Recent Research Areas In Electrical Engineering

Prepared by:Eng. Hossam El-Sayed2011

Goal

This Presentation gives a simple introduction to the Recent areas of research in the field of Electrical Engineering with the concentration on the Circuits and VLSI branch.

The Major topics of Research I interest in will also introduce.

Outlines

Areas of Research in Electrical Engineering

Major University and its Research Areas

Circuits and VLSI Research topics Open Discussion

Areas of Research in Electrical Engineering

Biomedical (Bioelectrical) Engineering

Concerned with the development and manufacture of prostheses, medical devices, diagnostic devices, drugs, and other therapies.

It includes a mixture of electrical engineering, physics, chemistry and biology, with an emphasis on neurophysiology at the molecular and cellular levels.

Communications and Signal Processing

Communications engineering and information theory are interested in the efficient representation and reliable transmission and/or storage of information.

Signal processing and systems theory is concerned with theoretical developments that improve our understanding of communication, control, and information processing.

Computer Engineering

Research activities in computer systems are explored at various design levels, including VLSI, circuit, logic, microarchitecture, system, and network architectures.

The research addresses aspects of high performance, low power, mobility, security, and reliability in computer systems -- including parallel processing, multiprocessing, embedded systems, and distributed network processing architectures.

Dynamics and Controls

Control techniques are used whenever some quantity, such as speed, temperature, or force must be made to behave in some desirable way over time.

Dynamics and controls group, research opportunities include developing controllers for aircraft, spacecraft, information storage systems, human-machine interfaces, manufacturing processes, and power systems.

Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves

The research program in applied electromagnetics covers a variety of topics that address current commercial, civil, and military needs.

Interests include active circuits and antennas for communications and radar, theoretical and numerical techniques for analysis of high-frequency circuits and antennas, RF photonics, artificial electromagnetic materials, electromagnetic remote sensing, etc.

Nanostructures and Devices

this field is concerned with design, fabrication and characterization of novel materials and devices with sub-micron feature sizes.

The design and fabrication of devices and integrated circuits are inextricably related to device physics, solid-state materials, and sophisticated processing techniques.

Optics and Photonics

The research in optics and photonics deals with the design, fabrication, and characterization of materials, devices and systems for the generation, transmission, amplification, detection, and processing of light signals.

These are enabling and pervasive technologies applied in fields like communications, sensing, bio-medical instrumentation, consumer electronics, and defense.

VLSI/CAD

Research in VLSI/CAD works toward developing new algorithms and design methodologies to efficiently design VLSI ICs.

VLSI Design: Circuits to speed up on-chip data transfers, alleviate on-chip cross-talk, extreme low power circuits, circuits for low leakage power.

VLSI Design Automation: logic synthesis, layout synthesis, design automation of datapath circuits, hierarchical logic synthesis, fast delay estimation techniques for VLSI ICs.

Major University and its Research Areas

Major University and its Research Areas

Harvard University Computer Engineering and Architecture Circuits and VLSI Signal Processing Robotics and Control

Major University and its Research Areas

MIT Systems, Communication, Control and

Signal Processing Computer Science Electronics, Computers, and Systems Engineering Physics

Major University and its Research Areas

Stanford Systems Software: OS, compilers, languages Systems Hardware: architecture, VLSI,

embedded systems Network Systems and Science: next gen

internet, wireless networks Communication Systems: wireless, optical,

wireline Control, Learning, and Optimization Integrated Circuit design: MEMs, sensors,

analog, RFFor other research areas http://ee.stanford.edu/research_areas.php

Stanford

Major University and its Research Areas

Pittsburgh Computer engineering Devices (electronic and optical) Signals and systems (signal processing,

image processing, pattern recognition, and control)

http://www.engr2.pitt.edu/electrical/research/index.html

Major University and its Research Areas

University of Colorado Biomedical Engineering Communications and Signal

Processing Computer Engineering Dynamics and Controls Electromagnetics, RF and

Microwaves Nanostructures and Devices VLSI/CAD

Major University and its Research Areas

University of Ottawa University of Pennsylvania University of ChicagoUniversity of Toronto California Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of UCLA

Circuits and VLSI Research topics

Circuits and VLSI Research topics VLSI architectures and algorithms for signal

processing and communications, computer arithmetic and reconfigurable architectures.

Circuits and Systems for Signal Processing and Communications: This activity involves developing VLSI

algorithms, architectures and circuits for digital signal processing, image processing and wireless communications.

Examples: ADPLL, reconfigurable radio, low power digital filters, low power video decoding for mobile digital video platforms, etc.

Circuits and VLSI Research topics Reconfigurable Digital Systems:

Involves design and development of reconfigurable hardware that is suitable for DSP, multimedia applications, Rapid prototyping of wireless communication systems and sensor network platform .

Reprogrammable Logic / FPGAs High Speed Digital Design Interconnect & Packaging

Open Discussion