As part of our mission, we perform research in many diverse areas within the
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) disciplines. However, to better serve
our local constituents, we view the following research and education areas
to be the major areas within which the department will grow within the next
few years.
Computer Architecture and CAD: computer arithmetic, re-configurable architecture, VLSI, and CAD
Knowledge Engineering and Management: database, data mining, and mobility issues in transaction processing
Software Engineering - object orientation, reliability, testing, safety, and metrics
Trusted & High Performance Network Computing - fault tolerance, mobile computing, network security and reliability, parallel processing, and wireless networks
The Department of Electrical Engineering is building peaks of excellence in
the research areas of communications and signal processing, and micro/opto-electronics.
Signal applications to wireless communications
Mobile software agents: security and network applications
Low-cost electronically beam-steering micro-strip array antenna
for mobile satellite communication
Key frame selection and error resilient coding for scalable video
High-speed network traffic modeling and prediction with artificial
neural networks
Intelligent systems for power system load and price forecasting
in deregulated markets
Grating outcoupled lasers for telecommunications
High-power coherent arrays of vertical cavity surface-emitting
semiconductor
lasers
Multichannel VLSI system for sensing and stimulating neurons
Temporal models for human visual acuity
Subspace-based enhancement of speech in colored noise
Biomedical research is conducted by faculty from a variety of our departments:
Three-dimensional monolithic microsystems for biochemical analysis
Fluctuations and noise in biomedical systems
Smart skin
Environmental health engineering
Objective measurement of visual acuity in infants
Enhancement of A-mode ultrasound scans
High-resolution medical ultrasonic imaging via blind deconvolution
Modeling of transport processes
Modeling of laser applications in medicine
Measurement of thermophysical properties of biomaterial
Devices that have applications in biomedicine
Informatics, software engineering, software development,
information engineering and management
The Department of Engineering Management, Information and Systems (EMIS) research thrusts include:
Operations planning and management: resource allocation, personnel assignment, location, routing and scheduling, military targeting, and target systems
Optical telecommunications network design: minimum-cost high-bandwidth network design, all-optical and WDM network design and optimization, capacity planning, multi-period implementation, and quality-of-service considerations
Logistics, supply-chain, and supply-web: systems design and
management
Benchmarking systems: methods for measuring and improving the performance and efficiency of an enterprise, including advanced Balanced-Scorecard Models
Network management: circuit and wavelength optimization,
automated provisioning, and dynamic re-configuration of telecommunications
networks
Telecommunication network grooming and reliability models
Yield management models for telecommunications network engineering
and management
Data mining: machine-learning and parallel processing approaches to knowledge discovery in large datasets
Microdata and micro-simulation modeling: dataset construction for policy models and data quality control
Scoring systems: discriminant models, clustering, data envelopment
analysis, and organizational failure-prediction
The Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering focuses on a diverse set of issues including health, pollution prevention and treatment, atmospheric emissions, structural design, and geotechnical engineering.
Air pollution control engineering
Design of particulate and greenhouse gas emissions controls
Process modeling and design of physical, chemical, and biological
waste treatment systems
Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling of water resource systems
Fate and transport of environmental contaminants, including
pathogenic microorganisms
Human and environmental health effects of endocrine disruptors
The Department of Mechanical Engineering research thrusts include advanced
manufacturing, nonlinear dynamics and controls, solid mechanics, thermal science,
and fluid mechanics. Activities include:
Modeling of transport phenomena in porous media
Cooling of high heat flux electronics
Measurement and prediction of thermal transport in thin electronic films
Numerical modeling of free surface fluid flows, tsunami mitigation, and fluid-solid interactions
Heat transfer, phase change, and fluid flow on short time and spatial scales,
with applications to laser micromachining
Vortex dynamics, pulsed jet propulsion, and aquatic propulsion
Nonlinear
modeling and stability analysis of heavy trucks during cornering and braking
Analysis, design and fabrication of a prototype red laser light delivery
system for use in photodynamic therapy of Barrett's esophagus
Optoelectronic packaging
Haptic interfaces
Analysis of human motion
Impact mechanics
Abrasive waterjet machining technology
Friction stir welding studies, including modeling of heat transfer and
fluid flow, as well as on-line monitoring
Modeling of surface modification by laser beam
Modeling, sensing and control of laser-based and welding-based additive
manufacturing
Solid freeform fabrication processes
Sensing and control of welding processes
Dr. Gary Evans and
a graduate student conducting research.
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