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- 1. LET US TELLYOU ABOUT ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING AT UofL The history, profession and educational programs of ECE
- 2. What is Electrical& Computer Engineering at UofL? Electrical Engineering deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. Computer Engineering integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineering focuses both on how computer systems work, and how they integrate into larger systems.
- 3. What is Electrical& Computer Engineering at UofL? Specialties in Electrical Engineering are Electronics: Circuits, micro and nano-devices, lasers Power systems: The Grid, power electronics, solar energy Communication systems: Wireless, fiber optic, satellite, radio, TV, GPS Instruments: Test-measurement, sensors, radars, embedded systems Control and Guidance Systems Specialties in Computer Engineering are Digital circuit design Computer design: Devices, systems, hardware engineering Programming: From assembly language to simulation tools Signal processing: Face recognition, neural networks, spectrum analysis Robotics
- 4. Circuit diagram ofan audio amplifier Circuit board and board schematics Micro-ratchet Photonic crystal or “metamaterial” Field effect transistor Pop-up micro-lens What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Electrical Engineering Specialty: Electronics Semiconductor laser chip Color camera chip
- 5. Automatic control made this perfect roll possible Numerous actuators are usedto implement automatic control systems Automatic control guides missiles to targets Block diagram: Control system balancing of an inverted pendulum What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Electrical Engineering Specialty: Control and Guidance Systems Camera Stabilizer System
- 6. Overview: Power Generation and Distribution Hydroelectric generation of electricity Solar generationof electricity What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Electrical Engineering Specialty: Electrical Power Systems Transmission and voltage transforms for various users The Smart Grid
- 7. Communication systems are multilayered enabling nearly limitless connectivity Multilayer communication systemsused by the military give worldwide instantaneous “situational awareness” Wireless and fiber optics both provide worldwide connectivity Wireless and fiber optics both provide worldwide connectivity What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Electrical Engineering Specialty: Communication Systems
- 8. Rack mounted test-measurementequipment There are numerous tiny electronic sensors There are even wearable sensing skins Autos use miniature sensors extensively Radar and Infrared remote sensing systems What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Electrical Engineering Specialty: Instruments Embedded systems architectures
- 9. What is Electrical& Computer Engineering at UofL? Computer Engineering Specialty: Digital Circuit Design Logic diagram of digital circuit Circuit design of set/reset latch
- 10. What is Electrical& Computer Engineering at UofL? Computer Engineering Specialty: Computer design Computer design is multilayered and multidimensional Computer designs are realized as boards, chips and …… … supercomputer clusters – from room to fist sized Design includes making computers more human friendly
- 11. HTML Programming What isElectrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Computer Engineering Specialty: Programming Thermal and microwave radiation computed with simulation tools
- 12. Transient speech signalSimple frequency spectrum Complex one and two dimensional frequency spectra What is Electrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Computer Engineering Specialty: Signal Processing Simple neural network topology Application of neural network architecture to high level understanding of speech The rich set of data that is unique to each human being, when evaluated by signal processing/pattern recognition methods. permits automatic identity verification
- 13. Walking robots Micro-robots What isElectrical & Computer Engineering at UofL? Computer Engineering Specialty: Robotics Robot hand Drone with video link
- 14. What is Electrical& Computer Engineering at UofL? Specialties in Electrical Engineering are Electronics: Circuits, micro and nano-devices, lasers Power systems: The Grid, power electronics, solar energy Communication systems: Wireless, fiber optic, satellite, radio, TV, GPS Instruments: Test-measurement, sensors, radars, embedded systems Control and Guidance Systems Specialties in Computer Engineering are Digital circuit design Computer design: Devices, systems, hardware engineering Programming: From assembly language to simulation tools Signal processing: Face recognition, neural networks, spectrum analysis Robotics
- 15. Just how muchComputer Science is taught in ECE at UofL? ECE offers courses in 9 of the 10 areas of Computer Science Coding, cryptography, and information protection Communications and wireless networks Compilers and operating systems Computational science and engineering Computer networks, mobile computing, and distributed systems Computer systems: architecture, parallel processing & dependability Computer vision and robotics Embedded systems Integrated circuits, VLSI design, testing and CAD Signal, image and speech processing There are full courses in 6 of the 10 areas () and partial coverage in courses of 3 of the 10 areas ()
- 16. What our studentssay about the UofL ECE program Why I Chose Electrical Engineering Enjoy taking devices apart and figuring out how they work Provides career paths in most industries More interested in hardware aspect than software Great Cooperative Internships experiences at: Marathon Petroleum Company TopWorx Cynthia Smith
