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Graduate Program Overview
Highlights
Concentration Areas
25 faculty, plus 6 research faculty 115
graduate students 55 Masters/58 PhD 35
graduate degrees/yr 8M external research
support
Applied Electrophysics
Microelectronics
Computer Engineering
Communications
www.ece.virginia.edu
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Contact Grad Director Nathan Swami
ns5h_at_virginia.edu 434-924-1390
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• Masters of Engineering
• Thirty hours of coursework
• Masters of Science
• 24 course credit hours
• 6 research credit hours
• Thesis (with an oral defense)
• Doctor of Philosophy
• 12 course credit hours (above a Masters)
• Qualifying exam
• Dissertation (with a defense)
• Minimum of one journal paper submission

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Research Program
MEMS Mixed signals
Integrated Systems (Comp. Engr.)
Micro/Nano Electronics
ECE
Signal and Image Processing
Comm./Control Systems
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Areas of Faculty Research

• Micro/Nano Electronics
• Molecular and nano electronics
• Photonics
• Laser Processing
• Terahertz devices and circuits
• Low Power Electronics
• Intelligent sensors/systems
• RF/wireless circuits
• MEMS
• Communication and Control Systems
• Signal and image processing
• Medical Diagnostic imaging/processing
• Optical and wireless communications
• Information Theory
• Adaptive and nonlinear control
• Digital and Computer Systems
• Fault-tolerant/safety-critical computing
• Embedded systems
• Mixed signal design

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3500 sq.ft. Class 10,000 Cleanroom
Molecular Beam Epitaxy System
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• Five new faculty hired within last year
• Mool Gupta Laser Processing, Photonics
• Avik Ghosh Theory and modeling of nano devices
• Ben Calhoun Low Power CMOS VLSI
• Toby Berger Information Theory
• Joe C. Campbell Photodetectors, photonics
• Major equipment upgrade for cleanroom processing
• MSENT building near completion (9/06)
• IT Building planned

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ECE Faculty Research Interests
Signal, Image and Video Processing
Scott Acton
Design Automation, Digital Systems, Test
Technology
James H. Aylor (Dean)
Microelectromechanical Systems applications in
Microwave and Millimeter circuits
N. Scott Barker
MBE, Molecular Electronics
John C. Bean
Information Theory
Toby Berger
Mixed-Signal VLSI Design, Analog CMOS signal
processing design
Travis N. Blalock
Communications Theory, Optical Communications,
Multiuser networks
Maite Brandt-Pearce
Reliability Analysis of hardware and software
fault tolerant systems
Joanne Bechta Dugan (CpE director)
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ECE Faculty Research Interests
Low Power CMOS VLSI
Benton Calhoun
Photodetectors, Photonics
Joe C. Campbell
Semiconductor device physics, device modeling
Boris Gelmont
Theory and Modeling of Nanoscopic Transport
Avik Ghosh
Laser Processing, Photonics
Mool Gupta
Electronic and Photonic materials and devices,
terahertz technology
Tatiana Globus
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ECE Faculty Research Interests
Nanofabrication, Molecular Electronics,
Nanoelectronics
Lloyd R. Harriott (Chair)
Fault Tolerant Systems, VLSI testing, VLSI
systems
Barry Johnson (Assoc. Dean)
Embedded Systems, CAD algorithms, FPGA, Processor
Architecture, Low Power
John C. Lach
Superconducting Materials and Devices
Arthur Lichtenberger
Electric Power and Machinery, Energy Conversion,
Renewable Energy
P. Paxton Marhall (Assoc. Dean)
Electronic and Biomedical applications of MEMS
Michael Reed
Low-Power VLSI, Nanoelectronics
Mircea Stan
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ECE Faculty Research Interests
Molecular Devices- Electronics, sensing,
manipulation of molecules
Nathan Swami
Adaptive Control, Nonlinear Systems, Control
Applications
Gang Tao
Networking Architectures and Protocols, Wireless
Networks, Optical Networks, Computer Architecture
Malathi Veeraraghavan
Microwave and Millimeter Wave Circuits and
radiating structures
Robert M. Weikle
Computer Design, Real time systems, VLSI
Design/testing
Ronald D. Williams
Communications and Information Theory
Stephen G. Wilson
Statistical Signal Processing, Computed Imaging
Yibin Zheng