The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering occupies 85,000 square feet of space, much of which is devoted to funded research. The research computing facilities are excellent and include seventy minicomputers and workstations, hundreds of PCs, and extensive industrial software packages. The teaching facilities include an additional thirty UNIX workstations and forty Pentium-class PCs that run a wide variety of technical software. The computers are networked to provide access to other university computing resources and to the Internet. Financial Aid Graduate teaching and research assistantships are available from the department and are awarded on the basis of academic performance, GRE scores, college transcripts, and letters of recommendation.
Fellowships are also available in limited number.
The tuition fee may be waived for students holding graduate assistantships and fellowships.