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Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering. Dallas: Location, Location, Location. #2 High-Tech Center in USA Home to: Texas Instruments, EDS, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, American Airlines, Sabre, ExxonMobil, TXU, Austin Industries and many more

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Department of Electrical Engineering

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering

  2. Dallas: Location, Location, Location #2 High-Tech Center in USA Home to: Texas Instruments, EDS, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, American Airlines, Sabre, ExxonMobil, TXU, Austin Industries and many more Don’t forget the Cowboys, Mavs, Rangers, and some of the best visual and performing arts in the country And…more restaurants per capita than NYC!

  3. SMU

  4. SMU Information • Southern Methodist University • Founded: 1911 • Seven Schools • Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences • Cox School of Business • Meadows School of Arts • School of Engineering • Dedman School of Law • Perkins School of Theology • Demographics • 6,500 Undergraduate students • 4,500 Graduate students

  5. School of Engineering • Student Profile • More than 600 undergraduate students and over 1,000 graduate-level students. • Have one of the highest profiles of female students in the country at 30% - and growing! • 70% receive scholarships or financial aid • Faculty • 50+ faculty

  6. The Engineering Quadrangle • New front door of SMU Campus • Caruth Hall • Jerry R. Junkins Building • New Embrey Engineering Building • Blanton Student Services Building • Collins Executive Education Center

  7. Engineering Outreach • 2001 Created the Institute for Engineering Education - first Federally Funded Institute focused on Engineering at all grade levels • Created The Infinity Project – one of the nation’s largest pre-college engineering education programs • Founder of Visioneering – key national event for National Engineers Week –with companion national TV Show seen by 8 million students across the country • Gender Parity Initiative – first engineering school in the country to set goal of 50% women • Math/Science Readiness Camps – regional summer program to increase math/science preparedness in disadvantaged communities

  8. The Infinity Project • First comprehensive high-tech engineering curriculum for high schools • Taught in 21 states today • Offer curriculum, technology, professional development for teachers • Funded by State of Texas, DOE, NSF, TI, with support from National Instruments Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison with Infinity Project students

  9. Bachelors Degrees in Computer Science/Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Environment Engineering/Science Civil Engineering Management Science Masters Degrees offered in the Executive Format Engineering Management Systems Engineering Software Engineering Security Engineering School of Engineering Departments Computer Science and Engineering Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Environmental and Civil Engineering Engineering Management and Information Systems Academic Programs and School Organization

  10. 15 Regular Faculty One Senior Lecturer Two Courtesy Appointments with CSE Two Research Appointments with Physics 15 Adjunct Faculty EE Faculty

  11. EE Student Enrollments Class Statistics – Fall 2006 Undergraduate 14 Senior Electives/Graduate 12 Advanced Graduate 8 (All graduate classes are video recorded)

  12. EE Degrees Awarded

  13. EE Dept Areas of Expertise • Signal Processing • Image Processing / Watermarking • Audio and Speech Processing • Intelligent Systems / Pattern Recognition • Communications • Energy-Efficient Multi-Tier Wireless Networks • Network Traffic Characterization • Internet Security

  14. EE Dept Areas of Expertise (cont’d) • Optoelectronics • Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers for Telecom • High-Power GSE Lasers • Free-Space Optical Interconnection Architectures • Information-Efficient Sensor Architectures • Computer Engineering • VLSI Design

  15. Flat Computation Image Sensor Development Project Leader: Prof. Marc P. Christensen • Objective: • Design/build flat camera. • Results and Impact: • Applications include helmet mounted cameras on firefighters and soldiers to UAV remote sensing. • Collaborators: • Univ. Delaware and Santa Clara University Bulky Fixed Cameras Adaptive Flat Image Sensor This work will change the way we collect and process visual information.

  16. Acoustic Blind Signal SeparationProject Leader: Scott C. Douglas • Objective: Extract multiple acoustic signals from multichannel recordings • Results and Impact: Novel signal separation algorithms using short-length filters. • Collaborators: H. Sawada and S. Makino, NTT (Kyoto)

  17. Seamless provision of services in wireless networksPI: Dinesh Rajan Objective: Energy efficient heterogeneous wireless network design Results and Impact: • Substantial decrease in mobile node transmit power. • New environment aware smart mobile nodes. • Seamless “call” handovers across networks • Primary focus is on PHY and MAC layers Cellular WLAN Bluetooth

  18. Panos Papamichalis • Robust Video Super-Resolution Producing a high-quality video from a low resolution one. One of the LR Frames Output HR Frame • Dynamic Range Compression for High-Contrast Photography Enhancing underexposed images affected by high-contrast. Enhanced Image Original Image

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