Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering encourages the development of technology serving humanity through innovation in areas from voice recognition to accessibility. If this philosophy inspires you, then our department might be your new home.

We conduct cutting-edge research in our labs, such as the Biomedical Signal Analysis Laboratory. This lab leads in the research and development of biometric devices to recognize fingerprint, face, iris, voice and handprint signatures.

Our low student-to-faculty ratio allows our professors to get to know you as an individual while you engage in important, world-class research. This unique quality of interaction between faculty and students is the hallmark of a Clarkson educational experience.

As part of Clarkson’s Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, our department is emblematic of the University’s team-based, interdisciplinary approach to learning.

Our Programs

Undergraduate Programs

Graduate Programs

Electrical and Computer Engineering, (MS) Potsdam Campus, Online
Power Engineering Concentration | Electrical & Computer Engineering, (MS) Potsdam Campus, Online
Electrical and Computer Engineering, (PhD) Potsdam Campus
Power Systems Engineering (Advanced Certificate)

96% University Placement Total

Top 20

Best Values

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as reported by U.S. News & World Report, America's Best Colleges

91�ȱ� students are highly sought after and our placement rates prove it. During the academic year, we have 150+ Career Fair attendees each Spring, 180+ Career Fair Attendees every fall! The Parker Career Center encourages students to connect as early as possible to begin setting yourself up for success.

16%

of students decide to continue their education in various post secondary programs.

2%

of our graduates seek alternative positions like the military.

Pioneering Innovations in Energy, Intelligence, and Health

Explore how ECE faculty and researchers at Clarkson are solving critical real-world challenges—from modernizing the power grid to advancing AI-driven wearable sensors and biometric systems.

Center for Electric Power System Research (CEPSR)

Advances grid reliability, clean energy integration, and smart power infrastructure. Working closely with industry partners, CEPSR focuses on decarbonization, transportation electrification, and workforce training for the next-generation energy sector.

Explore CEPSR

AI Vision, Health, Biometrics, and Applied Computing Lab (AVHBAC)

Investigates the synergy of wearable microsensors, computer vision, and embedded AI. The lab designs innovative solutions for health monitoring, prosthetics, rehabilitation, and biometric systems by running deep learning algorithms directly on mobile and embedded hardware.

NSF-funded tool helps chips run faster, cooler and longer

The story highlights our work on developing scalable simulation techniques for GPUs and AI chips. By enforcing physical principles in reduced-order learning methods, our approach enables fast and accurate chip-level thermal analysis for next-generation superchips with more than 100,000 cores, helping improve the performance, reliability, and energy efficiency of future computing systems.

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