Engineering Professional Development telecommunications, including wireless (cellular and PCS), fiber optics, digital switching, transmission, microwave radio
Electrical and Computer Engineering Design Automation of Deep Submicron VLSI circuits in the presence of manufacturing-induced variations: 1) robust analysis with incomplete variation/correlation information; 2) analysis with non-Gaussian variation modeling; 3) efficient analysis with high dimension of variation sources [collaboration with Statistics department]; 4) finding critical timing paths under variations and intersecting areas between testing and statistical static timing analysis. -- Physical synthesis: interactions between logic synthesis and physical domains: 1) for consideration of interconnect effects on delay and congestion; 2) for accounting for within-die variations and spatial correlations. -- Parallelism for IC-CAD: 1) studying advances in parallel optimization with application to IC-CAD problems [collaboration with ISyE department], 2) parallel IC-CAD for various computing environments (i.e., grid of heterogeneous multi-core machines), 3) studying advantages of parallelism: potential for generating optimal solution for NP-hard CAD problems, improve scalability with runtime and quality of solution. -- Power-awareness and power-management techniques.
Computer Engineering
Biological Systems Engineering, Food Research Institute, Food Science Plasma-enhanced synthesis and surface modification of materials -- Immobilization of active biomolecules onto plasma-functionalized surfaces -- Deposition of anti-fouling and anti-microbial surface layers -- Plasma-enhanced synthesis of nanoparticle systems -- Development of novel non-equilibrium plasma tools.
Materials Science Program
Institute for Environmental Studies redox potentials at water/peat interface in wetland ponds -- statistical techniques development for evaluation of negative skewness in ectotherm thermoregulation -- microcomputer techniques for ecosystem modeling -- evaluation of mitigation procedures for highway impacts on wetlands -- hydrological factors in wetland formation -- riverine wetland formation -- wetland%
Limnology and Marine Science
Engineering Professional Development, Mechanical Engineering energy management -- manufacturing processes -- laboratory design -- thermal storage energy -- heating and air conditioning -- cogeneration -- indoor air quality -- productivity -- refrigeration -- building design
Energy Technology Center
fiber optics -- cellular and basic telephony -- telecommunications grounding and protection -- digital switching -- traffic and wireless communications
