2009 Open House
Welcome to Engineering!
We believe that visiting campus is one of the best ways for you to get a complete picture of the educational programs we offer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. We invite you and your family to spend some time with us at NC State during the 2009 College of Engineering Open House. Prospective students and their parents are particularly encouraged to come and learn more about engineering at NC State.
On March 14, 2009 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, our faculty, staff, and students have arranged an array of presentations and demonstrations that will show you the great variety of things you can do with a degree in electrical or computer engineering. Many of our labs will open their facilities to show you research that's going on in the department right now.
Additionally, a number of our fellow engineering departments will be opening their doors to visitors too. We encourage you to stop by and pay them a visit as well to get a better feeling for the overall academic diversity offered at NC State.
Reception
The ECE Department will be hosting a free reception during the Engineering Open House for all visitors to the department. The reception will be held in the west atrium of Engineering Building II on Centennial Campus. Our faculty and students will greet you there, where you can get a departmental brochure, grab a guide to our labs and displays, and fill up on complimentary refreshments.
The Advanced Transportation Energy Center will be displaying their plug-in electric vehicles in the gateway arch between the west and east atriums. These hybrids demonstrate the potential future of managed electric vehicles!
Also in the reception area:
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Underwater Robotics Club: Check out SeaWolf II, our autonomous competition robot. |  |
ATEC Hybrids: ATEC is committed to developing the fundamental technologies that will allow the power industry to actively manage large amounts of plug-in hybrid vehicles. |
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EKG Demonstration: See and learn how electrocardiograms work. |  |
Student Organizations: Representatives of the ECE student organizations will be on hand to greet you. |
ECE Overview Slideshow
There will also be a slideshow giving an overview of the ECE department playing in EB II Room 1021 from 9 to 12:30 at regular 30 minute intervals, so please stop by and get a feel for the department as a whole.
Demonstrations
Presented by Professor Michael Steer
Learn about the fundamentals and uses of acoustic beams.
Location: EB II Breezeway
Presented by Professor Rhett Davis
Highlights of activities in the Solid-Sate Circuits area.
Location: 3rd Floor glassed-in area
Presented by Professors Wenye Wang and Do Young Eun
A demonstration of wireless computer networking concepts and devices. Wireless motes, ZigBee, XBee, Sunspot. http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/netwis/
Location: 2nd Floor glassed-in area
Presented by Professor Michael Escuti
Learn about the theory behind nano-projectors.
Location: 3rd Floor glassed-in area
Presented by Professor Rhett Davis
A demonstration of a digital, field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) design of edge-detection for streaming video, showing the difference in speed between hardware and software approaches.
Location; EB II 2nd Floor glassed-in area
Open Labs
Presenters: Professor Mo-Yuen Chow and graduate assistant Rachana Gupta
Presenters: Professor Gianluca Lazzi
Presenters: Steve Callender and Professor Troy Nagle and
Presenter: Professors William Edmonson and Winser Alexander
Location: Room 3037 EB II
Presenter: Professor Huaiyu Dai
Presenter: Professor Hamid Krim
Location: Room 3038 EB II
Research Group Presentations
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Technology Development for Green Energy Based Transportation Systems (ATEC) Professors S. Battacharya Location: EB II Atrium |
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Center for Efficient, Scalable, and Reliable Computing (CESR) Professor Xun Liu Location: EB II 1st Floor, Middle Open Area |
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Center of Robotics and Intelligent Machines (CRIM) Professor Eddie Grant and graduate students Location: Room 2036 EB II |
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Future Renewable Energy Delivery and Management Systems Center (FREEDM) Professors S. Battacharya and A. Huang Location: EB II Atrium and Breezeway |
Special Presentations
Presented by Professor Bart Greene - Troxler Lab
Senior design requires students to utilize design, analysis, speaking and writing skills gained in their undergraduate education to solve real world problems posed by industry and university professionals. It is the capstone course of undergraduate education and this is where it happens.
The Troxler Design Center will be open for walk-through displays of the equipment used by ECE seniors in this course. Several "in the works" projects will be on hand to show the breadth of technologies you can study in the department.
Presented by Professor Steven Walsh and Students of the EEP - 2nd Floor EEP Lab
The EEP is a full-immersion educational experience where engineering, business and industrial design come together. Undergraduates participate in multidisciplinary teams taking their ideas from dream to prototype to next generation high-tech product.
Undergraduates at all grade-levels in all the engineering and science disciplines are encouraged to participate in the program with seniors running a project as a virtual startup company.
Presented by Professor Michael Escuti - Room 1026
Resistors, capacitors, transmitters and amplifiers--these are just a few of the concepts covered in our regular sophomore laboratory. Get a taste of the course that's the hands-on foundation for all electrical and computer engineers!
