ECE Technical Interest Groups
- 1. Technical Interest Groups in Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE's faculty is organized into 11 technical interest groups (TIGs) that collectively represent the major research thrusts of the School. These areas are highly interrelated, and many faculty members engage in research that spans multiple TIGs. Following is a brief description of each TIG, with a bulleted list of their major areas of research. Also indicated is the academic major (EE/CmpE) that is typically associated with each TIG; however, both EE and CmpE majors may take elective courses from any technical area if they have the appropriate prerequisites. Technical Interest Group Research Areas Bioengineering: Bioengineering is concerned with the Biosensors/BioMEMS application of engineering principles to the study and control Neuroengineering of biological processes. In this area, mathematical and Medical imaging and signal processing physical concepts are developed which are applied to medicine and biology. Major: EE Computer Systems and Software: The Computer Systems Computer architecture System software and Software group carries out activities that span from high Multi-core systems Large-scale simulation performance microarchitecture to integrated Embedded systems Dependable computing hardware/software systems to large-scale distributed Computer networks and internetworking Computer system and network security software and internetworks. Computer systems and software Distributed systems Software analysis activities focus on the optimization of cross cutting characteristics, such as power/energy consumption and security, within application domains such as health, high performance computing, and embedded real-time systems. Major: CmpE Digital Signal Processing: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is DSP theory Radar and array processing concerned with the representation of signals in digital form, Image and video signal processing Speech and audio processing and with the transformation of such signal representations Multimedia signal processing and Statistical signal processing using digital computation. networking Hardware/software systems for signal Signal processing for communications and processing Major: EE or CmpE security Electrical Energy: Electrical Energy is primarily concerned Power system monitoring, analysis High voltage engineering and power with meeting the future demand for electric energy while protection, operation and control system components satisfying environmental constraints. Distributed generation Electric machine control, condition and Power system simulation and visualization monitoring and protection Major: EE Power electronics 1
- 2. Technical Interest Group Research Areas Electromagnetics: Electromagnetics involves the study of Microwave circuits Computational techniques for Maxwell’s equations and their application to the analysis and Remote sensing of obscured targets electromagnetics design of devices and systems. Radioscience, plantary remote sensing, and Signal integrity in digital and mixed signal space communications systems Major: EE Analysis and design of antennas Terrestrial radio wave propagation Electronic Design and Applications: Electronic Design and Mems circuit technology High speed mixed signal Applications involves device and integrated circuit Analog vlsi Analog fabrication, circuit and system design and simulation, and Radio frequency/wireless integrated circuits instrumentation and testing techniques. (RFIC) Major: EE Microelectronics/Microsystems: Microelectronics is Microsystems and nanosystems Manufacturing and gigascale integration concerned with the design, analysis, growth, and fabrication Photovoltaics Compound semiconductors of micron/sub-micron feature length devices. Microelectronics systems packaging Biomedical microsystems Major: EE Optics and Photonics: Optics and Photonics involves the Optical communication networks Photonics and optoelectronics study of lasers, optics, and holography. Nonlinear optics Diffractive and holographic optics Major: EE Systems and Controls: Systems and Controls is concerned Mathematical systems theory Intelligent control with mathematical and computational techniques for Discrete event systems and hybrid system Sensor technologies modeling, estimation, and control of systems and processes. Nonlinear control Robotics Major: EE or CmpE Computer vision Telecommunications: Telecommunications is concerned Wireless communications and networking Inter-networking, network management, with the characterization, representation, transmission, Communication theory and network security storage, and networking of information over various media Information theory and adaptive systems Optical networks including space, optical fiber, and cable. Multimedia networking Major: EE or CmpE VLSI Systems and Digital Design: The VLSI Systems and Design of ultra-low power circuits and Low power/high-speed interconnect and Digital Design technical interest group carries out activities systems design automation for physical design involved with designing and testing complex digital and Embedded systems and hardware-software Data acquisition systems for vision/sensing mixed-signal electronic systems. These techniques optimize co design applications power, performance, and reliability metrics across a wide Microarchitecture and memory design for Self-tuning/self-calibrating circuits for range of applications. performance, power, and reliability wired and wireless communications Design and test of Systems on Chips (SOCs) Design of nanotechnology and other and Systems in Packages (SiPs) emerging computational fabrics Major: EE or CmpE VLSI testing and fault tolerant computing 2