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Overview of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue Mark J. T. Smith, PhD Professor and Head Electrical and Computer Engineering
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1.2 Purdue University 30,000+ undergraduates 6000+ graduate students 2300+ faculty
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1.3 Electrical & Computer Engineering One of the nation’s largest schools: –28% of graduate degrees in SoE at Purdue –27% of Engineering Baccalaureate degrees –Ranked in the top 10 ECE graduate programs 79 Faculty 1127 Undergraduate Students 200 Masters Students 320 Ph.D. Students
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1.4 ECE’s Faculty is Distinguished 8 Distinguished/Named Professors (S’03) 21 Fellows of the IEEE; 5 IEEE Millennium Medals 9 NSF Career Awardees Many best paper awards including: 2001 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Best Paper Award in the Field of Communications Systems, Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA 2000) Been granted or have filed a large number of patents in the domain of wireless technologies. Recipients of many awards including: 2001 IBM Faculty Partnership Award, 2002 IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society Distinguished Educator Award, 1999 IEEE Lasers & Electgro-optics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, 1997 AT&T/Lucent Foundation Award, 2000 IEEE Education Society/Hewlett-Packard Outstanding Woman Engineering Educator Award, NSF Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars.
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Historical Milestones Creation of Electrical Engineering Addition of Computer Engineering Ascension to being nationally recognized 2003-07 Rise to preeminence
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The Time Is Now! New president New provost New engineering dean New resources identified 300 new faculty $1.3B campaign facilities, scholarships, chairs Preeminence in Learning, Discovery, Engagement
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Learning Now available in new flavors Research experiences-hands on VISE (Video and Image Syst. Eng) Technology enhanced education
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Compute Enhanced Learning
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Portable Reception Devices
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Discovery Computer engineering Communications and Signal Proc. Fields and Optics VLSI and Circuits Biomedical Solid State Automatic Controls Energy Sources and Systems
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1.11 ECE Research Future growth in areas of strategic initiatives: –Wireless –Nanotechnology –Photonics –Signal and Information Processing –Dependable computing –Biomedical applications –…
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What does it mean for our students to be educated in an environment of Discovery? Exposure to next gen technology Exposure to industry and industry needs Opportunity for commercialization Connections to international community
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1.13 Discovery Park Master PlanBirckNanotechnologyCenter BindleyBioscienceCenter Burton Morgan EntrepreneurshipCenter
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The Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue’s Discovery Park James A. Cooper, Co-Director Richard J. Schwartz, Co-Director NSF, NASA Center Awards Mark Lunstrom
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1.15 Nano Technology Center
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Unique Facility
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1.17 Unique Facility
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Excitement of nanoscale technology 100 nm and below (Nano) 30-80 nm - viruses 10 nm – proteins 2 nm and below – carbon nanotubes (30 atom circ) --molecular electronics Nano structures Neuron interfaces 5 terabyte drives by 2007
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1.20 Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems MEMS and NEMS Micro machines Micro-fluidics Scanning probe technology Sensors Microscopic Flow Sensor 250 µm
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1.21 Micro-Biotechnology Marriage of nanotechnology and biotechnology Highly interdisciplinary Exploits Purdue’s strengths in engineering and the life sciences (biology, biomedical engineering, and veterinary medicine) 80 µm Input port Cavities Pt electrodes 20µm wide channel From R. Bashir, Purdue Bio-Chip for Detection of Pathogens in Food
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1.22 Low Power Circuits Kaushik Roy Subthreshold Leakage Control –Transistor stacking technique –Multiple threshold Voltage –Dynamic threshold Voltage Gate Leakage –Transistor stacking –Multiple Tox Band-To-Band-Tunneling –Optimized devices Low Power Memory –Dynamic threshold voltage Borkar: Intel Wavelet circuit analysis
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1.23 Audio Processing SSM: analysis, synthesis Enables time scale modification Enables pitch scale modification Enables time-varying pitch and TSM. Computer synthesis of speech, singing and music. Voice recognition
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Image Processing Suppression of Atmospheric Turbulence Security-encryption, Transmission Compression, Enhancement, Detection and Recognition
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1.25 computer aided diagnosis/treatment computer aided surgical planning telemedicine the virtual hospital Fig. 14. Tetrahedral multi-zone mesh of patient reconstruction shown in Fig. 13. Biomedical Signal Processing
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1.26 Telemedicine
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Engagement Who will hear?
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Engagement on Campus Broadband Diversity – Student-faculty diversity Cultural diversity Technical diversity
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1.29 1995-2002: 1500 Purdue students to date Over 120 projects deployed 300+ students, 20 departments, 24 teams 11 industry advisors $10+M total from grants, industry, Purdue, and alumni EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service
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1.30 Opportunities for Global Partnerships
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1.31 Industry Engagement CorporationECE AlumniPurdue Alumni General Motors 3502617 Motorola342 673 IBM3301414 Boeing2571440 Raytheon222 807 General Electric2171647 Intel180 455 Lockheed Martin176 860 Lucent161 492 Delphi Automotive Sys.161 657
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1.32 Alumni Engagement Research collaborations Student-alum networking Feedback to ECE Commercialization Keep in touch
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ECE’s Advancement Professionals Margarita Contreni Amy Noah Deborah Starewich
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