Electrical and Computer Engineering Departmental Overview

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Electrical and Computer EngineeringDepartmental
Overview

• Prof. Mark E. Law
• Department of Electrical and Computer Eng.

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Outline

• Agenda
• Background on the Department
• State of the Department
• Changes in the last year, progress toward goals
• Challenges
• Conclusions

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Agenda Thursday

• 1200 Lunch, Registration, Welcome
• 100 Department Overview - Update on Directions
  and Issues
• 200-230 Break / Atrium
• 230-255 Toshi Nishida - Self Powered Sensors
• 255-320 Oscar Boykin - Quantum Computing
• 320-345 Jose Principe - Brain Machine
  Interfaces
• 345-410 Jian Li - Breast Cancer Detection
• 410-435 Martin Uman - Lightning and X-Rays
• 435-500 Break
• 500-700 Graduate Student Poster Session from
  Interdisciplinary Topics / Hors' D'oeuvres
• 700 Dinner

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Agenda Friday

• 800-830 Continental Breakfast
• 830-855 Jing Guo - Nanodevice Transport and
  Modeling
• 855-920 Tan Wong - Wireless Networks and
  Communications
• 920-945 Liuqing Yang - Ultrawideband
  Communications
• 945-1010 Alan George - High Performance
  Computing and Networks
• 1010-1035 Rizwan Bashirullah - Wireless
  Interface Electronics for Bio-implantable Devices
• 1035 11 Break
• 11 - 1 Graduate Student Posters from Core
  Research / Lunch
• 1-2 Wrap-up / Recommendations

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ECE Vital Statistics

• Faculty
• 46 Tenure Track Faculty and 4 Lecturers
• 14 IEEE Fellows
• 13 Assistant Professors
• 750 Undergraduates and 420 Graduate students
• 29st Best Graduate Program in US News (2005) Up
  from 31 in 2004

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Number of Students

• Grad Enrollment - More Later
• Increased Undergrad admission standards

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ECE Research Metrics
Expenditures (M)
Doubled research expenditures over four years!
Doubled publications over four years!
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Hiring Plans and Recruitment

• Target 50 faculty (nearly ten in real growth)
• 46 up from 42 one year ago
• Last Year Hires
• Rizwan Bashirullah, Electronics, NC State
• Oscar Boykin, Computing and Networks, UCLA
• Jing Guo, Devices, Purdue
• Tao Li, Computing, UT Austin
• Liuqing Yang, Communications, U Minnesota

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Strategic Goals - ECE

• Target - Double Ph.D. production department wide
• 17 and 18 Ph.D. Graduates last two years
• 2004/2005 academic year should be at 24
• Projected 40 / year at the end of 5 years
• 200 RAs and 50 TAs employed

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Strategic Goals - ECE

• Funding Metric on Ph.D.s - Achieved this Year!
• Support approximately 200 to 240 Ph.D. students
• 10 - 13M / year in external research
  expenditures
• Publications Metric on Ph.D. - Achieved this
  Year!
• 120 to 150 journal pubs / year (0.6 / year /
  Ph.D. student)
• 200 to 240 conference pubs / year (1 / year /
  Ph.D. student)
• Consistent with recruitment of 50 Ph.D. students
  / year

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Changes

• Divisions
• Ph.D. Program Enhancements
• Faculty Academic Year Salary and Teaching Load
• Recruiting Grad Students

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Computer Engineering - 13 Faculty
software  simulation services  educational
resources
grid computing middleware
results
3)
1)
software applications
2)
computing resources
Kapadia, Fortes, Lundstrom, Adabala, Figueiredo
et al
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Devices - 13 Faculty
S. Thompson, IEDM
Jerry Fossum won the 2004 J.J. Ebers Award
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Electromagnetics and Energy Systems - 9 Faculty

• Camp Blanding Triggered Lightning Facility -
  Unique in the World

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Electronics - 14 Faculty

• A 6 mm x 7 mm integrated circuit containing a
  receiver with an integrated antenna has been
  fabricated in a 0.18mm CMOS process for
  intra-chip wireless communication with the
  support of Semiconductor Research Corp. and NASA
  (Ken O)

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Signals and Systems - 15 Faculty
UF systems are integrated with MIT, SUNY, and
Plexon hardware/software and are interfaced with
primates at Duke University (Nicolelis BMI Group)

• Jian Li and Fred Taylor Named IEEE Fellows

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Ph.D. Program Enhancements

• First Year Ph.D. Students
• Department Support
• Students take heavy class loads
• Students teach / grade
• Written Exam in first year
• Undergraduate material based
• Students choose 3 of 8 undergrad areas

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Ph.D. Exam Results

• 41 attempted, 36 passed (88)
• Statistics
• Overall average was 76 of 100
• US Citizens 17 - 70.65
• International Students 24 - 80.25
• UF UG 8 - 73.19
• M.S. Degree - 76.52
• B.S. Degree - 76.13
• Small Sample - should get more rigorous in the
  future

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Faculty Teaching Load

• Teaching Assignments made on research
  productivity
• Number of grad students
• Publications
• Funding
• Academic Year buy-out reduced from 25 to 15
• Should free more dollars and time for research

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Graduate Recruiting

• National Problem
• Applications were down 36 for 04
• Visas
• Global Economy
• US Reputation

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Applicants, Admission, Enrollment, Aid

• Incoming class down 50
• Higher Yield from admits
• Did this with far fewer aid packages
• Difference in incoming class could be
  attributable to aid changes
• Fall 05 expect to have 50 financial aid offers
• Incoming Class Makeup
• BS/MS enrollment up from 5 to 18
• Ph.D. enrollment up from 36 to 40
• MS enrollment down from 99 to 36
• Fraction of enrolled/admitted is up from 1 in 6
  to 1 in 5

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Graduation Rate in 2003/4

• Total of 186 students left (91 incoming, down 95)
• Total of 16 Ph.D.s
• Half the enrollment drop was decrease in new
  students
• Half the enrollment drop was graduation increase
• Fall 2003 - we had 120 students on TA
  appointments - mostly terminal Masters

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Comparison of Graduation Rates

• Graduated 17 Ph.D. students - above last years
  total with spring to come
• Graduated 20 fewer students than last year at
  this time
• Removed most of the bubble created by paying
  Masters students - 45 returning TAs fall 2004

Summer and Fall comparison only
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Some Analysis / Conclusions

• Incoming Students
• Paying customers were flat from 03 to 04
• B.S./M.S. is picking up - advertising is helping?
• Double financial aid offers from 04 to 05
• Applications are down, most have historically
  come in Dec/Jan
• Graduation Rates
• Ph.D. graduation showing signs of increasing
• Masters graduation rate slowing - bubble has
  mostly burst

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Grad Student Stipend - Current Data

• Living Estimate for Gainesville 10,500
• 79 of 180 do not make enough to cover living
  expenses
• Some may have fellowship supplements

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New Activities

• Recruiting Coordinator
• Recruiting / Admissions Committee
• Chair - John Harris
• Staff responsible
• Exchange lists throughout SECEDHA
• Obtained Physics Lists
• Open House for B.S. / M.S. eligible
• Recruiting round-robins UCF, USF on board
• Achievement Awards - Reduced Tuition

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Conclusions

• Making good progress on research goals
• Streamlining program faculty responsibilities to
  increase research productivity
• Challenge with graduate enrollment
• Recruit harder, more effectively
• Raise stipends to competitive levels