Electrical Engineering at UNO

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Electrical Engineeringat UNO

• Dr. Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois
• Associate Professor
• Department of Electrical Engineering
• 2008/2009

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College of Engineering

• EE is one of 4 Departments
• Electrical Engineering
• Civil Engineering (also environmental grad)
• Mechanical Engineering
• Naval architecture and marine engineering
• Programs
• BS
• MS engineering
• MS environmental engineering
• MS engineering management
• Ph.D. in Engineering and applied sciences

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EE at UNO

• 4 years for BS (ABET)
• 1-2 for MS
• 4-7 PhD
• Concentrations in
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical Engineering (communications and
  Machinery options
• 4-year curriculum
• Evening and day courses
• Cost
• 1500/semester for Full time UG (residents)
  fees
• Scholarships and grants available

The Princeton Review praised UNO for its
strong Academics, rating UNO 70 out of more than
3000 USA Universities.
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Electrical Engineering

• The field of electrical and computer engineering
  is primarily involved with the tasks of
  generation, transmission, processing, and storage
  of information or electric power (signals). The
  underlying factor is the use of electricity or
  electromagnetic waves (such as light) and sound.

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Electrical Engineering

• Broad field, fun, difficult
• Areas
• Computer engineering
• Power
• Controls
• Communications
• Signal processing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Electronics and Devices
• Many more

• What EEs do
• Design
• Research
• Development
• Implementation
• Testing

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Job Types and examples

• Consulting (MS Benbow)
• Utilities
• Power generation, transmission, distribution
  (Entergy)
• Telecommunications (Bellsouth, Cox, Verizon)
• Oil industry, petrochemicals
• Controls (Johnsons Controls)
• Instrumentation (Shell)
• Process engineering (Input-Output)
• Education and Training (UNO, ITT)
• Research and development (NRL, NASA, DOD)
• Specialized Industries
• Chip manufacturing (Motorola)
• Modem development (Qualcomm)
• Computer design (Dell)
• Networking (Cisco Systems)
• Signal processing (Texas Instruments)

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Job Benefits

• EE among top engineering salaries
• Starting 60 K
• Medium 85 K
• High level over 100 K
• Market
• Always a demand for EEs
• Ups and down with economy
• Ups and down with areas
• Job security
• High government (e.g. DoD, DoE, research labs,
  teaching)
• Medim utilities, consulting
• Lower new technologies, small companies

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Requirements - Suggestions

• Must like/be good at
• Mathematics
• Physics, chemistry, other sciences
• Computer use/programming
• Communication skills
• Innovative and curious
• playing with or building

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CURRICULUM IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERINGCommunication
s option
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Facilities at COE-EE

• The College of Engineering's Department of
  Electrical Engineering is located in a modern,
  state-of-the-art, nine-story building.
  Specialized facilities include
• Analog and Digital Control Systems Laboratories
• Optics Laboratory
• Fiber Optics Laboratory
• Communications Laboratory
• Energy Conversion Laboratory (aka machinery lab)
• Information Processing Systems Laboratory
• Microprocessor Laboratory
• Digital Logic Laboratory
• Electronics Laboratories
• Electronics and Computer Maintenance Shops
• Information and Systems Research Center

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Student Organizations

• IEEE - UNO Student Chapter
• Eta Kappa Nu (EE honors) Student Chapter
• Tau Beta Pi (Engr honors) UNO Student Chapter

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Examples of Student and Faculty Projectsin
Electrical Engineering
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Sunrayce Solar Cars
Sunrayce97
Sunrayce99
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Robotics Cars
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Shuttle Fuel Tank Testing and Control
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Electrical EngineeringGraduate Programsand
Research
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Facilities at COE-EE

• NEW Target Surveillance Testbed Research
  laboratory
• NEW Power Systems Research Laboratory
• Entergy Endowed Chair in Power Systems
  Engineering
• Two additional faculty members in Power systems
  and Power Electronics.
• Real Time Systems Simulator
• Information Systems Technology Research Center
• Center for Energy Resources Management (CERM),
• Information Systems Laboratory (ISL).
• Optics Laboratory
• Ellipsometry/Polarimetry Laboratory

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UNO-EE Research Projects

• CMOS Image Sensors
• Wireless Motor Control
• Coordinated UV Routing in Variable Environments
• Ddetection and classification algorithms for
  Sonar systems
• Vision System for Welding Applications
• Algorithms and Software Architecture for the
  Processing of LIDAR Data
• Adaptive Target State Estimator for Hit-to-Kill
  Interceptor
• Wireless Telemetry for Streetlight Control

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A Surveillance Testbed with Networked Sensors for
Integrated Target Inference
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Target Information Processing Data Fusion
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Research Areas

• Research Focus Areas
• Information fusion and target tracking,
  detection, and recognition
• Signal, image, and data processing
• Optics and optical systems
• Computing and communications
• Research Areas of Expertise
• Information fusion and target tracking,
  detection, and recognition
• Signal and data processing (digital, statistical,
  optical, biomedical, radar, sonar, and audio)
• Polarization, reflection, and thin-film optics
  ellipsometry and polarimetry
• Image processing (texture analysis, image
  compression, computer vision, and face
  recognition)
• Communications (digital, wireless, and optical),
  sensor networks, error-correction and speech
  coding
• Computing (reconfigurable, optical, and high
  performance), electronic design, embedded systems
• Statistical inference, estimation, decision,
  filtering, identification, and forecasting
• Control systems (stochastic systems, stability
  analysis, system identification), industrial
  controls, and optimization
• Neural networks, learning, pattern recognition,
  and computational intelligence
• Sensors and sensor systems (fiber-optic sensors,
  radar and sonar systems), computational
  electromagnetics
• Power systems, electrical machinery, and
  high-voltage engineering

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Check us Out

• UNO
• http//www.uno.edu
• UNO-COE
• http//coe.uno.edu
• UNO-EE
• http//ece.engr.uno.edu/
• Dr. Bourgeois
• http//fs.uno.edu/ejbourge

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Any Questions?

• Thank you for your attention and time