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Fast Facts

The Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) is a growing department with a rich history of excellence dating back more than 120 years. EECS is located in a spacious, high-tech building that opened in 2012. Students at all levels use state-of-the-art instructional facilities and equipment spanning several areas of research. Notable alumni include computing pioneer Mark Dean, Garmin co-founder Min H. Kao, and Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi among many others.

13th**

Research expenditures per tenure-line faculty member

29th**

PhD enrollment per tenure-line faculty member

$22.9m+

EECS Research Expenditures for fiscal year 2023


**According to the 2023 ASEE EECS Rankings

Our Students

The department has a vibrant and energized student body. Students work inside state-of-the-art labs and go on to careers with industry leaders. Check out some of the stats about our student body below.

Academic Year 2023-2024 BS MS PhD
Total Enrollment 1,018 180 146
Degrees Granted 182 64 28


Degrees Granted Computer Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate 171 672 255
Master’s 15 76 22
Doctorate 24 56 81


For more information, please visit the Enrollment Dashboard.

Our Faculty

The department boasts world-renown faculty that are in the top of their field. Check out some of the stats about our outstanding faculty below.

Faculty Data Total
Professors (T/TT) 44
IEEE fellows 13
Joint faculty with ORNL 11
NSF/DOE Career Award winners 13


Scholarships and Fellowships

EECS is fortunate to have a number of scholarships to award each year to qualified students who are accepted to UT, the Tickle College of Engineering, and EECS. Students must apply through onestop.utk.edu to be considered by the Scholarship Committee to be matched with available awards.

In addition to graduate teaching and research assistantships, EECS also has several competitive fellowships for graduate students that faculty advisors can nominate students to receive.

students working in Aziz Amehdullah's lab

 

Scholarship Data Total
Number of Scholarships 44
Amount Awarded $327,540*
Students Awarded Scholarships 84



*As of Fall 2025

Programs

Our department offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as graduate certificates in several disciplines. Use the dropdowns below to lean more about the programs available for EECS students.

The department offers BS, MS, and PhD programs in the following areas:

  • Computer engineering
  • Computer science
  • Electrical engineering

Additionally, the department offers a 5-year BS/MS program and Dual MS/MBA program in all concentrations. Our computer science program offers both in-person and online modalities.

The department offers graduate certificates in the following ares:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Fire Protection Engineering
  • Machine Learning
  • Power and Energy Systems
  • Wide Bandgap Power Electronics

Learn more about our graduate certificates.

The department offers the following minors:

  • Computer Science
  • Cybersecurity
  • Datacenter Technology and Management
  • Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in Computational Science
  • Machine Learning


Departmental Research

EECS faculty are respected, world-class leaders in their fields and are dedicated to teaching students and aiding them in developing the technical and communication skills necessary to have successful careers. Some of their areas of research are listed below:

Get more details on our intelligent systems research.

  • Artificial and Distributed Intelligence
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational and Systems Biology
  • Data Analytics
  • Deep Machine Learning
  • Quantum Computing
  • Graph-Theoretical Algorithms
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • Robotics

Learn more about microelectronics and electromagnetics.

  • Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits
  • Antennas and Microwaves
  • Biomedical Devices
  • Biotechnology and Bio-Sensor Design
  • Integrated Circuits

Find details about networked and embedded systems research in our department.

  • Compilers
  • Cybersecurity
  • Mobile Cloud Computing
  • Mobile Operating Systems
  • Network Privacy and Security
  • Power Control in Wireless Networks
  • Real-Time Embedded Systems
  • Sensor Networks

Learn more about the research in power systems, electronics, and renewable energy performed in our department.

  • Electric Vehicles (EVs)/Transportation Electrification
  • Power Electronics for Renewable Energy
  • Power System Monitoring and Control
  • Power Grid Modeling and Economics
  • Wide Bandgap Power Electronics

Read about our research in communications and signal processing, control, and robotics.

  • Automatic Control
  • Communications
  • Computational Imaging
  • Computer Vision
  • Graphical Programming Environments
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Statistical Signal Processing

Find more details about high-performance computing research.

  • Biomedical and Scientific
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Storage
  • Distributed Computing
  • Mathematical Software
  • Parallel Processing
  • Scalable Big Data Computation
  • Software Engineering
  • 3D Rendering

Research Centers

The department is also home to several research centers including:

As one of only six universities in the nation to collaborate with AT&T, UT is a leader in 5G research. Research conducted in the lab will have far-reaching potential in multiple areas such as precision agriculture, sports, transportation, and telemedicine.

Learn about 5G Lab

A collaborative Engineering Research Center with funding from the NSF, DoE, and more than 30 industry members, CURENT works on advanced power electronics and power systems to accommodate renewables, energy storage, and transportation electrification through breakthrough monitoring, control techniques, and devices.

Learn about CURENT

GCLab is engaged in the design and testing of efficient computational algorithms and adaptive scheduling policies for scientific computing on GPUs, cloud computing, and volunteer computing.

Learn about GCLab

A world leader in enabling technologies and software for high performance computing, ICL provides state-of-the-art tools to tackle challenging problems and develop scientific computing standards. The lab was founded by Professor Emeritus Jack Dongarra in 1989.

Learn about ICL

NICS provides a mechanism to facilitate computational science collaborations between UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As a result, countless UT students and faculty have been trained and supported in the computational needs for their research projects using HPC resources at ORNL, UT, and other national computational centers.

Learn about NICS

Inspired by the human brain, TENNLab is focused on creating a new paradigm of computing. Research encompasses current and emergent hardware implementations, theoretical models, programming techniques, and applications.

Learn about TENNLab

Student Organizations

In addition to national-level organizations open to all engineering students, EECS has several niche student organizations you should check out, including Systers: Women in EECS, VolHacks, the FIRST Robotics Alumni Chapter, UT Amateur Radio Club, as well as nationally connected discipline specific chapters for each of the EECS majors.

To be eligible for induction into Eta Kappa Nu, a student’s scholastic standing must be in the upper quarter of the junior class or the upper third of the senior class in electrical or computer engineering. The organization has more than 100,000 members and 194 chapter in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Hack4Impact is an organization that develops software for nonprofits to help make a difference in the community. Students who join will gain useful software development skills, such as UI/US design, full-stack development, and communication all while making an impact.

The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers connects electrical and computer engineering students with opportunities offered by IEEE, the department, and the college. UT also has a joint student chapter of the IEEE Power & Energy Society and IEEE Power Electronics Society.

With a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, UTKML brings together students from many backgrounds and levels of expertise to work on problems where data is readily available.

Systers recruits, mentors, and works to retain women in the fields of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science.

Membership for Tau Beta Pi is offered to students who have distinguished themselves with outstanding scholarship and character and who have conferred honor upon UT through exemplary character as undergraduates in engineering.

Founded in 1947, UTARC is for anyone with an interest in amateur radio: students, faculty, staff, and the general public.