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OUTLINE

• Western Engineering

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Power Systems Engineering Program

• Collaborative Opportunities

• Discussions

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Western

• Ranked as one of top three Canadian Universities
  by Macleans
• Flexibility and creativity of programs
  concurrent degrees
• Highly interdisciplinary programs
• Attractive campus with excellent facilities
• Ranked as one of top ten research intensive
  universities in Canada

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Western has 150,000,000 in annual research
funding.
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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
MECHANICAL AND MATERIALS
CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
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ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERING

• RESEARCH GROUPS
• Robotics and Control System
• Power Systems
• VLSI and DSP
• Applied Electrostatics and Electromagnetics
• Information Engineering
• BioMedical

GRADUATE STUDENTS
PhD 61 full-time
Masters (M.E.Sc.) 62 full-time
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ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERING
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY

• R. V. Patel - Fellow IEEE, Fellow IEE
  Fellow ASME

• I. I. Inculet - Life Fellow IEEE

• T. S. Sidhu - Fellow IEEE Fellow IEE

• G.S.P. Castle - Fellow IEEE

• W.D.Greason - Fellow IEEE

• Jin Jiang NSERC-UNENE Senior Industry
  Research Chair in
• Control and Instrumentation in Nuclear Power
  Plants

• R.K. Varma - R. Mohan Mathur Award for
  Excellence in Teaching
• UWO- USC Teaching Honour Roll Awards of
  Excellence 2002-2003 and 2001-2002

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Robotics and Control Group
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ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERING

• Robotics and Control
• Lab Facilities
• Robotics and Real-Time Systems Laboratory
• Visualization and Virtual Reality Laboratory
• Distributed Intelligent Systems Laboratory
• Mobile Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory

• Research Funding
• Total Funds over the last five years amounts to
  over 5.5 million
• 17 million in funding recently received from
  Canadian
• Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
• 2 million received in funding for the
  development of new
• control and instrumentation for nuclear
  plants
• Two members of group are project leaders on two
  infra-structure
• proposals amounting to over 2.3 million

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Robotics and Control Group

• Important Areas of strength
• Development of motion planning and control
  strategies for
• robots using conventional and intelligent
  techniques like Fuzzy
• logic and Neural Network
• Virtual Reality and 3D graphics-based multi
  robot simulation
• environments.
• Design of control techniques based on smart
  materials for
• robotics systems with flexibility in their
  joints and links.

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Robotics and Control Group

• Important Areas of strength (contd)
• Design and control of robotic systems for
  minimally invasive
• surgery and therapy
• Software development for embedded and real-time
  control
• systems
• Distributed control systems over Networks
• Fault tolerant control of spacecrafts

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ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Robotics and Control
Macro Micro Manipulator Smaller robot mounted
on a larger platform
11 Degrees of Freedom (DOF) Manipulator
Built in collaboration with McGill University
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VLSI and DSP Group
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VLSI and DSP Group

• Important Areas of strength
• System Level
• Numerous VLSI applications such as DSP,
  Cryptography,
• telecommunication, image processing and
  digital control systems.
• Circuit Design
• Development of high-speed and low-power VLSI
  circuits for
• very-deep submicron and nanoscale
  technologies.
• Nanoelectronics and Photonic devices
• Investigation of Nanoscale devices such as
  carbon nanotube,
• quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), and
  single electron transistor
• (SET). Design and fabrication of photonic
  crystal active light sources
• and detectors.

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VLSI and DSP Group

• Important Areas of strength (contd)
• Device Design and Simulation
• Design and simulation of various structures
  of the scaled MOSFET
• transistor using 2D device simulators to
  sustain the growth and
• performance of CMOS-based digital circuits.
• Speech and Audio Signal Processing
• Development of speech and audio processing
  algorithms for
• Audiology and Speech Language Pathology
  applications
• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Cross-disciplinary emerging area of research.
  Development of DSP
• and noise reduction algorithms for the
  analysis of EEG signals and
• MRI data.

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VLSI and DSP Group

• Collaborations and Industry Links
• VLSI research group at North-western University
• Nano research group at University of Calgary
• Nanofabrication facility at UWO
• Robarts Research Institute
• National Center for Audiology
• Ryerson University
• DSP factory Ltd., Waterloo

• Research facility
• Test and Evaluation Boards (TEBs) based on the
  C6701 and C6416 DSP
• chips, Network and Video Development Kit
  (NVDK) and Code Composer
• Studio (CCS) integrated software development
  environment
• DSP development boards based on 225MHz floating
  point TMS320C6713
• PC with Matlab, FPGA software for VLSI DSP
  prototype designs and
• Cadence tools

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Applied Electrostatics and Electromagnetics Group
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APPLIED ELECTROSTATICS AND ELECTROMAGNETICS GROUP
Important Areas of Strength

• Applied Electrostatics

• Electromagnetics

• Electrostatic Discharge

• Gas Discharges and Electrohydrodynamics

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ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Applied Electrostatics and Electromagnetics R
esearch Funding

• Several NSERC Strategic Grants

• NATO Collaborative Research Grants

Collaborations and Industry Links

• INCO

• Ciba-Geigy (Switzerland)

• Ontario Hydro

• Blue Circle Industries (U.K.)

