Our main educational tasks are Electronics and Informatics - ranging from circuits, device modeling, fabrication technology, computer aided design, optimization of complex systems up to programming concepts, computer architectures and communication. Electronics and Informatics being important enabling technologies for the Information Society, ETRO also covers selected fields in Information Processing, like digital signal/speech processing, pattern recognition, image and video processing.

In R&D, four laboratories are covering a wide range of generic technologies in Micro- and Optoelectronics (LAMI), Speech & Audio Processing (DSSP), Image Processing & Machine Vision (IRIS), Digital Telecommunications and Parallel & Distributed Processing (TELE), which cannot be dealt with separately when the real world applications of the Information Society are envisaged. The collaboration between the four participating research groups leads to integrated transdisciplinary R&D, e.g. in speech/audio and image/video processing in the context of multimedia research, in the exploitation of new opto-electronic devices for applications of ambient intelligence, and in joint channel-source coding.