Undergraduate and graduate programs focus on all aspects of computer design as well as software construction and applications.

Electrical Engineering- Offers degrees in electrical engineering covering core technology topics in areas such as biomedical engineering, communications and information technology, control systems, digital signal processing, and computer vision, lasers, optoelectronics, electromagnetic theory and microwave electronics, circuit and VLSI design.

Programs focus on the study, design, and management of the technology-rich systems that drive today's information-intensive organizations.

Programs focus on planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and managing the nation’s physical infrastructure such as buildings, bridges, power plants, water and wastewater systems while also focused on conservation, natural resource recovery, air quality and pollution control, and environmental health.

Today, students are subjected to digitally-recorded instruction in all graduate engineering degree programs.

City of Knowledge (Panama)- The Lyle School of Engineering and the City of Knowledge have initiated an executive master's degree program that enables participants to acquire a master's degree from SMU with the convenience of a Central American location.

Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala)- The Lyle School of Engineering has signed an agreement with the School of Business and Economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City that will enable business students from Guatemala to spend a semester taking engineering courses in Dallas The percentage of women in engineering at SMU Lyle is 50% higher than the national average.