Research

Cutting-edge research lives here, with the people and the facilities that foster discovery.

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A rainbow-colored grating, about 25 millimeters wide, under sunlight. Enlarged microscope images show the graded surface, with the black bars indicating a length of 10 microns.

 

 

  • Areas of Research
    10/11/23
    Our faculty members are actively engaged in research in the areas of Signals, Communications and Networking; Electronics and Photonics; and Energy Systems.
  • Research Facilities
    6/9/20
    The Department of Electrical Engineering resides in Davis Hall, a green building with state-of-the-art research laboratory facilities, teaching labs and lecture halls, designed to support collaboration among faculty and student groups within the department, across the university, and with other institutions.
  • Technical Innovations
    8/24/17
    Networking the oceans. Creating faster reliable wireless networks for the booming industry of wireless communication services and the Internet of Things. Reducing electronic devices to the nanoscale. Improving our ability to detect cancer. Making the electrical grid more efficient.  Designing low cost medical imaging and health monitoring devices. Bringing accurate, portable, and affordable disease diagnostic tools at the point of care. Enabling machine learning that extracts reliable information from unreliable data.