Clay Gloster, Jr. is currently a member of the faculty in the department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Howard University. He is leading the effort to begin a new undergraduate program leading to the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering . This program was APPROVED by the Howard University Board of Trustees (January 2002). A sample curriculum is available by clicking here. He is also planning to establish the Center for Embedded Systems Research at Howard University.

He served on the faculty at NC State University for more than 7 years where he was involved in research in the High Performance Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, the Electronic Research Laboratory, and the Center for Advanced Computing and Communication. He also spent two summers working at NASA GSFC. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (Greensboro, NC) and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (Raleigh NC). He also has been employed with IBM, the Department of Defense, and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.