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Advisory Board

Christa Petros Industry Advisory Board (IAB) Chair VP Product Development, Sirius XM Radio Eliecer Viamontes Industry Advisory Board (IAB) Vice Chair FP&L, Area Manager, Boca Raton Operations Bob Helsby Director of Business Development, ANSYS Corp.

Chris Van Hoof, PhD Director, Heterogeneous Integrated Systems Department – IMEC, Belgium David Minasi Senior Director and Fellow of the Technical Staff – Motorola Mobility LLC Chris Day CEO, Chymera-Group, LLC

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Alumni Update

FIU and FPL unveil one-of-a-kind solar research facility

High-tech tools for the neurologist

Protecting the nation’s power grid from cyber attacks

Fred Martin Co-Founder and CEO, Sunrise Micro Devices Henry Chang Senior Staff in the Antenna Products Division, Northup Grumman Aerospace Systems

Fast-growing cybersecurity program probes ‘ethical hacking’

Marco Pravia, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, BAE Systems Technology Solutions Pamela Galban National Accounts Manager, Government Education – Verizon Wireless Peter Lego President, BrickMed Robert Villanueava ASTSAIC, US Secret Service James Wood NASA Chief Engineer, NASA Kennedy Space Center Joey Ooi Director, Motorola Solutions Jose Palma Florida Power & Light Khalid Barazanji, PhD ACE Branch Chief, United States Army Aeromedical Research Lab

Senior Design and Cyber Conference

Students excel in computer and electrical engineering

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Faculty Highlights/Awards

Professors in electrical & computer engineering work in a wide variety of areas

Marco Midon Electronics Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Krishna Vedala CSO, CarePredict Lorenzo Ponce de Leon Motorola Dan Noble fellow Ryan Bobryk Account Manager, ANSYS Corp.

Sal Pazhoor President & CEO, Naztec Victor Oppleman President, Packet Forensics Vikram Kapoor, PhD Courtesy Professor, University of Central Florida

Professors at FIU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are highly qualified in their profession, having a significant impact through highlights in their career

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Student breakdown, rankings, research, and more

Wladimiro Villarroel, PhD Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

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Welcome The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing continues to amaze me at the progress students and faculty have made in research and innovation.

Collaborative relationships with industry have continued to foster new opportunities for faculty and students. In one especially powerful example, made possible through the efforts of Professor Arif Sarwat, Florida Power & Light (FPL) designated FIU as its primary partner in solar energy research. The utility company installed a first-of-its-kind 1.5 megawatt solar research facility at the FIU Engineering Center.

Under the leadership of Professor Osama Mohammed, researchers from FIU’s ECE department have teamed up with four other universities and a utility company to help safeguard the nation’s power utilities from cyber attacks. The center’s researchers will address vulnerabilities and challenges in delivery systems of the U.S. power grid. Their goal is to protect hardware assets, make systems less susceptible to cyber attacks and provide reliable delivery of power if such an attack were to occur.

Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D. Alcatel-Lucent Professor and Chair Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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The growth and accomplishments of the department would be unimaginable without the unwavering support and dedication that our faculty, students, advisors, alumni and staff demonstrate on a daily basis across the university. I invite you to read about the accomplishments, work and activities taking place within the department and hope that you too will come to understand the value of what we do here.

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Research

FIU and F P L unveil one-of-a-kind

by Millie Acebal solar research facility

FIU President Mark. B Rosenberg and FPL leaders introduce an innovative solar research facility.

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IU and Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) unveiled a new commercial-scale solar installation at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing – the only solar research facility of its kind that FPL has installed at a Florida university.

The 1.4-megawatt solar array is comprised of more than 4,400 solar panels on canopy-like structures that provide clean electricity to FPL’s grid and shade for about 400 parking spaces. The unique solar array incorporates a 24-foot by 12-foot FIU logo that is visible from high above.

Through a five-year research grant, faculty and students are analyzing data from the on-site solar panels to understand the impacts of intermittent solar power on the electric grid in South Florida’s tropical climate.

The researchers will also look at historic weather patterns and develop predictive models to forecast the reliability of solar power generation.

“This research project builds on our long-standing relationship with FPL,” said FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg. “We’re engaging in groundbreaking, problem-solving research to address the challenges of

our region and beyond. Our students will get hands-on experience and see how the research they conduct in the lab will have an impact in the real world – gaining skills that will help them compete for high tech 21st century jobs. This solar power facility is a win-win for FIU, FPL, and our community.”

