History
Here is a timeline of some of the important dates and events related to the ECE Department. These and other facts can be found in the book A History of the Deaprtment of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
| 1849 March 3 | Minnesota Territory created |
| 1851 February 25 | University of Minnesota chartered |
| 1858 May 11 | Minnesota Statehood |
| 1888 | First offering of an electrical engineering course at the University of Minnesota |
| 1891 | EE Department formally established |
| 1913 | First University of Minnesota Electrical Party |
| 1924 | Construction completed on the state-of-the-art Electrical Engineering Building which would serve as the Department's home for the next 64 years |
| 1948 | Earl Bakken, the inventor of the first battery-powered cardiac pacemaker and founder of Medtronic, Inc., graduates from the EE Department with his B.E.E. |
| 1949 | Seymour Cray, the inventor of the supercomputer, graduates from the EE Department with his B.E.E. |
| 1985 October 1 | Ground-breaking ceremony for the new EECS Building |
| 1988 | Construction completed and new EECS Building occupied |
| 1997 | Department of Electrical Engineering is renamed to Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |