The department offers opportunities for study in a broad spectrum of areas within the disciplines of electrical and computer engineering Research in the department is generally organized into research themes including biocomputing and biomedical devices and systems circuits and systems computer architecture and systems nanosystems electronic devices and materials photonics quantum computing sensing and signals and waves and metamaterials Students typically affiliate with one of four areas of specialization 1 computer engineering 2 engineering physics 3 microelectronics photonics and nanotechnology and 4 signals information processing and machine learning Detailed descriptions of course offerings faculty research interests and degree requirements may be found on the department s website Interdisciplinary opportunities that connect the ECE program with other engineering departments computer science the natural sciences and the medical school are available Students in the department may also be involved in research conducted in one of the Duke centers Further under a reciprocal agreement with neighboring universities a student may include some courses offered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in Raleigh Since an important criterion for admitting new students is the match between student and faculty research interests applicants are strongly encouraged to indicate the specialization area s in which they are interested

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