EECS (sometimes pronounced "eeks") is an abbreviation for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. It is a designation used at some universities including MIT, UC Berkeley, Harvard, MSOE, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing 34 academic departments and 53 interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programs. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) is a private university located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, U.S.. Northwesterns main campus is a 240-acre (970,000 m²) parcel in Evanston, along the shore of Lake Michigan. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...

One reason behind linking the two areas of study is to provide students with a broad overview of both software and hardware. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology. ...

Not every university uses the EECS designation. Stanford and the University of Washington, for example, have separate EE and CS departments/majors. Other schools, such as the UC Davis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Georgia Tech, Purdue University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Cornell University, and University of Texas at Austin use the similar ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) designation. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has an ECSE (Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering) department and a CS department. Stanford redirects here. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... The University of California, Davis, commonly abbreviated to UC Davis or UCD is one of the ten University of California campuses. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ... Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is located in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. With over 16,000 students, Georgia Tech is one of four public research universities in the University System of Georgia. ... Purdue University is a public land-grant university whose primary campus is located in West Lafayette, Indiana on the bluffs above the Wabash River. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Cornell redirects here. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship[3][4][5][6][7] institution of the University of Texas System. ... Electrical and Computer Engineering is a major at many institutes of higher education. ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a coeducational private university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer. ...

However, International University Bremen is quite unique in ths respect. Not only does it offer a rigorous EECS program, it also offers separate ECE and CS programs. International University Bremen (IUB) is an independent research university in Bremen, Germany. ... ECE is an acronym and could mean one of several things: Electrical and Computer Engineering Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations Early childhood education ECE-R24, a method for measuring horsepower endothelin-converting enzyme External combustion engine Electron-Cloud Effect This page disambiguates a three-character combination which might be... CS, Cs or cs may stand for: a letter in the Hungarian alphabet Cable select, an IDE device setting Caesarean section, a form of childbirth Caesium, the chemical element (Cs) Conditioned Stimulus (see Classical conditioning) CaraÅŸ-Severin county (Romania) indicative Occasionally used to abbreviate Cash Shop in the game MapleStory...

See also

• Academic major

EECS is a department at the University of Central Florida. An academic major is a mainly U.S. term for a university students main field of specialisation during his or her bachelors degree studies. ...