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Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Highlights for the Power Affilliates Program

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Highlights for the Power Affilliates Program May 14, 2004 presented by Richard Blahut ECE Department Head. Some quick stats about ECE. Largest of 13 departments in College of Engineering 93 faculty 2,100 students ~1,600 undergraduates

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Highlights for the Power Affilliates Program

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  1. Electrical & Computer EngineeringDepartment Highlights for the Power Affilliates Program May 14, 2004presented by Richard Blahut ECE Department Head

  2. Some quick stats about ECE • Largest of 13 departments in College of Engineering • 93 faculty • 2,100 students • ~1,600 undergraduates • ~500 graduate students • 19,000 alumni worldwide • 150 courses: unmatched by peer institutions

  3. ECE undergraduate student enrollments • Fall 2003 • EE freshman = 174 • CompE freshman = 189 • EE all students = 849 • CompE all students = 758 • Total = 1,607 • Fall 2002 • EE = 753 CompE = 825 Total = 1,578

  4. ECE graduate student enrollments • Graduate applicants • Fall 2003 = 2,198 applicants vs. Fall 2002 = 1,905 applicants • Average GPA = 3.73 • Average GRE scores = 91%Q; 91%A; 72%V • Graduate enrollments • 555 total students vs. 563 students fall 2002

  5. US News & World Report rankings (undergraduate) Electrical Engineering program–4th • MIT • Stanford • UC-Berkeley • Illinois • Michigan Computer Engineering program–5th • MIT • Stanford • UC-Berkeley • Carnegie Mellon • Illinois

  6. EE grad program–4th MIT Berkeley Stanford Illinois Michigan GaTech CalTech + Cornell Texas Carnegie-Mellon + Purdue CompE grad program–5th MIT CMU Stanford Berkeley Illinois Michigan Princeton Texas-Austin U of Washington Cornell US News & World Report rankings (graduate)

  7. ECE faculty awards summary • American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows – 9 • American Physical Society Fellows – 10 • Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows - 5 • IEEE Fellows – 44 • IEEE Senior Member – 18 • IEEE Jack Kilby Medal – 1 • Optical Society of America Fellows – 8 • U.S. National Medal of Science – 2 • U.S. National Medal of Technology – 1 • Lemelson-MIT Prize - 1 • Japan Prize – 1 • Global Energy Intl. Prize - 1 • National Academy of Engineering – 7 • National Academy of Sciences – 2 • American Academy of Arts and Sciences – 2 • IEEE Medal of Honor - 1

  8. Power news: August blackout • George Gross, Tom Overbye, Pete Sauer interviewed extensively • Media citations include LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Sacramento Bee, Philadelphia Daily News, Washington Times, Washington Post, UPI, ABC News, CNN • Overbye on government-appointed team investigating cause of outage

  9. ECE news • 2002 National Medal of Technology • Nick Holonyak Jr., George Craford (MS-physics 1963, PhD-physics 1967), Russ Dupuis (BSEE 1970, MSEE 1971, PhD 1973) honored for development and commercialization of LEDs • Received medals at White House ceremony in November

  10. ECE news • M. Pai retirement • Power systems faculty member since 1981 • Forty-year academic career including EE head at IIT-Kanpur • Dan Hang (BSEE 1941, MSEE 1949) to receive Illinois Alumni Association Constituent Leader Award in April

  11. John Bardeen

  12. Jack Kilby

  13. Chih-Tang Sah

  14. Nick Holonyak Jr.

  15. Jerry Sanders

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