ECE at Yale University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ECE coursework.

• CPSC 3230Introduction to Systems Programming and Computer Organizationopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ECE 3481Digital Systemsopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ECE work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 8 ECE and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 47 more ECE courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ECE. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECE 4201

  1. CPSC 2230Data Structures and Programming Techniques
  2. CPSC 3230Introduction to Systems Programming and Computer Organization
  3. ECE 4201Computer Architecture

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECE 4811

  1. ECE 2011Introduction to Computer Engineering
  2. ECE 3481Digital Systems
  3. ECE 4811Advanced ABET Projects

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on ECE sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• A. Natarajan
• B. Landa
• D. Kalogerias
• Duncan
• F. Xia
• J. Han
• L. Hu
• L. Song
• M. Liu
• Manohar
• R. Kuc
• R. Manohar
• S. Zucker
• Staib
• T. Boroushaki
• Xia

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECE yet.

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Department events

ECE does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Yale campus feed.