At the University of Kansas, our graduate programs focus on advancing the state of knowledge through research and educating students to become the next generation of researchers and educators in their field. For this reason, our goal is to recruit and admit students with the aptitude and motivation to excel in the fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science.
Founded in 1864, the University of Kansas serves as a major comprehensive research and teaching institution as well as a center of learning, scholarship and creative endeavor. KU is currently home for over 20,000 undergraduate students and 5,000 graduate students from Kansas and around the world.
The main campus consists of 950 acres atop historic 'Mount Oread' in the city of Lawrence, with a population of 85,000 in northeast Kansas. KU is less than one hour away from Kansas City, to the east, and from Topeka, the state capitol, to the west.
The EECS Department began as the Electrical Engineering Department in the School of Engineering over one hundred years ago in Marvin Hall. The EE Department added Computer Engineering in the 1980s to become the ECE Department. The Computer Science Department was created in 1965 in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and merged with ECE in 1993 to form the EECS Department.
The EECS Graduate Program offers M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science; Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science; and the D.E. degree in Electrical Engineering. The department has 35 full-time faculty members and 11 full-time staff members. We currently have approximately 230 graduate students enrolled.
The EECS Department moved into its new home in Eaton Hall in Fall 2003. This 80,000 square- foot building is named after Robert J. Eaton, former chairman of Chrysler Corporation, who together with other alumni and friends of KU donated $15 million towards the construction of this new building. Our faculty and students also have extensive research space on west campus in Nichols Hall, home of the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC), the primary research center for the department.
The department's research volume has continued to be very strong and with research expenditures of over $5.5 million annually. This funding enables us to constantly upgrade our research equipment and provide support to over 100 Graduate Research Assistants. The department also funds approximately over 60 Teaching Assistants and Graders.
EECS faculty and students lead or participate in over 80 research projects funded by major agencies such as NSF, NASA, DARPA, the Air Force, the Naval Research Laboratory, NIH, and industrial research with regional high technology companies.
Research, along with education, is a top priority with our faculty. Faculty members have been very successful in obtaining external research funding, resulting in over $32 million in research and development funds over the last five years. This high level of support has provided a basis for strong collaboration between faculty and graduate students, and has resulted in numerous journal and conference publications, as well as several U.S. patents.
The department's research and teaching focus includes:
Costas Tsatsoulis , Professor, Department Chair
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Arvin Agah, Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Perry Alexander , Professor, Director of Computer Systems Design Lab, ITTC
Christopher Allen , Professor
David Andrews , Associate Professor
Shannon Blunt , Assistant Professor
Frank Brown, Associate Professor
Swapan Chakrabarti, Associate Professor
Xue-Wen Chen, Assistant Professor
Terry Clark , Assistant Professor
Daniel Deavours , Research Assistant Professor, ITTC
Kenneth Demarest , Professor
Joseph Evans, Distinguished Professor
Victor Frost , Dan F. Servy Distinguished Professor, Director of ITTC (Information and Telecommunication Technology Center)
John Gauch , Associate Professor
Susan Gauch, Professor, Director of Intelligent Systems Lab, ITTC
Prasad Gogineni , Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor, Director of NSF Science and Technology Center CReSIS (Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets)
Jerzy Grzymala-Busse , Professor
Donna Haverkamp, Assistant Professor
Ronqing Hui, Associate Professor, Director of Photonics Technology Lab, ITTC
Pannirselvam Kanagaratnam, Research Assistant Professor, ITTC
Nancy Kinnersley, Associate Professor
Man Kong, Associate Professor
James Miller, Associate Professor, Co-Director of eLearning Design Lab, ITTC
Gary Minden , Professor, Director of Communications and Networking Systems Lab, ITTC
Douglas Niehaus , Associate Professor
Erik Perrins, Assistant Professor
David Petr , Professor, Sharp Professor of Engineering, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Glenn Prescott , Professor, Sharp Professor of Engineering
James Roberts , Professor, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Public Service
James Rowland , Professor
Hossein Saiedian , Professor, Associate Chair for Edwards Campus
Sam Shanmugan , Southwestern Bell Distinguished Professor
James Sterbenz , Associate Professor
James Stiles , Associate Professor, Director of Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Lab, ITTC
Weichao Wang, Assistant Professor
Ya Anne Zhang, Assistant Professor
If you would like to learn more about our department and our graduate programs, you are encouraged to contact the EECS Graduate Office. We will be happy to answer your questions.
Graduate Office
Phone: (785) 864-4487, graduate@eecs.ku.edu
http://www.eecs.ku.edu/graduate/
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS Graduate Office
Eaton Hall, Suite 2001E
1520 W. 15th St.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7621
