With expert faculty, cutting-edge research, and innovative facilities, electrical engineering master's students at Tufts have the opportunity and resources to make significant contributions to the field and become leaders in industry, government, and academia.

Program Highlights

With vibrant research exploring fields from power-aware computing, nano- and opto-electronics, and photonics to information theory, machine learning, and robotics and control systems, there is something for everyone in our electrical engineering program.

Our students and faculty members work with colleagues in the School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences‚ and collaborate across departments in the School of Engineering, focusing on strategic research areas such as human health and bioengineering, intelligent systems, and the interactions between technology and people.

Earn your master's in electrical engineering with a focus on any of these research areas:

Control, energy systems, and robotics
Electro-optical materials and renewable energy
Integrated circuits and VLSI
Microfabrication, nanotechnology, and sensors
Networks and information theory
Signal and image

Career Outcomes

Tufts electrical engineers go on to great things. Some are entrepreneurs, founding or working at start-ups. Others are pursuing careers at some of the world's leading technology companies, like Google, Amazon Robotics, Fitbit, Nest, and Intel, or have used their engineering education in different industries altogether, going to work for Fidelity Investments and the New York Stock Exchange.

The master's program in electrical engineering also prepares students for doctoral study within the electrical and computer engineering program.

Application Requirements

Applicants to the master's program in electrical engineering are expected to have a degree at the level of bachelor's or master's in electrical or computer engineering, or a related discipline such as computer science, physics, or mathematics.

Application Fee
Resume/CV
Personal Statement
Transcripts
Three letters of Recommendation
Official GRE scores
- GRE General Test scores not required for applicants who will have received a degree from a U.S. institution by time of enrollment. GRE scores required for all other applicants.
Official TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo test scores if applicable

Tuition and Financial Aid

We recognize that attending graduate school involves a significant financial investment. Our team is here to answer your questions about tuition rates and scholarship opportunities.

Please contact us at gradadmissions@tufts.edu.

Faculty

Thomas Vandervelde

Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Interaction of light with matter, physics of nanostructures and interfaces, metamaterials, material science, plasmonics, and surfactants, semiconductor photonics and electronics, epitaxial crystal growth, materials and devices for energy and infrared applications.

Shuchin Aeron

Associate Professor

data science, statistical signal processing, inverse problems, compressed sensing, information theory, convex optimization, machine learning, algorithms for geophysical signal processing, compressed sensing architectures and evaluation, video and image data acquisition and processing

Mohammed Afsar

Professor

Precision microwave, millimeter, terahertz, and submillimeter wave, far-infrared, and infrared wave measurement techniques and instrumentation; millimeter and submillimeter wave sources, detectors, and systems; solid, liquid, and gaseous state physics, spectroscopy, material characterization and studies, complex dielectric permittivity, and complex magnetic permeability measurements of dielectric and magnetic materials; and theoretical studies of polymeric, glassy, amorphous, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown materials, ceramic, and semiconductor materials, thin films, liquids and fluids, electronic, biological, and magnetic materials.

Steven Bell

Assistant Teaching Professor

Engineering education, embedded systems, camera systems and computational photography

Chorng Chang

Associate Professor

Computer architecture, parallel processing, computer networking, hardware description languages, simulation and programmable logic design, engineering education.

Dante DeMeo

Research Assistant Professor

thermophotovoltaics, optoelectronics, energy harvesting, nanofabrication

Kevin Grossklaus

Research Assistant Professor

Electronic Materials; Semiconductor Materials; Semiconductor Devices; Materials Characterization; Thin-film Deposition; Optical Properties Electronic Materials; Photonic Materials; Nanofabrication; Electron Microscopy

Mark Hempstead

Associate Professor

computer architecture, computer systems, power-aware computing, embedded systems, mobile computing, computer systems for machine learning, workload characterization, quantum computing, learning sciences and computer systems for human subjects research

Jeffrey Hopwood

Professor

microwave circuit design for microplasma generation, microplasma-based environmental sensors and other microsystem applications, plasma diagnostic methods, characterization, and modeling

Usman Khan

Professor

Optimization and Control, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, Decentralized Algorithms

Valencia Koomson

Associate Professor

design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging

Ronald Lasser

Professor of the Practice

digital image processing, computer animation, swarm robotics, innovation, engineering method & design

Eric Miller

Professor

Signal and image processing, tomographic image formation and object characterization, inverse problems, regularization, statistical signal and imaging processing, and computational physical modeling. Applications explored include medical imaging and image analysis, environmental monitoring and remediation, landmine and unexploded ordnance remediation, and automatic target detection and classification.

Academic Leave

Aseema Mohanty

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

nanophotonics, optical beam shaping, neuroengineering, chip-scale imaging and microscopy, quantum information systems Research Website: https://sites.tufts.edu/amohanty/

Karen Panetta

Professor and Dean of Graduate Education

Signal processing; image processing; simulation modeling

Sameer Sonkusale

Professor

Flexible bioelectronics, Biomedical microdevices, Biomedical circuits and systems, micro and nano fabrication, lab-on-chip microsystems, global health and precision medicine, CMOS image sensors for scientific imaging, analog to information converters, active metamaterial devices, circuits, and systems, terahertz devices and circuits

Aleksandar Stankovic

Alvin H. Howell Endowed Professor in Electrical Engineering

modeling, control, and estimation in electric energy processing, power electronics, power systems, and electric drives

Academic Leave

Mai Vu

Professor

wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, 5G/6G systems and techniques, energy-efficient communications, machine learning techniques, applied convex optimization