• Toyota Motor Manufacturing (Canada)

• GM Research

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Information Engineering
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INFORMATION ENGINEERING GROUP
Important Areas of Strength

• Software Engineering

• Cooperative Intelligent System

• Communications and Networking

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ELECTRICAL and COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Information Engineering Lab Facilities

• 28 million Advanced Technology Centre

• 750,000 laboratory from CISCO in 2002

Collaborations and Industry Links

• Mackenzie Financial Corporation and CFI

• NRC-IMTI

• IBM Toronto

• University of Waterloo

• Motorola Toronto

• University of Guelph

• Liberate/London

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Biomedical Group
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Biomedical Research Group

• Highly interdisciplinary
• Active collaboration with other departments and
  research
• centres on campus.
• Faculty members include active researchers at
  the Robarts
• Research Institute, Lawson Health Research
  Institute,
• Dept. of Medical Physics and the Faculty of
  Health Sciences

Important Areas of strength Surgical
Techniques and Robotics
The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is the
first in the world to perform a coronary
bypass operation on the beating heart using
minimally-invasive intercosal ports and
tele-robotic equipment.
Further research into the development of 3D
interactive visualization with the goal of
optimizing the presentation of visual and haptic
information for telesurgical procedures.
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Biomedical Research Group

• Important Areas of strength (contd)
• Medical Imaging and Registration
• Exploring a number of approaches including
  efficient search methods,
• statistical combination and classification,
  maximum entropy methods
• etc. for generating accurate images.
• BioPhysical Modeling and Simulation
• Development of novel robust Magnetic Resonance
  Elastography
• (MRE) reconstruction techniques. Long term
  goal is to create a flexible
• ultrasonic imaging simulator.
• Software Development and Applications
• Several projects currently underway that deal
  with improving the run-
• time efficiency and fidelity of simulation
  and registration algorithms.

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Biomedical Research Group

• Research facility
• Equipment and software purchases amounting to
  over 1.71 million.
• Whitaker Foundation Grant for Biomedical
  Engineering 1.4 million
• - This grant forms the foundation for a
  programme to attract new grad students
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation (3.1
  million)
• Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund
  (3.1 million)
• Formation of a research centre C-STAR UWO
  RRI London Health Center

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Biomedical Research Group

• Collaborations and Industry Links
• Dept. of Medical Biophysics and Anatomical
  Pathology, Sunnybrook
• London Regional Cancer Institute
• National Centre for Audiology
• US Army
• Robarts Research Institute
• NRC - IMTI

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Power Systems Group
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POWER SYSTEM GROUP
Major Areas of Research

• Power System Protection

• Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)
  Control, Placement and Coordination

• Computer based Relaying

• Nuclear Power Plant Control and Instrumentation

• Design and Implementation of Soft Switched
  Power ac/dc Electronic Converters and
  alternative sources of energy

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POWER SYSTEM GROUP
FACULTY Tarlochan Singh Sidhu Jin
Jiang Rajiv K. Varma Gerry Moschopoulos
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POWER SYSTEM GROUP
Laboratory Facilities

• Real Time Digital Simulators (RTDS) two racks

• Nuclear Power Plant Simulator

• Real Time Playback (RTP) Simulator

• State of the Art Power System Protection
  Laboratory with a host of
• modern protective relays.

• Commercial grade software packages
• (EMTDC/PSCAD, PSS/E, Powertech Lab
  software)

• Design and Implementation Facilities for FACTS
  Controllers and
• Power Electronic Converters/Conditioners

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POWER SYSTEM GROUP
Collaborations and Industry Links

• Hydro One Instituted Hydro One Chair
• Undergraduate scholarships
• Graduate scholarships

• NSERC-UNENE Senior Industrial Research Chair

• Schweitzer Engineering Labs, USA Made an
  in-kind contribution of US
• 300,000 for research

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POWER SYSTEM GROUP

• RTDS Technologies, Winnipeg Provided in-kind
  hardware/software
• contribution of 188,000

• General Electric Multilin, Markham, Ontario A
  grant of 250,000
• for collaborative research

• Texas Instruments, Dallas, USA Provided digital
  signal processing
• boards, worth about US 50,000

• CITO and Utilismart collaborative research

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POWER SYSTEM GROUP
Undergraduate Program Power Option Graduate
Program Post Doctoral Fellows 4 Ph.D.
Students 12 Masters Students 15
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THANK YOU !Faculty of EngineeringThe
University of Western OntarioLondon, Ontario,
Canadawww.eng.uwo.ca
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