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D E P A R T M E N T O F EElleeccttrriiccaall EEnnggiinneeeerriinngg 2 0 0 6 – 2 0 0 7 EE External Advisory Council CURRENT MEMBERS Ben Adamo David G. Leeper CEO Sr. Principal Engineer Phoenix Analog Ultrawideband Networking Operations Rick Anderson Intel Corp. Senior Software Engineering Manager Eric C. Maas Tektronix Director Technology Strategy & Tom Butler Strategic Alliances Engr. Section Manager Motorola National Systems Division General Dynamics C4 Systems Robert L. Melcher CTO Bernadette Buddington Syntax-Brillian Corp. Manager Radar Engr./Site Operations Mark Phelps Lockheed Martin Sr. Director Electronic Systems Jack Davis Technology President Medtronic APS Kevin Stoddard Neil E. Hejny Control Systems Division Director, Electronics Center Manager Raytheon Missile Systems Brooks-PRI Joseph W. Jackson Bill Twardy Manager, Flight Controls Manager, Research for SRP Business SRP Honeywell Sam Werner Tadija Janjic IBM Strategic Development Engineer Peter Zdebel Texas Instruments CTO ON Semiconductor Karl Johnson Director of Microwave and Thomas Zipperian Mixed Signal Technologies Unit Director, MESA Freescale Fabrication Sandia National Laboratories Mike Johnson Vice President Advanced Micro Devices Contents IRA A. FULTON SCHOOL OF LETTER FROM THE CHAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 - 3 ENGINEERING YEAR IN REVIEW Engineering Development Faculty Honors, Awards, and News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 - 10 P.O. Box 875506 Meldrum to Join Fulton School as Dean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tempe, AZ 85287-5506 Nano-Electronics Institute Launched at ASU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Farmer Rewarded with NAE Membership. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 For more information about ASU, the Ira A. Fulton School of Cochran Earns Defense Public Service Medal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Engineering, or the Department of EE Researchers Contribute to NASAPatent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Electrical Engineering, please visit Funding Boost Benefits ASU Media Scientists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 us online at www.fulton.asu.edu. Alumnus Earns Engineering Acclaim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Two Professors Honored for Teaching Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ASU Contributes to Multi-Institutional Research Project. . . . . . . . 7 New Hires/Recent Retirees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 THE DEPARTMENT OF Online Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ASU Recieves Multiple MURI Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ANNUAL REPORT Doctoral Graduates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 - 10 This publication is written, designed, and produced by the Ira A. Fulton Student Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 - 12 School of Engineering for distribution to selected alumni, FEATURE STORY industry partners, and academic The ASU Signal Processing & Communications Group . . . . . 13 - 17 friends worldwide. Editors RESEARCH CENTERS Dr. Joseph Palais WINTech/Connection One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Lindsey Gay Center for Low Power Electronics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Center for Solid State Electronics Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Art Director Elaine Rettger (Studio 18) Power Systems Engineering Research Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Photography FACULTY LISTINGS AND SIDEBAR STORIES Ken Sweat Faculty Bios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 - 41 Timothy Trumble EE Ranking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Faculty Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 © 2006 Arizona State University. All rights reserved. The sunburst logo is a registered Affiliate Professors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 trademark, and the Arizona State University EE Enrollment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 word mark is a trademark of Arizona State University. All other brands, product names, Google Locates Facility at ASU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 company names, trademarks and service marks used herein are the property of their Alumni News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 respective owners. Information in this document is for informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice. ANNUAL REPORT Department of Electrical Engineering Letter From the Chair Having completed one year as chair, I am pleased to share with you the new developments in our department. Research has been a core strength of our department for many years. It is a fundamental component of our mission to educate students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and to serve the citizens of Arizona Stephen M. Phillips through economic development and entrepreneurial activities. Many of the articles in this annual report focus on research, its relationship to