The department consists of 26 full-time and 32 adjunct faculty. The faculty's research programs are supported by grants from industry and government agencies with new grants totaling more than $3.2M in FY96. The BS, MS, and PhD degree programs in the department have approximately 750 undergraduate and 210 graduate students. The UMBC campus has 10,400 students and is located in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, providing easy access to both metropolitan areas and to numerous federal agencies, industrial research centers and consulting firms.
The department is located in a new (1993) Engineering and Computer Science building which has excellent computing and laboratory environments, including an ATM testbed for research on high speed networking and multimedia communications. In addition the department has semiconductor processing and photonic research laboratories in the Technology Research Center. The department's computing facilities include Sun and Silicon Graphics workstations, SGI Crimson and SPARC servers, and high performance graphics workstations. The University Computing Services has over 400 workstations for general student use and several high-end machines, including 2 Silicon Graphics Challenge XL 20-processor systems and a Cray Y-MP EL. The university's Imaging Research Center also provides high-end graphics support, including production quality input/output devices and production software.
Applications, including CV, should be sent to: Faculty Search Committee, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 (phone: 410-455-3500 fax: -3969). Applicants should arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to the same address. For full consideration, complete applications should be received by March 1, 1997.
Further information about UMBC and the CSEE Department can be obtained through the WWW server http://www.cs.umbc.edu/. UMBC is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.