Overview

Introduction

Welcome to the Web site of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Our department is one of the five departments in the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore. Established in 1968, it has grown to be a department of 100 academic staff members and over 1900 undergraduate and 900 graduate students.

As a publicly funded university, NUS has a three-fold mission in teaching, research and application. This is reflected in the Department's operations.

Teaching

Our first mission is to educate electrical, electronic and computer engineers for Singapore's industry. Over the years, we have been privileged to consistently attract some of the best students from Singapore and the region. Our philosophy is not only to educate engineers, but also to prepare them for future leadership roles in industry - indeed, many of our alumni are now captains of industry, leading their organisations as Chief Executive Officers and Managing Directors.

We provide a broad-based engineering education, with opportunities for specialisation and self-directed learning and development. We regularly revise the curriculum to incorporate innovations in teaching and learning. We invest much effort to enhance our students’ learning experience through the application of information technology, through the promotion of international student exchanges, overseas industrial attachments, University Scholar Program and participation in international Global Village Leadership programs.

Research

Our second mission is to strive for research leadership in selected strategic research areas which are relevant to the national strategies for science & technology. Together with the Faculty of Engineering, we aspire to be networked internationally and be a highly regarded node in the global technology landscape. In several research areas, we are known among our peers in the research community to be at the cutting edge.

Our department encourages a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach to research. We have established several research centres within the department.
These are in

• Integrated Circuit Failure Analysis & Reliability,
• Intelligent Control,
• Microwave & RF,
• Optoelectronics,
• Power Electronics.

Together with the other University departments, we participate in 5 multi-disciplinary, Faculty/University level laboratories:

• Biomedical Engineering
• Concurrent Engineering and Logistics
• Information Storage Materials
• Large Scale System
• Temasek (Defence - related)

We have close collaboration with many of Singapore's national research institutes, with linkages taking the form of education programs, major research initiatives, adjunct appointments and joint-laboratories. Our department has been instrumental in the formation of three research institutes with which we still have very close links: namely the Data Storage Institute, Institute of Communications Research and the Institute of Microelectronics.

Application

Our third mission is to focus on commercial applications for the research we carry out - through patents, licences or spin off companies.