education and its power in earning accolades for the department and its faculty. While there is no consensus on the best way to measure research performance, sponsored projects’expenditures and awards are “ common metrics. This past fiscal year, July Another indicator of 2005-June 2006, EE faculty spent nearly EE’s growing research $13.5 million on research projects, an impressive 36 percent increase over the reputation is that we previous year. Even more impressive is the over $15.5 million that the EE faculty received now enroll nearly 250 in new awards, a nearly 45 percent increase PhD students, the over last year. It is also noteworthy that this amount represents more than 31 percent of largest number in our the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering’s total history”. awards and more than 8 percent of the entire university’s awards. All of the EE department’s faculty can take credit for leading this research effort, supported by our staff and students. New activities this year that contributed significantly to these statistics 22 YEAR IN REVIEW are the Applied NanoBioscience We continue to strengthen our Power Systems Engineering Center led by Professor Frederic department through new hires, Research Center, Assistant Zenhausern of the BioDesign including Assistant Professor Professor Yu Kevin Cao as NSF Institute, the Power Systems Bahar Jalali-Farahani, who CAREER award winner and Engineering Research Center recently completed her PhD Professor Stephen Goodnick as led by Professor Vijay Vittal, degree at Ohio State University, associate vice president for ConnectionOne/WinTech Center and Gennady Gildenblat, who is research at ASU. We welcome led by Professor Sayfe Kiaei and the Motorola Professor and was the opportunity to share our the Arizona Institute for most recently on the faculty of accomplishments through this Nanoelectronics led by Penn State University. Several annual report. Professor Stephen Goodnick. of our current faculty have also This institute consists of several been recognized, including centers led by EE faculty Professor Vijay Vittal as the including Professor Yong-Hang national director of the NSF Zhang, Professor Trevor Thornton and Professor Michael Stephen M. Phillips Kozicki. Professor and Chair Another indicator of EE’s Financial Summary growing research reputation is Department of Electrical Engineering that we now enroll nearly 250 Sponsored Research Expenditures PhD students, the largest number in our history. This 14 growth parallels the research funding increases and is another 1 metric of research program 3 12 . 5 strength. Enrollment in the M M master’s program also saw an i l il increase from last year, partially l 10 li i o due to the increasing popularity o 9 9 n n .9 .9 of our online course offerings s 8 9 M M and new programs such as the o 8 M i i l l . l l combined MSE and MBA f 4 il io io program. D 6 M lio n n n o 6 i l . l l 4 io l 5 n a 4 . M rs 1 M illi o il n 2 li o n 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 F i s c a l Y e a r 33 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Year in Review Meldrum to Join Fulton School as Dean Deirdre Meldrum, who has spent her career forging new scientific links, has now been appointed dean of ASU’S Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Meldrum is an electrical engineering professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. She has also served as the principal investigator and co-director of the Microscale Life Sciences Center, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center of Excellence in Genomic Science that she helped establish. This appointment is part of a major effort by ASU to move the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering to the top level of engineering schools nationally. ASU will provide Meldrum with additional resources to hire new faculty and invest in start-up labs and research initiatives. Former ASU Provost Milton Glick stated about the new dean, “Dr. Meldrum’s demonstrated ability to bring together multiple disciplines to work on ‘grand challenge’type problems, and her dedication to including students in research programs are among the reasons we are so excited about her joining ASU.” Meldrum will begin her tenure as dean in January 2007. She will also hold an academic chair, direct a new center within the Biodesign Institute and continue her many research endeavors. ASU will appoint an executive dean to aid her in running the school on a day-to-day basis. Institute for Nano-Electronics Launched at ASU Under the leadership of Director Stephen Goodnick, the Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics (AINE) began operations in December 2005. AINE is focused on ASU research interests in nanoelectronics, and is expected to strongly impact future technology areas related to e.g., ultra-low power/ultra- high speed electronics, and hybrid biomolecular electronics at the interface between the biological and electronic worlds. The institute includes the Center for Nanophotonics, which is led by Electrical Engineering Professor Yong-Hang Zhang, and the Center for Biomolecular Integrated Circuits, which is led by Electrical Engineering Professor Trevor Thornton. 