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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!


SMU


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


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


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


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


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


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


EE Faculty

• 15 Regular Faculty• One Senior Lecturer• Two Courtesy Appointments with CSE• Two Research Appointments with

Physics• 15 Adjunct Faculty


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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