Electrical and Computer Engineering

Princeton’s electrical engineering program, started in 1889 as one of the first in the United States, remains at the forefront of the field, with research aimed at improving human health, energy and environmental systems, computing and communications, and security. Specific areas of research include the physics of semiconductors; electronic and optical devices; the design of computers and networks; materials science and nanotechnologies; algorithms and structures for information; and biological technologies.

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Experimental setup with green laser light and a small diamond sample between metal contacts. — Researchers led by Nathalie de Leon have developed a magnetic sensing technique using quantum entanglement to detect previously hidden fluctuations in advanced materials such as superconductors. The researchers implant point defects in lab-grown diamonds to reveal an unprecedented look at magnetic field structure and correlated noise, a quantity that is beyond the reach of existing instruments. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Diamond defects, now in pairs, reveal hidden fluctuations in the quantum world

Man at a podium gestures to a screen with a diagram of an experiment. — Dean Andrew Houck explains a classic experiment in a talk welcoming first-year families. Photos by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Dean gives visiting families a glimpse of quantum ‘magic’

Five panelists share a laugh onstage before an audience — Student panelists shared lessons from their experiences at Princeton. Photos by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Asking for help is easy, and expected, engineering students tell first-year families

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Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Tweezers hold a quantum microchip. — Princeton Engineers have introduced a superconducting quantum computing chip with qubits that last more than 1 millisecond, three times longer than the best ever reported in a lab setting and nearly fifteen times longer than industry standard processors. Photos by Matthew Raspanti, Office of Communications

Princeton's new quantum chip built for scale

Sneha Goenka portrait.

Sneha D. Goenka named Innovator of the Year by MIT Technology Review

December 08

4:30 pm

Fast-Tracking Sustainability: Accelerating Innovation with Computation and Automation

Maria Apostolaki

Ravindra Bhatt

Minjie Chen

Stephen Chou

Nathalie de Leon

Jaime Fernández Fisac

Jason Fleischer

Tian-Ming Fu

Yasaman Ghasempour

Claire Gmachl

Sneha Goenka portrait

Sneha Goenka

Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Andrew Houck portrait

Andrew Houck

Niraj Jha

Chi Jin

Portrait of Antoine Kahn

Antoine Kahn

Sanjeev Kulkarni

Sun-Yuan Kung

Stephen Lyon

Sharad Malik

Iain McCulloch portrait

Iain McCulloch

Prateek Mittal

H. Vincent Poor

Paul Prucnal

Barry Rand

Alejandro Rodriguez

Portrait of Guillermo Sapiro

Guillermo Sapiro

Kaushik Sengupta portrait

Kaushik Sengupta

Mansour Shayegan

Tom Silver portrait

Tom Silver

James Sturm

Jeffrey Thompson

Hakan Tureci

Hossein Valavi

Hossein Valavi

Naveen Verma

Pramod Viswanath

Mengdi Wang

David Wentzlaff

Gerard Wysocki

Saien Xie