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2014 News


October 31, 2014
Best Paper Award
Haibo Wang and Ram Harshvardhan Radhakrishnan received best paper award for “An Accelerated Successive Approximation Technique for Analog to Digital Converter Design,” at the 27th IEEE International System on Chip Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2014.


October 28, 2014
Best Paper Award
Feixiang Zhang and Dr. Zhou receive the Best Paper Award for "Radio Propagation Prediction in Restricted Spaces" in IEEE Int. Conf. Wireless Commun. and Signal Processing (WCSP) 2014.


October 01, 2014
External Research Grants
Dr. Xiangwei Zhou receives $50,000 from Huawei Technologies Corporation.


October 01, 2014
External Research Grants
Drs. Jun Qin and Haibo Wang receive a $100,000 from Illinois Clean Coal Institute.


September 01, 2014
External Research Grants
Dr Spyros Tragoudas receives $40,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF I/UCRC for Embedded Systems).


September 01, 2014
External Research Grants
Drs Spyros Tragoudas and Themistoklis Haniotakis receive a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.


July 01, 2014
External Research Grants
Dr. Shaikh Ahmed receives a $16,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (REU).


July 01, 2014
External Research Grants
Dr. Spyros Tragoudas receives a $40,000 grant from the US Navy (NAVSEA Crane).


June 11, 2014
New Externally Funded Research Center
A new externally funded research center was initiated in May at the ECE Department. It is entitled the "Power Research Program". It will be funded by AMEREN for the next five years.


January 01, 2014
External Research Grants
Dr. Spyros Tragoudas receives $249,000 from Intel, United Technologies Aerospace Systems and Rockwell Collins for the NSF I/UCRC for Embedded Systems.


2013 News


October 15, 2013
External Research Grants
External research grants were awarded to ECE faculty this fall, primarily from the NSF. The NSF research grants include one new award and one continuing NSF. In particular, Dr. Xiangwei Zhou received $896,629 for efficient temporal-spatial spectrum sharing through voluntary exchange, and Dr. Spyros Tragoudas received $250,000 for the Consortium for Embedded Systems.


October 07, 2013
New ECE Graduate Advisor
Dr. Zargazadeh will serve as the ECE Graduate advisor for non-thesis MS students in the Department.


August 31, 2013
Cornell Cup
A team of five undergraduates from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale recently returned from the second annual Cornell Cup with an Honorable Mention. Sponsored by Intel and organized by Cornell University, the Cornell Cup is an embedded design competition that asks teams of three to five college students to research a real problem and propose a solution that involves the innovative application of embedded technology – computer systems designed to control specific mechanical or electrical systems.


July 31, 2013
Industrial Advisory Council
The ECE Industrial Advisory Council include members from Ameren, Boeing, Intel, Qualcomm, Rockwell Collins, General Dynamics, Seagate, Caterpillar, and several other companies.


May 31, 2013
News Story


April 18, 2013
Boeing challenges students to design new cockpit - Andrea Hahn
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Twenty-two engineering students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have spent all of this academic year preparing for the year 2040.


2012 News


July 31, 2012
External Research Grants
Several external research grants were awarded to ECE faculty in June and July, primarily from the NSF. The NSF research grants include two new awards and one continuing NSF. In particular, Dr. Ahmed received $149,921 for the study and design of nano-enabled thermoelectric devices, Dr. Ramaprasad was awarded the last portion of a continuing grant for timing considerations in multi-core environments, and Drs. Tragoudas and Wang received a new grant on the design of threshold logic circuits.


May 10, 2012
Cornell Cup
A team of Electrical and Computer Engineering students participated in the Cornell Cup, a national competition conducted by Intel. Our team named "Hot Dawgs" made the final field of 24, which competed for the top honors on May 4 and 5 in Orlando, Florida.


2010 News


July 31, 2010
Center for Embedded Systems
The Consortium is a nationally recognized center for research and development in the emerging area of embedded computing system technologies.


July 22, 2010
High Performance Computing
High-performance computing (HPC) refers to the use of supercomputers and/or computer clusters to accelerate the solution of fundamental problems in science, engineering and business that have broad scientific and economic impact. With a generous support from NSF (Award No. 0855221), SIUC has developed an HPC center (SIHPSI: Southern Illinois HPC Infrastructure), a facility first-of-its-kind not only within the campus but in the greater Southern Illinois region also.