The MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department is an engineering department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious in the world, and offers degrees of Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, and Doctor of Science.

History

The curriculum for the electrical engineering program was created in 1882, and was the first such program in the country. It was initially taught by the physics faculty. In 1902, the Institute set up a separate Electrical Engineering department. The department was renamed to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1975, to highlight the new addition of computer science to the program.

Academics

Current faculty

Professors

* Silvio Micali * Harold Abelson * Anant Agarwal * Akintunde I. Akinwande * Dimitri A. Antoniadis *

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* Arthur B. Baggeroer *

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Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Robert C. Berwick

Duane S. Boning

Rodney A. Brooks

Vincent W. S. Chan

Anantha P. Chandrakasan
* Paul E. Gray (S.B. 1954, S.M. 1955, Ph.D. 1960) * Marvin Minsky
Pablo A. Parrilo

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Jerome H. Saltzer Jerome Howard "Jerry" Saltzer (born October 9, 1939) is an American computer scientist. Career Jerry Saltzer received an ScD in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1966. His dissertation Traffic Control in a Multiplexed System was advised ...

(Sc.D. 1966) * Kenneth N. Stevens (Sc.D. 1952) *

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(S.B. 1968, Ph.D. 1973, both in

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Patrick H. Winston
* Regina Barzilay
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Associate professors

Saman P. Amarasinghe

Krste Asanovic

Sangeeta Bhatia

Michael Collins

Tomas Palacios

Professors emeriti

Amar Bose Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the fo ...

(S.B. 1951, S.M. 1952, Sc.D. 1956)
James D. Bruce
* Fernando J. Corbató
Shaoul Ezekiel
* Robert Fano (S.B. 1941, Sc.D. 1947)

Former faculty

* Leo Beranek *

Gordon S. Brown Gordon Stanley Brown (August 30, 1907 in Australia – August 23, 1996 in Tucson, Arizona) was a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. He originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems and the numerical control o ...

(S.B. 1931, S.M. 1934, Ph.D. 1938) * Vannevar Bush (Eng.D. 1916) * Jack Dennis (S.B. 1953, S.M. 1954, Sc.D. 1958) *

Harold Edgerton Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton (April 6, 1903 – January 4, 1990), also known as Papa Flash, was an American scientist and researcher, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with ...

(S.M. 1927, Sc.D. 1931) * Jay Wright Forrester (S.M. 1945) *

Irwin M. Jacobs Irwin Mark Jacobs (born October 18, 1933) is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm, and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute. As of 2019, Jacobs has an estimated net ...

(S.M. 1957, Sc.D. 1959) *

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(S.B. 1961, S.M. 1962, Ph.D. 1965) * John McCarthy *

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(S.B. 1923, S.M. 1926)

Notable alumni

References

External links

MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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