Department of Electrical Engineering
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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!
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SMU
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Academic Programs and School Organization
• 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
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EE Faculty
• 15 Regular Faculty• One Senior Lecturer• Two Courtesy Appointments with CSE• Two Research Appointments with
Physics• 15 Adjunct Faculty
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EE Student Enrollments
Undergraduate 87
EE Graduate 186
Class Statistics – Fall 2006
Undergraduate 14
Senior Electives/Graduate 12
Advanced Graduate 8
(All graduate classes are video recorded)
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EE Degrees Awarded
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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
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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
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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
Flat Computation Image Sensor Development Project Leader: Prof. Marc P. Christensen
This work will change the way we collect and process visual
information.
Bulky Fixed
Cameras
Adaptive Flat
Image Sensor
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Objective: Extract multiple acoustic signals from multichannel recordingsResults and Impact: Novel signal separation algorithms using short-length filters. Collaborators: H. Sawada and S. Makino, NTT (Kyoto)
Acoustic Blind Signal SeparationProject Leader: Scott C. Douglas
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Seamless provision of services in wireless networks
PI: 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
WLAN
Cellular
Bluetooth
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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.
Original Image
Enhanced Image
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