The Department offers undergraduate programmes in Computer Engineering, Electronic and Communication Engineering, Information Engineering, and Electronic Engineering (Communication Engineering/ Information Engineering). After being admitted to the first three programmes, students may choose to take an integrated Business Intelligence Minor. An integrated law minor is also available to the Information Engineering programme. At the postgraduate level, the Department offers taught master programmes in Electronic and Information Engineering, and Multimedia Information Technology, as well as research degree studies. Students may choose to take the Business Management option after enrolling in the parent taught master programmes. The Department places great emphasis on quality and innovative teaching as well as co-curricula activities that enrich the learning experience.
The Department boasts 11 chair professors, 5 professors, 27 associate professors, 10 assistant professors, 3 lecturers and 2 instructors. Staff members have received numerous prestigious prizes and awards. Currently the Department has six Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA (IEEE); seven Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK (IET); one Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and three Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellows. The Department has built up its strengths in (1) Applied Electromagnetics and Wireless Communications, (2) Control Systems and Power Electronics, (3) Optoelectronics and Solid State Devices, (4) Information Engineering, and (5) Computer Engineering. Three Research Centres have been established in Chaos and Complex Networks, Wireless Communications, and Power Electronics, in addition to one Applied Strategic Development Centre in Electronic Packaging and Assemblies, Failure Analysis and Reliability Engineering.
The Department’s academic faculty has commercialised many ground-breaking technologies, such as Access Control and Smartcard Systems; Base Station Antennas for 2G and 3G Mobile Communication Systems; Compact Antennas for Duplex Global Positioning Systems (GPS); Dimming Control for Electronic Ballast; the Millimeter-wave Receiving Technology, and TeleEye, among others. TeleEye produces a remote monitoring system developed in the Department. It is the first publicly-listed company in Hong Kong to originate from a university research group.
Personnel with training in high technology are highly sought after in different sector. Apart from the manufacturing and technology sectors, other economic sectors such as finance and banking, insurance, logistics, entertainment, etc. are in need of technology as an enabler of business operators and transformation.