Title: ECE Illinois Overview
1ECE Illinois Overview
- Brad Petersen
- Assistant Director of Communications
- Fall 2007
2The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3 Here, my friends, on the prairies of
Illinois and of the Middle West,
We can see a long way in all directions.
We look to east, to west, to
north and south.
Our commerce, our ideas, come and go in all
directions. Here there
are no barriers, No defenses, to ideas
or the spirit, No rigid patterns
of thought, and no iron conformity.
-Adlai E. Stevenson II, Illinois Governor
1949-1953
4The University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign
- Land-grant university created by Morrill Act
- Founded in 1867
- Flagship institution
- 41,342 students
- 2,083 faculty
- 7,155 staff
Alma Mater
As of 9-07
5Administration
- Joseph B. White, President, University of
Illinois - Richard Herman, Chancellor, Urbana Campus
- Linda Katehi, Provost and Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs, Urbana Campus (an ECE
professor) - Ilesanmi Adesida, College of Engineering Dean (an
ECE professor) - Richard E. Blahut, ECE Illinois Department Head
6This university has many faces a superb
undergraduate institution for exceptionally
talented students a research powerhouse that
produces breathtaking discoveries and advances
in knowledge one of the world's leading
training grounds for the next generation of
scientists, professors, and policy makers and,
a force shaping the possibilities of the future
across the domains of human endeavor.
-Chancellor Richard Herman
7University of IllinoisResearch Powerhouse
- 21 Nobel Prizes and 20 Pulitzer Prizes
(faculty/alumni) - 359 active US patents
- Spends more than 500 million for science and
engineering RD (2004) - Received more NSF funding than any other academic
institution each year from 1998 to 2003, second
most in 2004 - Nationally, ranked 8th in PhDs awarded (2006)
As of 6-07
8University of IllinoisHow We Size Up
- 272 main campus buildings on 2.3 square miles
- 562 total campus buildings on 7.5 square miles
- Over 1,000 registered student organizations,
coalitions, honorary societies, and teams - One of the largest alumni organizations in the
nation with nearly 140,000 members
As of 6-07
9Weve Got World Connections
- The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai
- Jiao Tong University ranks us 25th in their
2006Top 500 World Universities - Ranked 9th nationally in number of students
enrolled in study abroad programs - Ranked 6th nationally for total number of
international students enrolled - Home to PLATO and the first computer network
ranked 6th most connected, plugged-in, and
high-tech campuses in the country by PC Magazine
(2006)
10Engineering at Illinois
1112 Distinguished Departments
- Aerospace
- Agricultural and Biological
- Bioengineering
- Chemical and Biomolecular
- Civil and Environmental
- Computer Science
- Electrical and Computer
- Industrial and Enterprise Systems
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Science and Engineering
- Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological
- Physics
12College of Engineering Numbers
- Undergraduate students 5,010
- Graduate students 2,307
- Professors 208
- Associate professors 73
- Assistant professors 92
- BS degrees conferred 1,108
- MS degrees conferred 535
- PhD degrees conferred 232
As of 6-07
13Major Research Facilities
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and
Technology - Coordinated Science Laboratory
- Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
- Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Beckman Institute
14Over 40 Interdisciplinary/ Multidisciplinary
Centers and Laboratories
- Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of
Water with Systems - Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering
Laboratory - Information Trust Institute
- Mid-America Earthquake Center
- Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanica
l - Manufacturing Systems
- Power Systems Engineering Research Center
- Center for Reliable and High-Performance
Computing - Technology Entrepreneur Center
- Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets
15Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
- Technologically advanced inspiring learning and
discovery environment - Serves more than 1.5 million students, faculty,
and visitors each year - Capacity for 350,000 volumes
- 1,100 journal subscriptions
- Conference and series subscriptions
- High-end engineering workstations
