Posted November 16, 2012 Atlanta, GA
The longtime partnership between the School of Electrical and Computer Engineeering (ECE) at Georgia Tech and Agilent Technologies is celebrated in a video that made its debut at the Agilent Lab Dedication, held on October 19 in the Technology Square Research Building. View the video here.
Since its establishment in 1999, Agilent has supported ECE through consortia memberships with the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) and the Georgia Tech Analog Consortium, funded individual faculty research projects in microsystems and electronic design and applications, and within the last five years, its unprecedented in-kind gifts of software, support, and training to GEDC totaling almost $54.3 million–making it the largest gift ever to Georgia Tech.
About the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is one of eight schools and departments in the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. All ECE undergraduate and graduate programs are in the top 10 of the most recent college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Over 2,500 students are enrolled in the School’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and in the last academic year, 723 degrees were awarded.
Over 110 ECE faculty members are involved in 11 areas of research, education, and commercialization – bioengineering, computer systems and software, digital signal processing, electric power, electromagnetics, electronic design and applications, microsystems, optics and photonics, systems and controls, telecommunications, and VLSI systems and digital design.
About the Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the world's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities and the eighth best engineering and information technology university in the world by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, Georgia Tech’s more than 20,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Business, and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and minority engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
