Established in 1983, the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Electrical and Computer Engineering (OCIECE) combines the research strengths of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Ottawa and the departments of Electronics and of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University.

The Institute offers graduate programs leading to the degrees of Master of Applied Science (MASc), Master of Engineering (MEng) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The Institute is one of the participating units in the collaborative program in Science, Society and Policy.

The main areas of research are Computer communications, multimedia and distributed systems, Computer-aided design for electronic circuit, Computer and software engineering, Digital and wireless communications, Microwave and electromagnetics, Signal, speech and image processing, Integrated circuits and devices, Systems and machine intelligence, Photonics systems, and Biomedical engineering.