Overview of ECE's Technical Interest Groups

ECE's faculty is organized into 10 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 in multiple TIGs. Following is a brief description of each TIG, with a bulleted list of their major areas of research.

Technical Interest Group	Research Areas
Bioengineering: Bioengineering is concerned with the application of engineering principles to the study and control of biological processes. In this area, mathematical and physical concepts are developed which are applied to medicine and biology Bioengineering Faculty members	Biosensors/BioMEMS Neuroengineering Medical Imaging and Signal Processing

Computer Engineering: The field of computer engineering is centered in digital design, computer architecture, and computer applications. This includes circuits and devices, computer systems, and engineering software systems. Computer Engineering Faculty members	Computer Architecture Embedded Systems and Software Design Tools, Test and Verification Computer Networks and Internetworking Distributed Systems and Software VLSI Design

Digital Signal Processing: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is concerned with the representation of signals in digital form, and with the transformation of such signal representations using digital computation. Digital Signal Processing Faculty members	DSP Theory Image and Video Signal Processing Multimedia Signal Processing and Networking Signal Processing for Communications and Security Radar and Array Processing Speech and Audio Processing Statistical Signal Processing Hardware/Software Systems for Signal Processing

Electrical Energy: Electrical Energy is primarily concerned with meeting the future demand for electric energy while satisfying environmental constraints. Electrical Energy Faculty members	Power System Monitoring, Analysis Protection, Operation and Control Distributed Generation Power System Simulation and Visualization High Voltage Engineering and Power System Components Electric Machine Control, Condition and Monitoring and Protection Power Electronics

Electromagnetics: Electromagnetics involves the study of Maxwell’s equations and their application to the analysis and design of devices and systems. Electromagnetics Faculty members	Microwave Circuits Remote Sensing of Obscured Targets RadioScience, Plantary Remote Sensing, and Space Communications Analysis and Design of Antennas Computational Techniques for Electromagnetics Signal Integrity in Digital and Mixed Signal Systems Terrestrial Radio Wave Propagation

Electronic Design and Applications: Electronic Design and Applications involves device and integrated circuit fabrication, circuit and system design and simulation, and instrumentation and testing techniques Electronic Design and Applications Faculty members	MEMs Circuit Technology Analog VLSI Radio Frequency/Wireless Integrated Circuits (RFIC) High Speed Mixed Signal Analog

Microelectronics/Microsystems: Microelectronics is concerned with the design, analysis, growth, and fabrication of micron/sub-micron feature length devices Microelectronics/Microsystems Faculty members	Microsystems and Nanosystems Photovoltaics Microelectronics Systems Packaging Manufacturing and Gigascale Integration Compound Semiconductors Biomedical Microsystems

Optics and Photonics: Optics and Photonics involves the study of lasers, optics, and holography. Optics and Photonics Faculty members	Optical Communication Networks Nonlinear Optics Photonics and optoelectronics Diffractive and holographic optics

Systems and Controls: Systems and controls is concerned with mathematical and computational techniques for modeling, estimation, and control of systems and processes Systems and Controls Faculty members	Mathematical systems theory Discrete event systems and hybrid system Nonlinear control Computer vision Intelligent control Sensor technologies Robotics

Telecommunications: Telecommunications is concerned with the characterization, representation, transmission, storage, and networking of information over various media including space, optical fiber, and cable. Telecommunications Faculty members	Wireless Communications and Networking Communication Theory Information Theory and Adaptive Systems Multimedia Networking Inter-networking, Network Management, and Network Security Optical Networks

Last revised on January 17, 2006.