ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nanoprobing: making the smallest things visible
Yong Xu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, is developing an active nanoprobe technology that could enable significant breakthroughs in optics, physics, and commu­nications.

Tree of Trust: protecting embedded systems
While hackers and viruses grab headlines in computing security, Patrick Schaumont’s team is working to protect data from a newer, growing threat—a threat from the loss and theft of embedded computers that store personal and private information.

Tackling the mystery: the Mono virus
Many people know infectious mononucleosis (mono) as the disease of fevers, sore throats, and fatigue that can rob students of entire semesters. Medical researchers know mono as the disease caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-one of the oldest, most common human viruses.

High Power Engineering:
Is an energy router in your future?
Imagine a device that automatically detects demand for power and delivers processed electricity in the required form (AC or DC) at the correct voltage and frequency. Energy routers, analogous to the familiar data and communications routers, could improve reliability, efficiency, and safety at every level of the electrical power system.

Renaissance man of the acoustic waveform
Combining Electrical Engineering with a passion for music, David Gagnon seeks to study the acoustics of concert halls and the sound waves of music.

Matt Carson '98: life in the nascar fast lane
It takes more than an expert driver like Tony Stewart and a fast Chevrolet Monte Carlo to win a NASCAR race. Another type of race is run in the shop, where designers, machinists, and —yes, engineers—work against the clock and competitors to design, build, test, and install new parts.

Biomedical Applications

• Understanding ovarian cancer drug resistance
• The key risk factors in cardiovascular disease monitors
• Windows to the brain
• Applying system identification to biology

Computer Systems

• FPGAs can finally adapt without external control
• Wires on Demand: Aiding the use of FPGAs in SDR
• ECE joins new NSF center for reconfigurable computing
• e-Rug

Networking

• Wireless sensor nets vulnerable to denial-of-sleep
• 1st-ever ad hoc networking contest set
• Battery-sensing intrusion system for mobile computers
• Airborne Networks

Software & Machine Intelligence

• Hydro-informatics for floods, droughts
• Finding Faces at any Angle
• Your ears can give you away

VLSI & Design Automation

• All-digital monitor for structural health
• Applying CPE skills to protect children's privacy
• Nano electronics bring mega design challenges

Communications

• Adapting UWB wireless to mine safety
• Low-power satellite/sensor system can operate with randomly located packages
• Securing SDR devices from hackers, opponenets

ElectroMagnetics

• AIM satellite to study noctilucent clouds
• Mapping the systems driven by solar winds
• ETA telescope coming near Tech
• Measuring an ozone destroyer
• High-res, 3D imaging for asphalt aggregates
• Sapphire temperature sensor stands up to harsh environment

Electronics

• Semiconductor Processing Lab Dedicated
• A "black box" system of modeling
• Testbed developed for self-sustained, zero-emissions power system
• Mapping power electronics development

Power Engineering

• Improving California's power system
• Device characterization
• Designing the distribution system of the future
• PMUs go global

Systems & Control

• No-cable elevator uses VT switched reluctance motor drive technology
• Mini, high-speed AUV exceeds 15 knots
• Anti-jitter technology for better rifle aim