Grainger Engineering Library
16US News Rankings
- The undergraduate engineering program ranks 4th
(2007) - The graduate engineering program ranks 5th (2008)
- Most of the colleges 12 departments are
consistently top-ranked
17Undergraduate Engineering Specialties In 2008 Top
Five
- Agricultural (1)
- Civil (1)
- Computer engineering (5)
- Electrical/electronic/communications (4)
- Engineering physics (3)
- Environmental/environmental health (3)
- Materials (5)
- Mechanical (5)
- Nuclear (4)
18Graduate Engineering Specialties In 2008 Top Five
- Civil (2)
- Computer engineering (4)
- Computer science (5)
- Electrical/electronic (4)
- Environmental (2)
- Materials (2)
- Physicscondensed matter/low temperature (1)
19The Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
20ECE Illinois
- Electrical engineering program established in
1891 - Computer engineering added in 1972
- Annually ranked a top program
- - Undergraduate and graduate electrical
engineering are ranked 4th by US News - - Undergraduate computer engineering is ranked
5th and graduate computer engineering is ranked
4th by US News - 20,000 alumni worldwide
21ECE Faculty
- 100 faculty members
- Over 50 Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) fellows - Seven American Physical Society (APS) fellows
- Seven Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
fellows - 10 American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS) fellows - Nine members of the National Academy of
Engineering (NAE) - Highly decoratedNational Medal of Science,
National Medal of Technology, Japan Prize,
Russian Energy Prize, IEEE Medal of Honor
Bruce Hajek
22Depth and Breadth
23Well-Placed Alumni
- Prith Banerjee, senior VP, HP
- Todd Beanblossom, chief engineer, Boeing
- Mark Bohr, senior fellow, Intel
- Ralph Cicerone, president, National Academy of
Science - Admiral Archie Clemins, commander-in-chief, US
Pacific Fleet (retired) - Martin Eberhard, founder and CEO, Tesla Motors
- Rob Kennedy, co-CEO, C-SPAN
- Brian Leung, founder, Bay Apparel
- Dirk Meyer, president and COO, Advanced Micro
Devices - Steve Sample, president, USC
- Jerry Sanders, founder, Advanced Micro Devices
- Steve Sullivan, director of R D, Industrial
Light Magic - Jack Sun, director of logic technology division,
TSMC
24Alumni Distribution
25Staff
- ECE staff includes 70 academic professionals and
hourly employees. - The average length of tenure is 9 years.
26ECE Undergraduate Students
- Total students 1,275
- Computer engineering (CE) majors 477
- Electrical engineering (EE) majors 798
- CE incoming freshmen
- average ACT score 30.8
- EE incoming freshmen
- average ACT score 30.9
- CE incoming freshmen average
- high school rank 89
- EE incoming freshmen average
- high school rank 89
- For 2005-06 academic year
- - 127 CE degrees conferred
- - 215 EE degrees conferred
As of 9-07
27ECE Graduate Students
- Total students 560
- For 2005-2006
- 125 Masters degrees conferred
- 53 PhD degrees conferred
-
As of 9-07
28Educating Tomorrows Engineers
- Students learn from faculty experts in their
fields. - 30 department undergraduate labs ensure hands-on
component. - Senior Design or Advanced Digital Projects
Laboratory classes allow undergrads to initiate
unique projects. - Students prepared for leadership roles in
increasingly global environment.
29ECE 110
- As freshmen, all ECE students take ECE 110, an
introductory course that provides an overview of
the discipline.
30ECE 444
- Students in ECE 444 theory and fabrication of
integrated circuit devices spend time working in
the yellow glow of the Fab Lab.
31ECE 498 Programming Massively Parallel
Processors
- As parallel processors become more prevalent,
need for experts will grow. - Development of ECE 498 was unique collaboration
between - David Kirk, NVIDIA chief scientist
- Wen-mei Hwu, AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of
Electrical and Computer Engineering - ECE Illinois and NVIDIA will share blueprint of
ECE 498 with numerous peer institutions.
32Why Hire ECE Students?
- Students study and collaborate with faculty who
are experts in their areas. They also interact
with fellow students who are outstanding and
diverse. - Students receive a hands-on education, spending a
great deal of time in the departments many
laboratories. - Most students leave Illinois prepared for life in
the real world, having survived at least four
years on a large campus offering many
distractions, challenges, and opportunities.
Students are mature, well-rounded, and ambitious.