44 FACULTY HONORS, AWARDS, & NEWS Farmer Rewarded with Cochran Earns NAE Membership Defense Public Service Medal Another of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School’s Department of Engineering faculty members has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering. Richard Farmeris the third electrical engineering professor to receive this honor, joining professors Gerald Heydt and Vijay Vittal. The NAE membership is considered one of the highest distinctions in While Electrical Engineering Professor engineering. Douglas Cochranreturned to ASU last year, Farmer was a principal engineer with the Arizona Public Service his five years of service for the Department of Co. (APS), the state’s largest electric utility, for almost 30 years. Defense (DoD) were not forgotten. Cochran During that time, he led projects that developed technology to was awarded the Office of the Secretary of improve the capacity, efficiency and reliability of electrical power Defense Medal for exceptional public service in generation and transmission systems. July 2005. During his time with the DoD, The NAE cited the far-reaching impact of Farmer’s Professor Cochran served as the director of the accomplishments in power systems engineering as the reason applied and computational mathematics area why he merited membership. within the Defense Advanced Research Farmer has also contributed his expertise to ASU by serving as Projects Agency. The award cited Cochran’s a part-time faculty member since 1966, two years after earning his research leadership in such fields as quantum master’s degree at the university. information science, computational Farmer stated about the award, “It’s a big thing, but it’s just electromagnetics and pure mathematics. frosting on the cake. Awards are nice, but it’s the joy of a rewarding career that has the greatest meaning for me.” EE Researchers Contribute to NASA Patent Working with NASA’s AMES Research Center, Electrical Engineering Professor Lina Karam and doctoral student Zhen Liu, helped to develop a JPEG2000- compatible encoding system that can compress image data and achieve a desired visual quality while minimizing the bit-rate. In contrast, existing JPEG2000 encoders do not allow the user to specify a target distortion, but only a target bit-rate, which makes it difficult to achieve a target visual quality since different images usually result in different visual qualities when coded at the same bit-rate. Apatent has been filed by NASAand a Tech Brief will appear in the NASATech Briefs journal. 55 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Year in Review Funding Boost Benefits ASU Media Scientists $3 million was granted in 2005 to ASU’s Arts, Media and Engineering (AME) program by the National Science Foundation for an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program. The goal of the AME program, a collaborative effort of the Herberger College of Fine Arts and the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, is to create experiential media systems that integrate computation with physical human experience to produce technological advances in health, arts and everyday living. The Department of Electrical Engineering is a founding partner of the AME program and the IGERT. The grant will provide five years of support including graduate fellowships to doctoral students who are pursuing an AME concentration in electrical engineering. Thanassis Rikakis is the director of the AME program and the principal investigator of the IGERT. Andreas Spanias, an electrical engineering professor, is the associate director of the program and the co-principal investigator of the IGERT. Other electrical engineering faculty affiliated with AME include: Lina Karam, Gang Qian, Tony Rodriguez and Dancers engage in a movement-based interactive Harvey Thornburg. dance performance. Alumnus Earns Engineering Goodnick Named Acclaim Associate Vice President for Research Among the 16 engineers selected as one of the “New Faces of Engineering” in the United States, was former In May 2006, former Electrical Engineering ASU graduate Yazhou Liu. The recipients of this honor Chair Stephen Goodnick took over as associate were chosen by the Engineers Week Foundation and vice president for research at ASU. Goodnick, were featured in a USA Today article. Liu earned his who also serves as the interim deputy dean and doctorate from the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering director of nanotechnology for the Ira. A. Fulton in 2004. He currently works as an electrical engineer School of Engineering, plans to use his new for the THALES group in Seattle and is helping to position to further ASU’s nanoelectronic efforts. design a power conversion system for the Boeing His will also be responsible for coordinating such Dream Liner 787. Liu credited Electrical Engineering research initiatives as alternative energy and Professor Gerald Heydt for his success. “He taught me MacroTechnology Works. a lot about research in my field and working styles that are helpful