- 17. JOBS IN ELECTRICAL& COMPUTER ENGINEERING Jobs in the US from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Engineering Job: Number of jobs in US Expected growth in jobs 2012-2022 Median salary Electrical Engineer 174,000 5 % $ 88,000 Electronics Engineer 145,000 3 % $ 92,000 Computer Hardware Engineer 83,000 7 % $ 101,000 Software Developer: Application 613,000 23 % $ 90,000 Software Developer: Systems 404,000 20 % $ 99,000 Computer Programmers 344,000 8 % $ 74,280 Total 1,763,000 There are lots of engineering job categories where ECE graduates find employment, in addition to traditional electrical & electronic engineering
- 18. THE FASCINATING HISTORYOF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Electrical Engineering – 2500 years in the making This 30 foot tall mural was completed for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. It is now housed in the Paris Museum of Modern Art. It depicts the history and mythology of electricity. Over 100 hundred scientists who developed our understanding of electricity are represented, starting from the left. ECE students become familiar with many of these names, including: Faraday, Coulomb, Maxwell, Lorentz Hertz, Kelvin, Ampere, Watt, Ohm Joule, Volta, Fourier, Laplace, Huygens Leibniz, Newton, Marconi, Edison THE FASCINATING HISTORY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Electrical Engineering – 2500 years in the making This 30 foot tall mural was completed for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. It is now housed in the Paris Museum of Modern Art. It depicts the history and mythology of electricity. Over 100 hundred scientists who developed our understanding of electricity are represented, starting from the left. ECE students become familiar with many of these names, including: Faraday, Coulomb, Maxwell, Lorentz Hertz, Kelvin, Ampere, Watt, Ohm Joule, Volta, Fourier, Laplace, Huygens Leibniz, Newton, Marconi, Edison
- 19. THINK BIG! LOTS OFINTERESTING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ECEs Famous Electrical Engineers & Computer Engineers Thomas Edison Most Important Person in the Last 1000 Years — Life magazine, 1997 Nikola Tesla Father of AC Power Transmission Electric Power Entertainment-Sound, TV, Movies, Computer Philo Farnsworth First all-electronic video camera A. C. Nielsen Nielson rating for measuring TV viewership Ray Dolby Dolby audio noise reduction systems Amar Bose Bose Corporation speaker systems Arun Netravali Developed HDTV, President Bell Labs Pat Hanrahan Computer animation — 3 Academy Awards Alexey Pajitnov—Tetris video game Bill Atkinson—MacPaint Measurement Instruments W. Hewlett & D. Packard Founded HP with oscillator for Walt Disney movie Fantasia Wallace Coulter Reinhold Rudenberg Electronic particle counter First electron microscope Godfrey Hounsfield 3D computed tomography x-ray images – Nobel Prize Electronic Devices and Integrated Circuits Charles Steinmetz AC circuit theory and analysis Lee de Forest First vacuum tube, motion picture sound John Bardeen First transistor, superconductors – 2 Nobel Prizes Jack Kilby Invented the integrated circuit – Nobel Prize Robert Dennard Invented the modern DRAM memory Donald Pederson SPICE integrated circuit modeling program Carver Mead VLSI circuit design and IC software compilers Radio, Radar and Microwaves G. Marconi First transatlantic radio broadcast – Nobel Prize E. Armstrong Superheterodyne receiver & FM radio Robert Hall Magnetrons for radar jamming and microwave ovens Simo Ramo Pioneering microwave research Founded TRW H. Yagi Endfire array directional antenna Control systems, Robotics, Man-machine interfaces Harold Black Lotfi Zadeh Negative feedback amplifier Fuzzy logic Rudolf Kálmán Kalman filter for guidance with noisy measurements Ray Kurzweil Optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesizers Lighting, Lasers & Optoelectronics G. Heilmeier The liquid crystal display (LCD) Nick Holonyak First light emitting diode (LED) Shuji Nakamura The blue GaN LED Dennis Gabor Holography – Nobel Prize Gerald Pearson First practical silicon solar cell H. Edgerton Stroboscope/high speed photos Telecommunications, Information Processing & Internet C. T. Bright First transatlantic telegraph cable C. Shannon Information/communication theory, digital logic S. Winograd Fast Fourier Transform, Computational complexity Andrew Viterbi Error correcting decoder, Founded Qualcom V. Cerf TCP/IP Internet architecture L. Kleinrock ARPANET D. Davies Data packet switching Larry Page Google D. Huffman Data compression R. Metcalfe Ethernet Computers J. Presper Eckert First general purpose digital computer Thomas Flowers First programmable electronic computer Ed Roberts Father of the personal computer Bill English First computer mouse Seymour Cray Parallel processing supercomputers John Hennessy Fast processor chips, President Stanford U. S. Wozniak – Apple C. Kesselman – Grid computing ECE Astronauts Ellen Ochoa Julie Payette Judith Resnik Jose Hernandez David Wolf Eugene Cernan Gregory Chamitoff Other Interesting ECE Career Paths George de Mestral Invented Velcro Hyman G. Rickover Father of the nuclear navy
- 20. Electrical and ComputerEngineers make great inventors INVENT YOURSELF! Join the ECE program and become an Electrical and Computer Engineer
- 21. Meet the ECEDepartment at the Annual Student-Faculty Picnic Other social events: Student & Louisville IEEE branch meetings, Seminar series, Honors, awards & graduation ceremonies, Competitions like National Solar Decathalon
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