FPL is the state’s largest generator of solar energy and operates three utility-scale, or universal, solar plants in Florida. The company is constructing three new 74.5-megawatt solar energy centers that will costeffectively triple its solar capacity by the end of 2016.

“We work hard every day to deliver our customers electricity that is among the cleanest and most reliable in the county for a price well below the national average,” said Eric Silagy, president and CEO of FPL. “Through this innovative partnership, we will continue to make our energy infrastructure even smarter. The faculty and students working on this project are contributing to our state’s energy future – a future that includes more solar power.”

FIU researchers are looking closely at Florida’s climate as part of their research.

“Solar power depends on the sun for fuel and with South Florida’s tropical weather conditions the amount of sun can vary greatly from one moment to the next,” said Arif Sarwat, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who serves as director of the FIU and FPL Solar Research Facility and EPS. “In Florida, where sunshine can vary moment to moment, our team is researching how intermittent power generation impacts the grid with an eye toward a better understanding of how to best leverage solar power.”

For more than three decades, FPL and FIU have partnered on various projects. In addition to hundreds of FPL employees who are FIU alumni, the energy company runs an on-campus customer care training center where students answer calls from customers. FPL also donated an electric vehicle from its clean fleet to FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing to further research and test wireless charging technology.

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High-tech tools for the neurologist

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alek Adjouadi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of FIU’s Center for Advanced Technology and Education, and his team have created a number of tools to help physicians pinpoint damaged areas in the brain and optimize surgical outcomes.

To better understand and treat epilepsy, the researchers designed computer software that analyzes the data from electroencephalograms, or EEGs, which take electrical readings from several places along the skull.

Much like a seismograph measures earthquake waves, the EEG detects the subtle “spike waves” in the brain that could guide the process for locating source of seizures, information that can be used for surgical planning or for MRI-guided therapeutic interventions. The software can both calculate from where the seizures are originating, based on the readings from several electrodes, and accurately trigger the MRI at the opportune time.

“When the detected spike happens, we trigger the MRI to take a picture of the brain in 3-D,” Adjouadi said. “So now we have two modalities telling us exactly the same location that is causing the seizure, and doctors are reassured that the action they will take in surgery is the correct one,” he said. The same protocol holds promise for some patients presenting with depression.

Other collaborations in which Adjouadi is involved include examining ways to potentially stop or slow down the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in its earliest manifestation through interventions using a transcranial magnetic stimulator. Acquired with the support of the National Science Foundation, the equipment, located in Adjouadi’s campus lab, is the first in the state and performs brain stimulation as a curative intervention for patients with various neurological disorders.

The research on wireless brain stimulation by Professor Khizroev at FIU

was included in the list of top “100 Science Stories of Year 2015” by Discover

Magazine. The top stories were selected from hundreds of thousands

disciplines including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, paleontology, anthropology, and many others in 2015. The story, #48, titled “Remote controlled brain,” was dedicated to work by two independent teams, FIU and MIT, respectively. The two teams offered two alternative approaches to

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Protecting the nation’s power grid from cyber attacks

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Researchers from FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have teamed up with four other universities and a utility company to help safeguard the nation’s power utilities from cyber attacks.

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cyber attack on any part of the nation’s power grid could leave millions of people without power, resulting in serious health and safety threats as well as a major economic blow,” said Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Osama Mohammed, who is leading the team of FIU researchers. “Working together, we hope to reduce the vulnerability of our power grid and ensure the security of our energy delivery systems for the future.”

The researchers from the different universities are working together as part of the DoE Center for Securing Electric Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS), made possible by a $12.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy, augmented by $3.1 million in matching funds from the research participants.

In the first half of Fiscal Year 2015, the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), part of the Department of Homeland Security, responded to 108 cyber incidents impacting critical infrastructure in the United States. As in previous years, the energy

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Associated FIU Faculty include: eArif Sarwat eKemal Akkaya eA. Selcuk Uluagac eAlexander Pons

The FIU team will be involved in aspects of the project that include protection of core power grid controls and operations by building security and privacy protection into components and services that include micro-grid assets, smart metering and electric vehicles; protecting the communications infrastructure and providing security management capabilities to address operations beyond human capacity; and providing security testing and validation to evaluate the effectiveness of protective measures on the FIU Energy Systems Research Laboratory’s Smart Grid Test Bed in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the College of Engineering and Computing.

