Message from the Chair
Welcome to the 2023 academic year! We are looking forward to another exciting year for the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department. We had an excellent year in 2022 with healthy enrollment and high demand in industry for our graduates. We also had a highly productive year for research from our faculty and students and produced 74 publications.
In other news, in June 2022, we were able to have our graduation celebration in-person once again. It took place at Smith Hall, and we had a fantastic turnout of students, friends, and family. We celebrated 84 graduates from our undergraduate programs, 105 from our master’s program and had 6 PhD graduates. We also completed a very successful first year for our Portland Institute Nanjing undergraduate program and we start the graduate program in fall quarter (2022). This is a joint program between Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Portland State University.
I am looking forward to seeing more students and faculty returning to campus this year. Most of our courses and labs are back in-person now but many lectures are being recorded and posted to provide flexibility for our students. Our department continues to be highly committed to student success and will provide a high-quality education whether instruction is remote, hybrid or in- person.
For those of you looking for information about the ECE department, we offer degrees at the Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral levels. Our department is the second largest in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science (MCECS). We have one of the largest master’s degree granting programs on the west-coast of the U.S.
We are an urban research university located in downtown Portland, OR. Our research is in several areas and among our strengths are Power Engineering, Signal Processing, IC Design and Test, Embedded Systems, Electromagnetics, and Acoustics. Most of our faculty are members of their research societies and many are Fellows. There are opportunities for both undergraduates (through, for example, the MCECS Undergraduate Research and Mentoring Program) and graduate students to work with our faculty doing cutting edge research. We have excellent facilities for both teaching and research including our newly renovated and expanded Electronics Prototyping Laboratory (EPL).
Our department greatly values our diverse student body that is a mix of traditional and non- traditional students. Many of our students work part or full time while pursuing their ECE degrees and we do our best to schedule courses with this in mind and try to accommodate the variety of student needs.
We have strong collaborations with local technology companies and meet regularly with our Industry Advisory Board. These relationships have helped our department develop an outstanding Senior Capstone Program. Further, most of our undergraduate students have at least one internship and many have two or more. Many of our graduate students also participate in internships with local industry.
Our ECE Department continues to make important contributions to the local community while also doing research that has global impact. As we strive for continuously improvement, we invite you to join us and help strengthen us further.
Martin Siderius
Professor and Chair
Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission
We prepare students for successful engineering careers and lifelong learning, and we conduct research that creates new technologies and engineering knowledge.
Vision
Our vision is to be a source of premier electrical and computer engineering talent and high-impact research. This means our graduates are successful, our research is recognized worldwide, and we are the intellectual center for our discipline in the Portland region.
Values
We value:
- The success of our graduates
- Contributions to research and knowledge creation
- High intellectual and ethical standards
- High quality education for traditional and nontraditional students
- A diverse student population
- Our contribution to the Oregon economy
- Lifelong learning
- Technical and professional relationships with the engineering community
Updated Winter 2023