Support
YOU Can Make a Difference!
Support from EECS Friends and Partners ensures we continue to provide the highest quality computer science and engineering plus electrical engineering education. Your support has a clear implication for the State of Florida, the Southeast region’s economic growth and dramatically impacts national and international solutions in Energy, Space/NASA, Robotics, Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, Entertainment (Video games/Film/Digital Media), Power, Networks, and so much more.
Invest
Why Invest in EECS?
- The School of EECS’ programs are becoming a state and national resource for industry.
- EECS has two ranked programs by U.S. News and World Report. In the 2008 graduate program ranking, EE was ranked at 68 and CpE ranked at 67.
- EECS at UCF the second largest combined EECS academic unit in the United States, after Georgia Tech, with more than 2,300 students in its four academic programs.
- An incredible record on the International and National levels of the undergraduate ACM World Programming Contest.
- Competitive research grants awarded by industry partners as well as NSF and many other federal agencies.
- World-renown senior faculty and super-star junior faculty.
- Support from industry partners, such as Harris Corp., Walt Disney World, Inc., Lockheed Martin, and many others. Our existing partners believe in the EECS mission, as evident in their hiring of EECS students, sending employees to EECS for education, and through tremendous investments made for in the growth and future of EECS.
- Partners become involved in EECS students and faculty and have access to the brilliant minds of EECS at many degree levels and to our faculty. For example, a remarkable 38 doctoral degrees were conferred in Academic Year ’06-’07 most of whom went to industry where they are making a huge impact on industry and research.
The Impact
Your Support Can...
- Help EECS achieve international prominence in strategic research areas of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering.
- Attract additional international leadership in EECS education and research.
- Further existing strength in helping develop and advance Florida’s and the United States’ High-Tech economy.
- Play a role in exciting future developments in energy, the future of computing and engineering, power management, robotics and so much more.
Your support through foundation donations, naming opportunities, endowed chair positions, scholarships or support of our facilities/equipment can help EECS achieve the following milestones.
EECS Vision
To be among the premier Schools of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and be ranked among the top 50 programs by 2015
While EECS has accomplished exciting things in the ranking over the past four years, there is always more that can be done to push the vision of excellence higher. EECS administration is driving its faculty to think outside the box and work smarter to help the School move higher than the top 50 and be ranked in the top 25 instead. Financial partnerships with EECS in the form of Endowments or other gifts will give the School a competitive edge in its research and academic programs.
EECS Mission
The mission of the School of EECS is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to become highly skilled in the principles and practices of computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering and information technology and to develop graduates that meet today’s market needs. EECS is focused on providing an opportunity for students at all levels to conduct scientific research in high tech and state-of-the-art research topics.
EECS Objectives
- Achieve international prominence in strategic research areas of computer science, computer engineering, information technology and electrical engineering
- Achieve international leadership in EECS education
- Achieve success in helping to develop and advance the high-tech economy nationally and in Florida
Harris Center
Harris Corporation Engineering Center
To support the rapidly growing School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Central Florida dedicated the newly constructed Harris Corporation Engineering Center in January 2007.
The new four-story, 100,000 square foot building serves as the home of the School of EECS and its four academic programs: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. The remarkable building is the crowning facility of UCF’s engineering and computer science complex.
Harris Center is located adjacent to the College of Optics and Photonics and Engineering I and II. Together with EECS in the new Harris Center, these facilities create a technology center on campus. The Harris Center contains educational and research laboratories, offices for both faculty and support personnel, collaborative space for research projects, support space for student advising, seminar and classrooms. It allows the school to upgrade student support services, research and teaching laboratories, as well as facilitate faculty and student interaction and advanced research.
There are still tremendous opportunities to support EECS and its remarkable new home through naming opportunities, scholarships and donations.
Our Research
The research conducted in the Harris Center and within the School of EECS is strongly rooted in technologies and applications that are cutting-edge in the global marketplace.
The research areas include those targeted by the University of Central Florida and other organizations as top priority for new development. Our existing strength in these high-tech areas has earned the School of EECS international prominence and exposure in many areas, including:
- Energy and Renewable Sources
- Gaming and Virtual Reality
- Computer Vision and Graphics
- Simulation and Modeling
- Digital Media
- Entertainment and Film Computing & Engineering
- Computer Networks
- Advanced Wireless Communications
- Software Engineering
- Telecommunications
- Microwaves
- Power Electronics Controls
- Computer Systems and VLSI
- DSP
- Databases
- Entertainment Engineering