Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering
Research Activities
Research is an important mission of the department; it plays a crucial role in enriching the intellectual experience of students, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Students work closely with faculty on frontier research projects. Research results have attracted funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and a variety of local and national industries.
The current areas of specialization in the department include
- Acoustics and underwater acoustics
- Biomedical engineering
- Computer engineering and VLSI
- Communication theory
- Digital signal processing
- Electrical and optical properties of materials
- Electromagnetic fields and optical communication
- Systems theory
Below is a list of some of the research projects in the department. Included with some of these descriptions are lists of the courses specialized to each area, and the faculty involved in each area.
Electrical Engineering:
- VLSI and electronics
- The Fish and Chips Project
- The High-Resolution Data Converters Project
- Signal processing and system theory
- Laboratory for Electronic Testing
- Analog 0.5 Micron Library
- Experiential (Digital) Signal Processing Laboratory
Computer Engineering:
- The High Performance Computing Laboratory
- Microarchitecture Research Institute
- Network Security and Trust Laboratory
- The Disk Caching Disk (DCD) Project
- The Caching Address Tags (CAT) Project
- The Levo High ILP Prototype Computer Project
- Realizing order of magnitude Instruction Level Parallelism - The Active Nodal Task Seeking (ANTS) project
- VLSI Fault Injection using Nanotechnology
Biomedical Engineering:
Other topics related to our research effort:
- Doctoral dissertations from the department
- Masters theses from the department
