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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nearly every EECS course is taught by one of our award-winning faculty members, not a teaching assistant. Thirteen computer labs and nine hardware labs provide our students with ample resources to achieve their academic goals. EECS graduates have aquired positions at a wide range of companies, government agencies, and research institutions, including Fortune 500 companies such as Garmin, T-mobile, Honeywell, and Northrop-Grumman.

Main Sections

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Computer Science
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Computer Engineering
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Electrical Engineering
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Interdisciplinary Computing

Notable Stats

75%
Of EECS Graduate Students Receive Funding from Assistantships or Fellowships
$1.7 M
Spent on laboratory equipment in the past six years

Graduate Research Opportunities

Graduate research opportunities are available to EECS students at both of our associated research centers: CReSIS and I2S, as well as many of other research center across campus.

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Cutting-Edge Degree Programs

A variety of undergraduate and graduate degree programs are available to students seeking to pursue a career in cutting-edge technology fields, including our new undergraduate Interdisciplinary Computing program.

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EECS News

Alumni Spotlight: Abir Haque (B.S. CS '25) Wins Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE HPEC Conference

We are thrilled to announce the outstanding achievement of recent alumnus Abir Haque (B.S. Computer Science, May 2025). Last week, Haque presented his undergraduate honors research at the prestigious 29th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) Virtual Conference. His talk, titled "GPU-Accelerated, Mixed Precision GMRES(m) with Varied Restarts," was...

EECS Professor David O. Johnson Named Kansas Board of Regents Faculty of the Year

The Kansas Board of Regents recognized our own David O. Johnson, a teaching professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, as one of its five 2025 Faculty of the Year award recipients. The prestigious program honors outstanding contributions to teaching, student success, research, and Kansas communities. Johnson...

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Research Grant Awarded to Professor Cuncong Zhong for Pioneering RNA Bioinformatics Research

The Department of EECS is pleased to announce that Dr. Cuncong Zhong, an assistant professor, is serving as one of the two Principal Investigators on a major new NIH R01 research grant titled “Computational Methods for the In-Depth Study of RNA Structural Motifs.” This four-year, $1.1 million project (with $550,000...

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