ECE Illinois Overview

ECE Illinois Overview

Tom MooneCommunications Coordinator

August 2012

The University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign

“Here, my friends, on the prairies of Illinois and of the Middle

West, We can see a long way in all directions.

We look to east, to west, to north and south.

Our commerce, our ideas, come and go in all

directions.

Here there are no barriers,

No defenses, to ideas or the spirit,

No rigid patterns of thought, and no iron

conformity.”

-Adlai E. Stevenson II, Illinois Governor 1949-1953

• Land-grant university created by Morrill Act

• Founded in 1867• Flagship institution• 43,862 students• 3,042 faculty• 7,932 staff

Alma Mater

Numbers updated 7-11

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Robert Easter, President, University of Illinois• Phyllis Wise, Vice President, University of

Illinois, and Chancellor, Urbana Campus• Ilesanmi Adesida, Provost (and ECE professor)• Michael Bragg, Interim Dean, College of

Engineering• Andreas Cangellaris, ECE Illinois Department

Head

Administration

August 2012

“I view us as a quality of life engine. The source

of discovery translated into information,

translated into knowledge, and translated into

applications that make this world a better place

for its citizens to live in. We are a public

university serving the public good through

learning, discovery, and engagement.”

-Chancellor Phyllis Wise

• 22 Nobel Prizes and 20 Pulitzer Prizes (faculty/alumni)

• 478 active US patents• Spends over $500 million for science and

engineering R&D (2009)• Received more NSF funding than any other

academic institution from 1998 to 2003, and again in 2009

• Nationally, ranked 8th in PhDs awarded (2006) by Inside Higher Ed

University of Illinois: Research Powerhouse


• 316 main campus buildings on 2.3 square miles

• 705 total campus buildings on 7.7 square miles

• Over 1,000 registered student organizations,

coalitions, honorary societies, and teams

• 425,000+ living alumni, one of the largest alumni

organizations in the nation

University of Illinois: How We Size Up


• The Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks Illinois 4th in their “Academic Ranking of World Universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Science 2012”

• Ranked 9th nationally in number of students enrolled in study abroad programs (2009)

• Ranked 2nd nationally for total number of international students enrolled (2010)

• Home to PLATO and the first computer network; ranked first among “top wired colleges” by PC Magazine (2008)

World Connections


Engineering at Illinois

• Aerospace• Agricultural and

Biological • Bioengineering• Chemical and

Biomolecular• Civil and Environmental • Computer Science• Electrical and Computer • Industrial and Enterprise

Systems

• Materials Science and Engineering

• Mechanical Science and Engineering

• Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological

• Physics

Twelve Distinguished Departments

• Undergraduate students: 6,970• Graduate students: 2,711• Professors: 241• Associate professors: 77• Assistant professors: 86• BS degrees conferred: 1,089• MS degrees conferred: 475• PhD degrees conferred: 265

College of Engineering Numbers


• Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

• Coordinated Science Laboratory

• Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory

• Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Beckman Institute

Major Research Facilities

• Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory

• Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems

• Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems

• Grainger Center for Electric Machinery and Electromechanics

• Information Trust Institute

• Mid-America Earthquake Center

• Power Systems Engineering Research Center

• Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing

• Technology Entrepreneur Center

• Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets

Over 40 Interdisciplinary Centers and Labs

• Technologically advanced; inspiring learning and discovery environment

• Annually serves more than 1.5 million students, faculty, and visitors

• Capacity for 350,000 volumes

• 1,100 journal subscriptions

• Conference and series subscriptions

• High-end engineering workstations

Grainger Engineering Library

Grainger Engineering Library Information Center

• The undergraduate engineering program ranks 6th (2012)

• The graduate engineering program ranks 5th (2013)

• Most of the college’s 12 departments are consistently top-ranked

US News Rankings


• Agricultural (2)• Civil (2)• Computer engineering (5)• Electrical/electronic/communications (5)• Engineering physics (2)• Environmental/environmental health (4)• Materials (3)

Undergraduate Engineering Specialties in 2012 Top Five

Graduate Engineering Specialties in 2011 Top

Five• Biological / Agricultural (1)

• Civil (2)

• Computer engineering (4)

• Electrical/electronic (4)

• Environmental (3)

• Materials (2)

The Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering

Why Major in ECE?

