ECE Illinois Overview

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ECE Illinois Overview

• Brad Petersen
• Assistant Director of Communications
• Fall 2007

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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
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The 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
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Administration

• 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

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This 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
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University 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
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University 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
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Weve 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)

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Engineering at Illinois
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12 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

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College 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
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Major 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
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Over 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

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Grainger 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
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US 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

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Undergraduate 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)

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Graduate 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)

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The Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
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ECE 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

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ECE 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
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Depth and Breadth
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Well-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

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Alumni Distribution
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Staff

• ECE staff includes 70 academic professionals and
  hourly employees.
• The average length of tenure is 9 years.

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ECE 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

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ECE Graduate Students

• Total students 560
• For 2005-2006
• 125 Masters degrees conferred
• 53 PhD degrees conferred

As of 9-07
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Educating 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.

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ECE 110

• As freshmen, all ECE students take ECE 110, an
  introductory course that provides an overview of
  the discipline.

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ECE 444

• Students in ECE 444 theory and fabrication of
  integrated circuit devices spend time working in
  the yellow glow of the Fab Lab.

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ECE 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.

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Why 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.

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Student 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

• From ECS, 2005-2006

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Student 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

• From ECS, 2005-2006

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Research 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

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Plasma 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
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Transistor 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
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Space 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.

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Interferometric 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.

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ECE 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.

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The ECE Legacy

• A history of fundamental contributions

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SOUND 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.
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ULTRASOUND 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.
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TRANSISTOR 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.
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INTEGRATED 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.
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LIGHT-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.
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FLAT-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.