Bioelectronics Engineering

Bioelectronics is the application of electrical engineering principles to biology, medicine, behavior or health. It advances the fundamental concepts, creates knowledge for the molecular to the organ systems levels, and develops innovative devices or processes for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, for patient rehabilitation, and for improving health.

Bioelectromagnetics, instrumentation, neural networks, robotics, and...   [ MORE ]

Communications and Signal Processing

A signal is any a detectable physical quantity or impulse by which messages or information can be transmitted. The technology of measurable signals is the focus of this research group. For instance, sound is measured by various pressure waves and light from your computer screen can be measured by its saturation, hue or illumination. The CSP research group develops ways in which to efficiently measure these forms of data. Topics of research...   [ MORE ]

Computer Architecture and Systems

As Moore’s Law approaches its theoretical limit, maximizing the efficiency of computers becomes increasingly important. Research into computer architecture, or how computers are structured to manage the signals they send and receive, is focused on two primary areas of inquiry.

The first area, parallelism research, investigates how to accelerate computer tasks by doing as many different operations as possible at the same time. The second...   [ MORE ]

Microwave, RF, Analog, and Digital

The electromagnetic field generated when an alternating current is input to an antenna is called an RF field or radio wave. Ranging from a frequency of about 9 kilohertz (kHz) up to thousands of gigahertz (GHz), the RF spectrum is used by many types of everyday devices -- radio, television, cordless and cellular telephones, satellite communication systems, and many measuring and instrumentation systems used in manufacturing.

These devices...   [ MORE ]

Nanoelectronics and Photonics

The quantum phenomena of nanoscale structures can be used to discover and engineer effects that can be usefully employed for high performance computing and telecommunications applications, and for advanced concepts in sensor biophysics devices. Research interests focus on semiconductor physics and modeling of electronic and optoelectronic devices in the nanoscale, low dimensional effects, quantum effects, quantum information...   [ MORE ]

Networking

The Internet as we know it is a point-to-point communication model. Networking takes the model a step further. By using networking you can turn the net created by point-to-point communication into a finer integrated mesh of communication points. We research methods in which to effectively organize the flow of traffic which exists in these networks through the use of computer software with an ultimate aim at designing, building and operating...   [ MORE ]

Power Electronics and Power Systems

Power electronics is the engineering study of converting electrical power from one form to another. At a world-wide average rate of 12 billion kilowatts every hour of every day of every year, more than 40% of the power generated is being reprocessed or recycled through some form of power electronic systems. By 2010, it is expected this will increase up to 80%. A lot of energy is wasted during this power conversion process due to low power...   [ MORE ]