineering and Science is one of the larger components with an enrollment of approximately 4,200 students. Along with Electrical and Computer Engineering, the College has engineering departments in mechanical, civil, chemical, industrial, ceramic, agricultural and biological engineering, bioengineering, general engineering and environmental systems engineering, and includes degree programs in engineering graphics, materials science and engineering and engineering mechanics.

Clemson University has a traditionally rich background in fundamental and applied engineering which it has maintained as the research areas have focused onto increasingly narrower topics within the subject disciplines. This heritage provides the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Clemson University with the breadth to offer a sound undergraduate education. At the same time the specialization of faculty provides the stimulating environment for research. The Department is recognized for its research by its faculty, and additional pages in this www server provide more information on the degree programs and the research conducted in the Department.

The town of Clemson is a growing college community located in the scenic northwestern corner of South Carolina, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The city and campus border the 57,000 acre Lake Hartwell. Clemson is a three hour drive from the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, five hours from the Atlantic coast beaches, and approximately three hours from Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC. Clemson is 12 miles from Interstate Highway 85, and is 45 miles southwest of the Greenville-Spartanburg airport.

The stated mission of the Department is (1) to educate and promote the intellectual development of both undergraduate and graduate students of electrical and computer engineering, (2) to promote the growth of leadership and creativity among the students and faculty, and (3) to develop and share knowledge. In the undergraduate program we strive to prepare graduates for participation in the engineering and scientific community as well as for graduate education and lifelong learning. The graduate program exists to expose students to research methodologies and to participate with students in developing new knowledge. As a land-grant institution, Clemson University is committed to provide an educational experience of eminent quality, to maintain research programs of recognized national caliber, which contribute to the advancement of technology in solving real-world problems, and to the service of the community at large. Certainly the accomplishments of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department to this end are a direct result of the quality of the faculty and students coupled with the support of alumni and friends.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has an enrollment of 360 undergraduate students, sophomores and above, and 140 resident graduate students in two separate degree program areas: Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. As one of the larger departments on campus, the ECE Department plays a major role in degree production, in sponsored research activity and in service to the community.

The graduate programs offer a variety of opportunities for development through research, specialized formal course work and teaching experience. The Department offers the Master of Engineering, the Master of Science, and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees in both electrical engineering and computer engineering. Currently there are about 50 students in the Ph.D. program and about 90 students in the M.S. and M.E. programs. Approximately 100 of these students receive financial support in the form of fellowships, industrial grants, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships.

The graduate studies and research programs include a spectrum of activity reflecting the interests and expertise of the faculty. Particularly noteworthy across the faculty are the breadth of education, the balance between experience and youth, the record of recent publications, and the research funding obtained in recent years. The 30 full-time faculty members include seven IEEE fellows, one endowed chair and six named professorships. Current focus areas of research include Communications/DSP, Computer Communications, Computer Systems Architecture, Controls/Robotics, Electronics, Electromagnetics, and Power.

Research programs and laboratories include the Center for Semiconductor Device Reliability Research (CSDRR), Electromagnetics Laboratories, the CU Electrical Power Research Association (CUEPRA), the Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory, the Instruction Level Parallelism Laboratory, the Parallel Architecture Research Laboratory, the Power Quality and Industrial Applications Laboratory, the Radar Systems Laboratory, the Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, the Speech Processing Laboratory, and the Wireless Communications Program. The Department occupies over 20,000 square feet of research space with approximately 9,000 square feet located in the state-of-the-art Fluor Daniel Engineering Innovation Building. The College of Engineering and Science is well-equipped with a variety of networked workstations and personal computers that serves as the foundation for course computing needs as well as a backbone of computing support for the research programs. In addition throughout the ECE Department there are a variety of workstations and dedicated computers maintained in the various research laboratories.