The Department of Electrical and Information Engineering(DEI) is the University's reference facility in the cultural areas of energy, Artificial Intelligence, sustainable development, Information and Communication Technologies, automation, robotics, and bioengineering.

The DEI department promotes, coordinates, and manages fundamental and applied research activities, training, technology transfer, and services to the local community in the fields of automation, computer science, electronics, electromagnetic fields, telecommunications, electronic and computer bioengineering, electrical and electronic measurements, electrical engineering and circuit theory, electrical machines and drives, electrical energy systems, and numerical analysis. The department's activities in these areas are wide-ranging and complex, as evidenced by its extensive range of courses and its extensive and high-quality output of scientific publications and applied research projects. The department offers PhD programs in Electrical and Information Engineering, Smart and Sustainable Industry, and Autonomous Systems.

The DEI department operates in Bari and Taranto, where it contributed to the creation of the interdepartmental center "Magna Grecia," now called TTEC.