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The center’s researchers will address vulnerabilities and challenges in delivery systems of the U.S. power grid. Their goal is to protect hardware assets, make systems less susceptible to cyber attacks and provide reliable delivery of power if such an attack were to occur.

sector led all others with the most reported incidents.

The National Security Agency also reported that it has seen intrusions into industrial control systems used in the electrical grid by entities with the apparent technical capability “to take down control systems that operate U.S. power grids,” according to the “Cybersecurity Issues for the Bulk Power System” congressional report.

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Educational Enhancement

Fast-growing cybersecurity program probes ‘ethical hacking’ ’

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ndrew De La Rosa was an FIU undergraduate studying computer engineering when he enrolled in an elective course with a beguiling name: Ethical Hacking.

The course, taught by Professor Alexander Pons, teaches students how to expose vulnerabilities in computer systems without actually breaking in. “In order to protect, you need to know how to compromise,” Pons explained.

“When you want to protect your home, you don’t look for a police officer. You look for a crook who knows how to get in and build your defenses around that.”

Ethical Hacking has become one of the College of Engineering and Computing‘s most popular classes, regularly drawing more than 100 students, including online students from other universities. It’s one of more than two dozen classes in cybersecurity taught at FIU by a dozen professors in fields as varied as criminal justice, business and international policy, not to mention computer science and engineering. In just a few years, cybersecurity has quietly grown into a major university-wide initiative, driven by an insatiable demand from industry.

“Cybersecurity is the need of the hour,” said Shekhar Bhansali, chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). “Our cybersecurity classes are a pragmatic mix that start with foundations and go on to handson applications and real-world examples.”

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Community Engagement

Senior Design

Students of FIU’s Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering demonstrated all the skills and knowledge they have obtained throughout their undergraduate education at Senior Design Day. From designing their project from fall of their senior year to the execution of it at the end of spring, these students got to showcase all of their hard work to their family, friends and members of the community that come to watch the demonstration of these projects.

Throughout their senior year, the students met up in their respective teams to plan and create the blue print of their designs. They later started implementing all the

planning in the second semester up until Senior Design Day. Industry advisors gave them feedback on their work and provided thoughts that might have not occurred to students. Through this process, they were able to learn from their mentors, such as the faculty who enabled them to grow throughout their projects.

The collaboration that this project creates among the students is probably one of the most important things the student goes through, and the culmination is Senior Design Day.

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Due to unprecedented cyber attacks, questions have arisen over the cyberthreats from abroad. The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering understands the importance of cybersecurity, which is why Ethical Hacking has become one of the college’s most popular class. Because of this, the department hosted a Trends in CyberSecurity Conference. The learning objectives where for people to understand the potential threats to their networks, and obtain knowledge to safeguard data, and also learn where digital security efforts are headed.

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Alumni Update

Worlds Ahead grad excels in computer engineering

by Millie Acebal By age 20, Fan had graduated with her bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, and President Mark B. Rosenberg named her a Worlds Ahead graduate.

“Jolene is a natural team leader with a great personality and charisma,” said Gustavo Roig, professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. “She is very disciplined with a strong logical mind.”

During her sophomore year, Fan met fellow student Pedro Cordon ’14 in a math class. The two became close, recently married, and relocated to the West Coast where they both work today.

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Fan continued her graduate studies online, earning

olene Fan moved across the country when she was only 16 to study computer engineering at FIU. Today she is making waves at a major American insurance company.

her master’s degree in computer engineering with a

Fan traded Southern California for South Florida because she wanted to study at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing, where her father, Jeffrey Fan, had been a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. While most teens are just getting their driver’s licenses, she was launching her college career.

Fan recently won the Rising Women in Technology

“I had Jolene for three courses. And she was in the top of the class in all three. Not only that, but she was a leader in the class, and other students would go to her for guidance and assistance,” said Herman Watson, undergraduate program director in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

“She is self-motivated, and goes beyond what is asked.”

focus in network security. During the latter half of the program, she got her first job as a mainframe developer at Pacific Life Insurance Company.

Award from Advancing Women in Technology, an organization that furthers the professional development of women in technology.

