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ECE IS AWESOME!

ECE IS AWESOME!. William H. Sanders . Interim Department Head May 9, 2014. AGENDA. Campus and college updates ECE students ECE personnel ECE other updates and news . Binder. Goal: Facilitate applied research on campus and in Champaign-Urbana

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ECE IS AWESOME!

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  1. ECE IS AWESOME! William H. Sanders Interim Department Head May 9, 2014

  2. AGENDA Campus and college updates ECE students ECE personnel ECE other updates and news

  3. Binder Goal: Facilitate applied research on campus and in Champaign-Urbana Jeffrey Binder, director, joined late last year; previously associate director for nuclear science and engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; earned three degrees from Illinois Unit in COE, transitioned to Campus level over time (~5 years) $9M internal seed fund in place, with external projects just starting to ramp up Office established in Research Park ILLINOIS APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTE

  4. JUMP ARCHES LAUNCHED Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering Simulation will create joint research projects between OSF HealthCare in Peoria and Engineering at Illinois Jump replicates the patient care areas of a hospital — from the exam room to the operating room — and combines actual medical equipment and devices with state-of-the-art simulation approaches and training. Supported by $25M challenge gift from Chicago-based Jump Trading

  5. UI LABS DIGITAL MANUFACTURING In February President Obama announced a new Chicago-based public-private partnership called the Digital Lab for Manufacturing Engineering at Illinois will have a central role in the lab, which will be based at UI Labs in Chicago Funded by $70M from the US Department of Defense + more than $250 in funding from industry, academic, and other government partners Lab will develop data integration technologies for the manufacturing industry

  6. NEWS: Yahoo! broke ground on new facility in February; will be 40,000 sq. ft.; additional staff to be hired over next two years Provides an environment where technology-based businesses can work with faculty and students 100 companies and growing More than 1,400 people work in high-tech careers; more than 400 student interns EnterpriseWorks startup incubator with more than 50 companies commercializing technology; startups have raised $407 million in outside capital Multinational corporations like ADM, Abbott Laboratories, Caterpillar, John Deere, Dow Chemical, Raytheon, Riverbed, Sony, and State Farm RESEARCH PARK

  7. AGENDA Campus and college updates ECE students ECE personnel ECE other updates and news

  8. Total Students: 1,961 Computer Engineering (CompE) Majors: 791 Electrical engineering (EE) majors: 1,170 CompEand EE Incoming Freshmen Average ACT Score: 31 Number Bachelor’s Degrees Conferred, 2012-2013: 354 UNDERGRADUATES (2013-2014)

  9. PASSED ABET REVIEW WITH FLYING COLORS “ECE IS AWESOME”

  10. Total applications: 2,174 • Computer engineering (CompE) applications: 1,080 • Electrical engineering applications:1,094 Total admits: 1,098 • CompE admits:456 • EE admits: 642 Average ACT Score for admits: 33 UNDERGRADUATE NUMBERS FOR FALL 2014

  11. Total Students: 494 For 2012-2013: - 88 Master’s Degrees Conferred- 61 PhD Degrees Conferred GRADUATE STUDENTS (2013-2014)

  12. GRADUATE NUMBERS FOR FALL 2014 Total applicants: 1,897 (230 domestic) As of March 12, 171 offers sent out (offers are made until April 15) 151 of these offered TA or RA Expect as many as 250 offers to be made Graduate recruitment event held in February Two-day event featuring faculty presentations, current student panel, tours 21 students attended

  13. INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS • Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam: A 2+2 program was established with the electrical engineering program in December 16, 2013. • Ho Chi Minh City International University, Vietnam: Course articulations pending for a 2+2 program established at the college level. Two students from HCMUI applied for junior-level transfer to ECE ILLINOIS for Fall 2014. • Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: Course articulations pending for an exchange agreement. • Illinois-Zhejiang University: plans for a pilot start in Fall 2014.

  14. AGENDA Campus and college updates ECE students ECE personnel ECE other updates and news Discussion

  15. FACULTY AND STAFF NUMBERS (as of February 2014) Total Faculty head count: 96 • Tenure track faculty head count: 84 • FTE: 75.9 • Lecturer head count: 12 • FTE: 12 State-funded support staff head count: 36 • Academic professional head count : 12 • FTE: 11 • Civil service head count : 24 • FTE: 23.75 Non-State funded support staff head count : 21 Visiting lecturer head count: 9 • FTE: 5.96 Total head count : 162

  16. Wu Hanumolu Gong Roy Choudhury Haran Varshney Zhu TENURE TRACK FACULTY ADDITIONS 2013-2014 Kiruba Haran, SP 2014, electrical machines LavVarshney, SP 2014, communications Hao Zhu, SP 2014, power and energy Yihong Wu, SP 2013, information theory Pavan Kumar Hanumolu, FA 2013, circuits Songbin Gong, FA 2013, radio frequency communications Romit Roy Choudhury, FA 2013, wireless networking and mobile computing

  17. 2014 ECE TENURE TRACK FACULTY HIRING PLAN • COE Approved ECE Slots (7) • CompE • Bioinformatics/systems biology • Beyond CMOS devices • THz circuits and systems • CompE/complex data analysis and decision making • CompE/scalable computer systems • Photonics • Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative chairs: Big Data, Bioengineering • Need not formally apply for consideration • Blue Waters professors • TOPS – provides additional slots

  18. AGENDA Campus and college updates ECE students ECE personnel ECE other updates and news

  19. “For development and commercialization of micro-plasma technologies and excimer lasers” Eden is an ECE alumnus, earning his PhD in 1976 Also a fellow of AAAS, APS, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE EDEN ELECTED TO NAE

  20. Frederick A. Kish Jr. (BSEE ’88, MSEE ’89, and PhD ’92) • “For contributions to high-brightness light-emitting diodes” • Senior VP at Infinera Corporation • Advised by Nick Holonyak Jr. Daniel E. Atkins III (MSEE ’67) • “For leadership in development of radix algorithms and cybertechnical collaborative systems.” • Professor, University of Michigan TWO ALUMS JOIN NAE Kish Atkins

  21. Created by Scott Carney, Andy Singer, and Naresh Shanbhag Inaugural semester features 6 talks • Gary Eden, Feb. 1 • Andy Singer and Michael Oelze, Feb. 15 • Naresh Shanbhag, Mar. 1 • Xiuling Li, Mar. 15 • Rashid Bashir, Apr. 5 • Elyse Rosenbaum, Apr. 19 SATURDAY ENGINEERING FOR EVERYONE

  22. ANDREW YANG AWARD Graduate student Paul Froeter and Associate Professor Xiuling Li are first recipients of Andrew Yang Research Award Yang, an alumnus and founder of Apache Design Solutions, established award with $1M gift Froeter and Li developing self-rolling microtubes that could guide and expedite generation of cortical neurons

  23. FIRE SENSOR SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT XXXX Andri Teneqexhi, Lauren White, and Hyun Yi Designed and tested with Illinois Fire Institute device that warns firefighters when temperatures become dangerous Received highest class accolade, Instructor’s Award Good media coverage, too

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