Why Choose EE?
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Excellent Faculty
EE students have access to award-winning faculty who maintain outstanding standards in teaching and research. Class sizes in EE are small and both graduate and undergraduate students are invited to participate in faculty research projects. Experts in their fields, our faculty are consistently awarded both research funding and prestigious honors. | Read More >>
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Cutting-Edge Research
From nanoelectronics to a silicon chip that imitates the retina in an octopus eye, from radar imaging to multimedia video compression, our faculty is actively pursuing a wide range of interesting research. | Read More >>
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A Close-Knit Department
We are a close-knit department which allows for a special kind of camaraderie between students and faculty. The research and social environment is active and friendly; our students consistently give the faculty and staff high marks for their open-door policy.
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Established and Growing
EE was one of the founding departments of UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1946. From these early beginnings, we have become a highly projective department with a strong national reputation. We offer programs spanning the broad field of electrical engineering, and are continuing to hire new faculty as part of our ongoing vision of excellence for this department. | Watch Video >>
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Research Centers
Our centers, labs, and research groups provide numerous opportunites for state-of-the-art research. | Read more >>
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Career Moves
Electrical engineering graduates command high salaries. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, the starting EE B.S. salary in 2007 was over $55,000 and was over $66,000 for a starting M.S. The median income for all EEs was over $82,000. | Read more >>
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Research Funding and Sponsors
During the past four years, our department research expenditure was over $12 million with 26 new grants totaling $4.45 million.
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Industry Connections
Our industry partners include:
- Boeing
- CUBRC (Calspan-UB Research Center)
- Erie County Medical Center
- General Motors
- Lockheed Martin
- Motorola
- Praxair
- United Airlines
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Multidisciplinary
Our students are uniquely poised for creative interaction with a variety of academic disciplines, including geography, architecture, management, phsyics, and mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Highly interdisciplinary by nature, our faculty routinely engage in cooperative ventures with other departments, industry, governmental agencies, and area hospitals. We are involved in multidisciplinary projects in such diverse areas as nanoelectronic devices, single photon detection, radar image processing, biomimetics, and DNA imaging.