33Student Recruitment Interviews
- Interviews scheduled 1,443
- Companies interviewing on campus 394
- Companies recruiting ECE students 542
- Average interviews for BS students 12
- Average interviews for MS students 10
- Average offers for BS students 2
- Average offers for MS students 3
34Student Recruitment Salary
- Average starting salary for
- Bachelors 58,453
- Masters 71,548
- Signing bonus
- Bachelors 45 receive average is 6,400
- Masters 57 receive average is 10,250
35Research Areas
- Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, and Acoustics
- Communications
- Computer Engineering
- Electromagnetic Fields
- Integrated Circuits and Systems
- Physical Electronics
- Power and Energy Systems
- Quantum Electronics
- Remote Sensing and Wave Propagation
- Signal Processing
- Systems and Control
36Plasma Lighting
- Panels of microcavity plasma lamps invented by
Gary Eden and Sung-Jin Park - Lamps require no ballast, reflector, or heavy
metal housing - Panels are lighter, brighter, and more efficient
than incandescent lights and are expected to
approach or surpass the efficiency of fluorescent
lighting - Flexible panel arrays could be used as
photo-therapeutic bandages to treat certain
diseases
Gary Eden and Sung-Jin Park
37Transistor Laser
- Transistor laser invented by Nick Holonyak and
Milton Feng - Uses a quantum well and a resonator in base to
control electron-hole recombination and
electrical gain - Can switch between a normal transistor and a
transistor laser - Combines functionality of a laser and a
transistor - Progressing towards developing transistor lasers
that operate at different speeds for a variety of
commercial applications
Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak
38Space Weather
- Assistant Professor Jonathan Makela installed a
narrow-field ionospheric airglow imager at Cerro
Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. - Two GPS scintillation monitors were also
installed at the site, and are used to study
ionospheric instabilities at a smaller size
scale. - Associate Professor Farzad Kamalabadi also
working to predict space weather. - Has shown the first determinations of fully,
three-dimensional temperature maps of the suns
corona. - Both projects may lead to a better understanding
space storms and could improve ability to
forecast space weather.
39Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy
(ISAM)
- Developed by Associate Professor Steve Boppart
and Assistant Professor Scott Carney, with
research associates Tyler Ralston and Daniel
Marks. - Produces crisp, three-dimensional images from
blurry, - out-of-focus data.
- Uses light from an out-of-focus image.
- Can be applied to existing hardware with minor
modifications. - Assists doctors by providing faster diagnostic
information. - Could lead to imaging large tissue volumes
without removal.
40ECE Faculty Lead The Way Via Education, Research,
Scholarship
- With over 100 members, the ECE faculty has an
unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise. - ECE faculty are hard-working, innovative, and
collegial, yet competitive. - Interdisciplinary projects can utilize Illinois
structure of collaboration and access to faculty
from other top-ranked engineering disciplines. - ECE faculty are respected by peers, serving as
editors for countless publications and receiving
frequent awards and honors. - Industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, Micron,
NVIDIA, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Toyota,
Texas Instruments, AMD, and Boeing among research
partners.
41The ECE Legacy
- A history of fundamental contributions
42SOUND ON FILM On June 9, 1922, Professor Joseph
T. Tykociner gave the first-ever demonstration of
sound on film. Tykociner produced a
variable-density sound track along one side of
the film that records the picture images,
thereby ensuring that pictures and sound would be
synchronized.
43ULTRASOUND Professor William Fry founded the
Bioacoustics Laboratory in 1946 and began
conducting pioneering research in the use of
ultrasound as a noninvasive surgical tool and a
visualization tool for diagnostics, work which
contributed to todays ultrasound imaging tools.
44TRANSISTOR In December 1947, while working at
Bell Labs, John Bardeen and colleagues William
Shockley and Walter Brattain ushered in the era
of solid state electronics with their invention
of the transistor, earning them the 1956 Nobel
Prize in physics. Bardeen served on the ECE
faculty from 1951 to 1991.
45INTEGRATED CIRCUIT While working at Texas
Instruments in 1958, alumnus Jack Kilby figured
out how to interconnect huge numbers of discrete
components economically and reliably by creating
the integrated circuit. He received the Nobel
Prize in physics in 2000 for his invention.
46LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE While working at General
Electric in 1962, alumnus Nick Holonyak developed
the first practical, visible spectrum
light-emitting diode, changing information
display and illumination forever. Holonyak has
been an ECE faculty member since 1963.
47FLAT-PANEL PLASMA DISPLAY Professors Donald
Bitzer and Gene Slottow (both of whom are also
alumni) along with student Robert Willson
invented the plasma display panel in 1964. They
received an Emmy Award for their work in 2002.