“Jolene’s success is our success, and we are extremely proud of her professional accomplishments,” said Shekhar Bhansali, AlcatelLucent professor and chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department within the College of Engineering and Computing. “She exemplifies the type of student we strive to cultivate in our department – hard-working, driven and a critical thinker who then graduates and goes on to make an impact locally and national.”

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Graduate Student Achievement This year, Emmanuel Stimphil, an ECE Ph.D. candidate and an NIGMSRISE fellow won a prestigious award given by the IEEE Magnetic Society.

Supervised by Sakhrat Khizroev, Emmanuel was one of 85 graduate students worldwide selected to attend the IEEE Magnetic Summer School held at the University of Tohoku, Sendai, Japan to present his outstanding research in treating cancer with nanotechnology.

Emmanuel is the first FIU graduate ttudent to win this prestigious award. In Japan, he was given the opportunity to attend lectures by international experts in the field of magnetics to learn about the extraordinary research being done all over the world, and the great impact it will have on society.

Currently, Emmanuel is at FIU continuing his research in treating cancer using nanotechnology and combining what he has learned from attending the IEEE Magnetic Society summer school. He is making improvements to his research with the hope of bringing society one step closer to treating cancer with nanotechnology.

Employment of Graduates Throughout their time at FIU, students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering participate in hands-on projects and learn the value of collaboration. Coupled with their classroom training, such experiences provide a solid foundation on which to build successful careers. Our alumni go on to work at leading companies throughout the country and abroad. Here is a selected list of organizations that hire our graduates: Boeing CarePredict, Inc. Chrysler DOCOMO Innovations Florida Power & Light General Electric Johnson & Johnson Lutron Electronics NASA National Security Agency Naval Air Systems Command – Aircraft Division (NAVAIR) NAVSEA SMC Corp.

State Farm Tesla Motors Ultimate Software

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Faculty Research Interests Malek Adjouadi, Ph.D.

Center for Advanced Technology and Education (CATE) Lab Focus is on brain research with neuroscience applications and assistive technology research with a focus on visual impairment and motor disability

Wilmer Arellano

Robotics, Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) and swarm intelligence

Kemal Akkaya, Ph.D.

Advanced Wireless and Sensor Networking (ADWISE) Research Lab Wireless and network security, privacy in cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things and ad hoc networks

Jean Andrian, Ph.D.

Digital signal processing in communications, theory and application of wavelets to stochastic process and cognitive radio and SDR

Ou Bai, Ph.D.

Human Cyber-Physical Systems Lab Cyber-physical systems on robotic/prosthetic optimization/control, smart and connected health research on in home rehab, sensors and real-time sensing

Armando Barreto, Ph.D.

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Lab Real-time implementation of digital processing algorithms in specialized DSP chips and the development of innovative DSP algorithms for the processing of specific signals

Shekhar Bhansali, Ph.D., Department Chair

Bio-MEMS & Microsystems Lab Application of micro/nanotechnology and engineering to address challenges in the area of biomedical sensors

Amaury Caballero, Ph.D.

Electrical communication, control systems and construction management

Mercedes Cabrerizo, Ph.D.

Center for Advanced Technology and Education (CATE) Lab Focus is on brain research with neuroscience applications and assistive technology research with a focus on visual impairment and motor disability

Irene Calizo, Ph.D.

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Radar sensor networks, MIMO radar, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), adaptive signal processing, biomedical signal processing, computational electromagnetics, and VLSI design

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Ahmed Ibrahim Mohammed, Ph.D.

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Stavros Georgakopoulos, Ph.D.

ElectroMagnetics Lab (EMLab) Wireless power transfer, novel antennas, wearable antennas, antenna mutual coupling analysis, RFID, reconfigurable and miniaturized antennas Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, HetNets, small cells, wi-fi offloading, in-device coexistence, millimeter wave, D2D and M2M

Sakhrat Khizroev, Ph.D.

Center for Personalized NanoMedicine (CPNM) Lab Multi-functional nanoparticles to enable personalized nanomedicine

Grover Larkins, Ph.D.

Future Aerospace Science and Technology Center for Space Cryoelectronics R&D of cryogenic communications systems intended for space-based applications

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Osama Mohammed, Ph.D.