in my everyday job,” Liu said. 66 FACULTY HONORS, AWARDS, & NEWS Two Professors Honored for Teaching Skills Two electrical engineering professors, Daniel Tylavsky and Frederic Zenhausern, were nominated to be the 2006 Professor of the Year. These professors were among the 25 ASU educators recognized for excellence in teaching. The nominations for Professor of the Year are made by students, and the final award is decided upon by a committee of students, faculty and members of the ASU Parent’s Association. ASU Contributes to a Multi-Institutional New Hires Research Project Bahar Jalali-Farahani, Assistant ASU was awarded a $1.7 million grant by the Professor, PhD, Ohio State University Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DAPRA) to develop novel hybrid biomolecular Research interests include: Analog nanodevices and systems that will potentially integrated circuits especially low power serve as biosensors in such areas as disease high performance designs, reliability detection and drug-delivery systems. This award issues in deep submicron technology, is part of an $11.7 million grant that was calibration techniques for analog to distributed among six other universities and the digital converters, and analog design Rush Medical Hospital in Chicago. Electrical for wireless communication systems. Engineering Professors Stephen Goodnick and Trevor Thornton are leading this research effort at ASU. Goodnick and Thornton concluded Gennady Gildenblat, Motorola Phase I of the project in spring 2005 and plan to Professor, PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic complete Phase II in December 2007. Institute, Troy Research interests include: Semiconductor transport physics and Recent Retiree modeling, novel semiconductor devices, low temperature (10-300k) CMOS, hot carrier effects in MOS This past year, Electrical Engineering integrated circuits, and electronic Associate Professor Elbadawy Elsharawy application of wide-gap retired. Elsharawy began his teaching semiconductors. career at ASU in 1989. His research and teaching interests included microwave circuits, applied electromagnetics, anistrophic devices, electronic packaging and cellular phone antennas. 77 FACULTY HONORS, AWARDS, & NEWS Year in Review O N L I N E E D U C A T I O N EE Department takes its master’s program to a new level – distance learning online The ASU Electrical Engineering Department’s me to balance my work, home and school life,” said renowned faculty is teaching at a place it has never Tony Yu, an engineer at Medtronic. “In addition to the gone before – the World Wide Web. flexibility of taking courses online, you get an entire This year, the EE Department is offering online staff of dedicated support from the ASU Engineering classes for the Master of Science in Engineering in Online Team who has been committed in seeing me electrical engineering with no residency requirements. (and ultimately their programs) through to success.” The online courses and MSE program allow alumni The material in the online courses is the same as the and professionals to access ASU from anywhere in the regular courses taught during the school year. Students world through flexible delivery. taking the online classes have access to the same While teaching through distance learning is nothing lectures through streamed media, the same books and new to the EE Department, it is the first opportunity to even the same interaction with other students and pursue the MSE in electrical engineering entirely via faculty through interactive portals in the ASU course the Internet. The classes are modeled after those management system. taught in person at ASU and have been transformed to The EE Department has more than 30 students in allow students to access them from the workplace, the MSE online program and serves over 100 students home or during travel. taking EE classes as part of the Master of Engineering “I really enjoy having the freedom of taking classes at degree. For additional information, visit my own pace. Offering online courses at ASU allows www.asuengineeringonline.com or call (480) 965-1740. ASU Receives Multiple MURI Awards Up to $8.6 million in the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) funds have recently been awarded to two ASU teams working on aerospace research. Electrical Engineering Professor Yong-Hang Zhang is working on a team to create inexpensive lasers based on a family of silicon-based semiconductors. The second MURI team, which Electrical Engineering Professors Douglas Cochran and Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola are serving on as investigators, is developing a sensor system to monitor the structural stability of aircraft. Professor Papandreou-Suppappola is also an investigator with Professor Darryl Morrell on a MURI team that is studying waveform configuration for next-generation agile radar systems. They plan to improve radar system performance by making effective use of the transmitter agility. All three MURI grants were awarded for three years with the possibility of a two-year extension. 88

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