Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering

44 Pages·2006·3.56 MB·English

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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 [phone].
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.
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