The department is divided into nine divisions with a total number of about 160 people employed.
All divisions teach students and have their own research projects.
Department research is most easily described by its common denominator signal processing. Major application areas are Image Processing, Telecommunications and Automatic Control. The department offers approximately 60 such undergraduate courses each year. While some are compulsory for all students who follow a particular programme, the majority are advanced courses chosen by students from the longer engineering programmes and the computer science programme. For those following the programme in mechanical engineering there is only one such course, that in automatic control, while all others also have compulsory courses in basic electronics and in switching theory and logical design.