Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
LK Downing Hall, Room 3014
Howard University
College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences (CEACS)
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
2300 Sixth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059
Office:  (202) 806-6628
Fax:      (202) 806-5258
Email:    cgloster@howard.edu

Clay Gloster, Jr. is currently a member of the highly esteemed faculty in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Howard University.  Among his accomplishments while serving the Howard University community is the establishment of the undergraduate program leading to the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering. He served as a leading advocate for its creation.  In May 2007 Howard University bestowed its first degrees to graduates of this program.   
 
He served on the faculty at NC State University for more than 7 years where he was involved in research in High Performance Digital Signal Processing. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He also has been employed with IBM, the Department of Defense, and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.  He spent several summers working at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Naval Surface Warfare Center. 

EDUCATION  
Ph.D., Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1993  
M.S., Electrical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, 1988  
B.S., Electrical Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, 1985

RESEARCH AREAS 

Reconfigurable Computing

High Performance Computing,

System Modeling with VHDL/Verilog