Interdisciplinary research and education programs are a major part of the activities of the College of Engineering. Some of these programs involve projects that require expertise from several disciplines, including electrical and computer engineering. These programs encompass a wide variety of topics in science and engineering with major emphasis on programs providing graduate thesis research under the direction of faculty members.

Electrical and computer engineering faculty and graduate students collaborate with researchers in other departments, such as computer science, physics, medicine and mathematics, and in interdisciplinary programs such as materials science. Students affiliated with these programs earn degrees in their regular academic departments.

Computing facilities are operated by the UW-Madison Division of Information Technology (DoIT), the college's Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), and the ECE department. Department facilities consist of a heterogeneous network of workstations and personal computers, which provide computing and general office support for faculty, staff and graduate engineering students.

All workstations and personal computers are on a common Ethernet. There is network access to extensive college workstation facilities as well as to national and international networks.

ECE DEPARTMENT LABORATORIES

• Computational Electromagnetics
• Computer Control and Instrumentation
• Digital Microprocessors
• Digital Signal Processing
• EDA: Systems Design and Test
• Integrated Optics
• Laser Plasma Microwave Agile Mirror
• High-Power Microwave Devices
• High-Power Microwave Materials
• Medical Instrumentation and Biomedical Computing
• Microelectronics and Integrated-Circuit Fabrication
• Microsystems Technology Laboratory
• Microwave Devices, Circuits, and Antennas
• Modern Feedback Control
• Nonlinear Systems
• Rotating Electric Machines and Power Electronics
• Robotics Laboratory
• VLSI Design and Design Automation Lab
• Wireless Communications

INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTERS AND LABORATORIES

• Biomedical Engineering Center
• Center for NanoTechnology
• Center for Plasma Theory and Computation
• HSX Plasma Laboratory
• Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
• Reed Center for Photonics
• Power Systems Engineering Research Center
• Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics
• Wisconsin Power Electronics Research Center

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