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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News

  • Card with words: Graduate Student Award for Excellence.

    Award for Excellence honors graduate student achievement

  • Man speaks near podium while pointing at a scientific graphics on a screen.

    Initiative aims to make Princeton a leader in AI accelerated engineering

  • Rendering of global satellite network transmitting signal beams to Earth.

    Simple shift could make low Earth orbit satellites high capacity

  • NJ R&D Council honors pioneering contributions by Princeton researchers

  • Crowd of people at a conference

    White paper maps the course of blockchain research

  • Portrait of Mittal.

    Prateek Mittal wins ACM Grace Hopper Award for enhancing internet privacy and security

Events

  • October 10

    4:30 pm

    SPECTRE: Signal Processing with Efficient Compute for Transmit and Receive Environments

  • October 11

    11:00 am

    Rethinking Digital Construction: A Collaborative Future of Humans, Machines, and Craft

  • November 01

    4:30 pm

    Challenges and Opportunities for Ultra-low Power Design for Quantum Computing Applications