Overview of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue

Mark J. T. Smith, PhDProfessor and Head

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Purdue University

30,000+ undergraduates 6000+ graduate students 2300+ faculty

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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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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.

Historical Milestones

•Creation of Electrical Engineering •Addition of Computer Engineering•Ascension to being nationally recognized•2003-07 Rise to preeminence

The Time Is Now!

•New president•New provost•New engineering dean•New resources identified• 300 new faculty•$1.3B campaign

• facilities, scholarships, chairsPreeminence in Learning, Discovery, Engagement

Learning

Now available in new flavorsResearch experiences-hands onVISE (Video and Image Syst. Eng)Technology enhanced education

Aware Classroom

Traditional Classroom

Single-UserAware Classroom

ComputerPDA

DistributedClassroomPlatform

Aware Classroom

Compute Enhanced Learning

Portable Reception Devices

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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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 technologyExposure to industry and industry needsOpportunity for commercializationConnections to international community

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Discovery Park Master PlanBirckBirckNanotechnologyNanotechnologyCenterCenter

BindleyBindleyBioscienceBioscienceCenterCenter

Burton MorganBurton MorganEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurshipCenterCenter

The Birck Nanotechnology Centerin Purdue’s Discovery Park

James A. Cooper, Co-Director

Richard J. Schwartz, Co-Director

NSF, NASA Center Awards

Mark Lunstrom

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Nano Technology Center

Unique Facility

Excitement of nanoscale technology

100 nm and below (Nano)30-80 nm - viruses 10 nm – proteins2 nm and below – carbon nanotubes (30 atom circ) --molecular electronicsNano structuresNeuron interfaces5 terabyte drives by 2007

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Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems MEMS and NEMS

Micro machines Micro-fluidics Scanning probe

technology Sensors

Microscopic Flow Sensor Microscopic Flow Sensor

250 µm250 µm

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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)

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Bio-Chip for DetectionBio-Chip for Detection

of Pathogens in Foodof Pathogens in Food

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Low Power CircuitsKaushik 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: IntelWavelet circuit analysis

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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

Image Processing

Suppression of Atmospheric Turbulence

Security-encryption, TransmissionCompression, Enhancement,Detection and Recognition

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• 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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Telemedicine

Engagement

Who will hear?

Engagement on Campus

Broadband Diversity – Student-faculty diversityCultural diversityTechnical diversity

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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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Opportunities for Global Partnerships

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Industry Engagement

Corporation ECE Alumni Purdue Alumni

General Motors 350 2617

Motorola 342 673

IBM 330 1414

Boeing 257 1440

Raytheon 222 807

General Electric 217 1647

Intel 180 455

Lockheed Martin 176 860

Lucent 161 492

Delphi Automotive Sys. 161 657

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Alumni Engagement

Research collaborations Student-alum networking Feedback to ECE Commercialization Keep in touch

ECE’s Advancement Professionals

Margarita ContreniAmy NoahDeborah Starewich