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Graduate Degrees offered:
M.S., M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
M.S. in Wireless and Network Engineering

The rapidly growing graduate program in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is uniquely positioned to advance enabling technologies that drive revolutionary developments in nanotechnology, biotechnology, optical technologies, information and communications technologies, and sensors and sensor networks.  

The department offers students a variety of research opportunities in three broad and highly integrated areas of concentration:

  • Optoelectronics and biophotonics, conducted in conjunction with Lehigh's new Center for Optical Technologies;
  • Wireless communications, networking, and sensing: the creation of a center in this area is being planned with the department of Computer Science and Engineering;
  • Microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), flexible displays, and biotechnology research, performed in Lehigh's Sherman Fairchild Center for Solid-State Studies and associated new programs in bioengineering.

Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty maintain nationally funded programs in critical research areas such as compound semiconductor optoelectronic devices, silicon photonics, optical communications, displays, microelectronics fabrication, MEMS, bioengineering, wireless communications and networking, sensing, signal processing, code-division multiple access, and space-time coding.


Individual projects include DNA testing on a chip, ion-channel transport in biological cells, nanoelectronics, engineered nanosystems, bioMEMS,  wide-bandgap UV semiconductor devices, quantum dot IR materials, silicon photonics, flexible organic displays, high-frequency compound semiconductor devices for wireless communications, sensor fusion, wireless channel access, and encryption. Interdisciplinary projects are carried out with researchers in the departments of chemical engineering, and materials science and engineering, and physics in the areas of nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and bioengineering.

The graduate curriculum is rigorous, but professors are accessible to students. The department emphasizes the importance of research, and students collaborate closely with faculty on their projects.

Sponsors of Research Projects

Research in the ECE department is sponsored by NSF, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Northrup Grumman Corp., Raytheon Systems, ArkLight, Inc., and other corporations.

Affiliated Lehigh Research Centers, Laboratories and Institutes
Center for Advance Materials and Nanotechnology
Center for Optical Technologies
Sherman Fairchild Center for Solid State Studies

For more information or to obtain an application, contact:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lehigh University
19 Memorial Drive West
Bethlehem, PA 18015-3084
Phone: (610) 758-4072
Fax: (610) 758-6279
E-mail: graduate-coordinator@eecs.lehigh.edu