The department has a number of widely recognized research strengths including:
- Power and power electronics
- Optics and photonics
- Signal and imaging processing
- Nanotechnology
Department research work is supported by a number of national agencies including:
- National Science Foundation
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- US Air Force
- US Navy
In addition, the department enjoys research support from a number of national and local industries.
Research Laboratories
- Control Systems Laboratory
- Electromagnetic Communication and Sensing Laboratory
- Laboratory for Image, Signal Processing and Digital Communications
- Medical Imaging and Instrumentation Laboratory
- Optical Device Modeling Laboratory
- Power Systems Laboratory
- Signal Processing and Implementation Laboratory
- Wireless Information Transmission Electronics Laboratory (WITEL)