Energy Systems Research Lab Research aimed at solving the smart grid operation and its communication puzzle for the utility industry and customer based systems

Nezih Pala, Ph.D.

Integrated Nanosystems Research (INSYST) Lab Terahertz science and technologies, integrated nanostructures for energy harvesting and storage, integrated biosensors, and free space optical communication

Alex Pons, Ph.D.

Cyber Security Lab Addresses challenges associated with cyber security in the form of vulnerability assessment, digital forensics, malware analysis to support research/education in solving security challenges

Gang Quan, Ph.D.

Advanced Real-Time and Computing Systems (ARC) Lab Real-time computing systems, power/thermal-aware design, electronic design automation, advanced computing architecture and reconfigurable computing

Gustavo Roig, Ph.D.

Primary interest is within undergraduate education. Currently coordinating the use of NI myDAQ in Circuit Analysis and Electronics I and II

Arif I. Sarwat, Ph.D.

Energy, Power & Sustainability (EPS) Lab Addresses challenges in energy, power, environment and policymaking; design and develop inventive solutions to train the next generation of professionals

Atoussa Tehrani, Ph.D.

Computer architecture, embedded systems hardware and software design, data communications and computer networks

A. Selcuk Uluagac, Ph.D.

Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab (CSL) Security for cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, security for critical infrastructure networks, wireless and mobile device security, big data structure

Frank Urban, Ph.D.

Graduate and undergraduate education

Yuri Vlasov, Ph.D.

Herman Watson, Ph.D.

Embedded systems, C++ and STL, ARM, wxWidgets, and biomedical sensors, applications and systems

Wujie Wen, Ph.D.

Emerging memory, VLSI circuit/chip design and computer architecture, hardware acceleration (Neuromorphic computing) and hardware security

Subbarao Wunnava, Ph.D.

Data communications, integrated services digital network, asynchronous transfer mode, microchip design, VLSI, HDL and VHDL Director of international program development

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Experimental research in solid state physics, nanotechnology, MEMS and sensors

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Faculty Highlights/Awards Dr. Stavros named Worlds Ahead Faculty Dr. Stavros V. Georgakopoulos has been recognized with a President’s Council Worlds Ahead Faculty Award, the highest honor that FIU extends to a faculty member. The prize highlights the contributions of individuals who excel in every aspect of their work, including teaching, mentorship, research and service.

In his eight years at FIU, Dr. Stavros has distinguished himself through collaborative research that should lead to the discovery of novel electromagnetic technologies that integrate across traditional boundaries between engineering, science and medicine to yield important societal benefits. His lab focuses on wireless powering of implantable and wearable medical devices as well as reconfigurable, “origami-style� folding antennas that will have a significant impact on nextgeneration airborne and spaceborne communication systems. His investigations are creating an entirely new research area called origami electromagnetics.

His pioneering research and his inventions have attracted national and international attention.

His external research funding totals $2.5 million, and he continues to help raise the profile of the university and the college.

Arif Sarwat receives NSF CAREER Award Professor Arif Sarwat is the fourth ECE professor in one year to receive an NSF CAREER Award. His research brings a holistic vision of the future smart grid as a synergistic integration of its various components with novel computational tools for forecasting and intelligent load sharing with distributed energy storage.

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The study collects real-time photovoltaic (PV) data from the plant, conducts high-end modeling, analysis and visualization on various datasets to understand, predict and mitigate the system instabilities and fluctuations triggered by PV intermittencies. This solution can be used in the planning process at the command and control centers for power utilities.

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Shekhar Bhansali elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction. Academic inventors and innovators elected to the rank of NAI Fellow are nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to innovation in areas such as patents and licensing, innovative discovery and technology, significant impact on society, and support and enhancement of innovation.

With more than 24 patents, Bhansali is the third faculty member from the college to receive this honor. He joins Sakhrat Khizroev, professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Ram Iyengar, director of the School of Computing & Information Sciences, who were inducted in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

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ECE Fast Facts STUDENT POPULATION RANKINGS

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Best Online Graduate Engineering

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RESEARCH EXPENDITURES

$3,907,712.20

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RESEARCH THRUST AREAS • Cybersecurity • Communications • Energy • Signal Processing • VLSI Design • NanoMedicine • Nanotechnology • Embedded Systems • Internet of Things (IoT) • Smart Infrastructure • BioMEMS • Human Cyber Physical Systems

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