Electrical Engineering & Computer Science   Tags: computer_science, electrical_engineering, engineering  

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The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Samueli School of Engineering at UCI has broad and deep interests in a diverse range of subject areas ranging from computer systems, distributed computing, computer networks, control, electronics, photonics, digital systems, circuits, communications, signal processing, semiconductor devices.  Interests in the study of electronic devices and circuitry and power electronics and the generation, transmission, and utilization of electrical energy are well represented.  Research concentrations exist in computer graphics and visualization, software with special interests in machine vision, digital image processing, pervasive computing, embedded systems, programming, digital logic, date management, micro-sensors, electronics packaging, electromagnetics and related topics.

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