Our faculty and students work to solve important problems that affect society and our daily lives, including:

– Ensuring a reliable energy supply– Enabling wireless communication– Creating new devices and architectures that improve the

speed and power consumption of computers and handheld electronics

– Developing LED lighting and solar cells for energy efficiency– Creating nanomaterials and lasers for sensing– Cryptography, hardware verification, and information theory

for building trustworthy networks– Inventing new imaging techniques that enable medical

diagnoses and early treatment

• Electrical engineering program established in 1891

• Computer engineering added in 1972

• Annually ranked a top program:

- Undergraduate electrical engineering is ranked 5th and graduate is ranked 4th by US News

- Undergraduate computer engineering is ranked 5th and graduate computer engineering is ranked 4th by US News

• 20,085 alumni worldwide

• 3,688 alumni with more than one ECE Illinois degree

ECE ILLINOIS


ECE Faculty• 106 faculty members• Over 50% Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers (IEEE) fellows• Seven American Physical Society

(APS) fellows• Seven Association for Computing

Machinery (ACM) fellows• 11 American Association for the

Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows

• 18 members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) (9 emeritus faculty)

• Highly decorated—National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology, Japan Prize, Russian Energy Prize, IEEE Medal of Honor

Bruce Hajek


• Prith Banerjee, chief technical officer, ABB• Todd Beanblossom, chief engineer, Boeing• Mark Bohr, senior fellow, Intel• Ralph Cicerone, president, National Academy of Science• Admiral Archie Clemins, commander in chief, US Pacific

Fleet (retired) • Martin Eberhard, founder, Tesla Motors• Rob Kennedy, co-president, C-SPAN• Brian Leung, founder, Bay Apparel • Jerry Sanders, founder, Advanced Micro Devices• Steve Sullivan, senior technology officer, Lucasfilm• Jack Sun, VP R&D, TSMC

Well-Placed Alumni


• ECE staff includes 70 academic professionals and hourly employees

• The average length of tenure is nine years

ECE Staff

ECE Undergraduate Students

• Total students: 1,736• Computer engineering (CompE)

majors: 608• Electrical engineering (EE) majors:

1,128 • CompE and EE incoming freshmen

average ACT score: 31.30• CompE and EE incoming freshmen

average high school rank: 88.99• Number bachelor’s degrees

conferred, 2010-2011: 264


ECE Graduate Student

• Total students: 476

• For 2010-2011:

– 86 master’s degrees conferred

– 72 PhD degrees conferred


• Students learn from faculty experts in their fields.

• 30 department undergraduate labs ensure hands-on component.

• Senior Design or Advanced Digital Projects Laboratory classes allow undergrads to initiate unique projects.

• Students prepared for leadership roles in increasingly global environment.

Educating Tomorrow’s Engineers

• As freshmen, all ECE students take ECE 110: Exploring Digital Information Technology, an introductory course that provides an overview of the discipline.

ECE 110

• Students in ECE 444: Theory and Fabrication -of Integrated Circuit Devices spend time working in the yellow glow of the “Fab Lab.”

ECE 444

• As parallel processors become more prevalent, need for experts will grow.

• Development of ECE 498 was unique collaboration between:– David Kirk, NVIDIA chief scientist– Wen-mei Hwu, AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and

Computer Engineering • ECE Illinois and NVIDIA will share blueprint of ECE

498 with numerous peer institutions.

ECE 498: Programming Massively Parallel

Processors

• Students study and collaborate with faculty who are experts in their areas. They also interact with fellow students who are outstanding and diverse.

• Students receive a hands-on education, spending a great deal of time in the department’s many laboratories.

• Most students leave Illinois prepared for life in the real world, having survived at least four years on a large campus offering many distractions, challenges, and opportunities. Students are mature, well-rounded, and ambitious.

Why Hire ECE Students?

• Interviews scheduled: 846• Companies recruiting ECE students: 507• Average interviews for BS students: 4.4• Average interviews for MS students: 6.5• Average offers for BS students: 3.0• Average offers for MS students: 2.0

From ECS, 2010-2011

Student Recruitment: Interviews

Average starting salary for:• Bachelor’s CompE: $69,875• Bachelor’s EE: $66,290• Master’s: $78,083

Signing bonus:• CompE: 34% receive; average is $5,844 (BS)• EE: 26% receive; average is $10,806 (all

levels)From ECS, 2010-2011

Student Recruitment: Salary

• Biomedical Imaging, Bioengineering, and Acoustics

• Communications• Computer Engineering• Electromagnetic Fields• Integrated Circuits and

Systems

• Physical Electronics• Power and Energy

Systems• Quantum Electronics• Remote Sensing and

Wave Propagation• Signal Processing• Systems and Control

Research Areas

• Transistor laser invented by Nick Holonyak and Milton Feng

• Uses a quantum well and a resonator in base to control electron-hole recombination and electrical gain

• Can switch between a normal transistor and a transistor laser

• Combines functionality of a laser and a transistor

• Progressing towards developing transistor lasers that operate at different speeds for a variety of commercial applications

Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak

Transistor Laser

• Stephen Boppart led a team of researchers, demonstrated the novel microscopy technique nonlinear interferometric vibrational imaging (NIVI).

• This technique produces easy-to-read, color-coded images of tissue, outlining clear tumor boundaries in a very short amount of time.

• NIVI assesses and constructs images based on molecular composition, allowing quick differentiation between tumors and healthy tissue.

Stephen Boppart

Tissue Imaging Technique

• Eric Pop is a part of an Illinois research team that has found graphene transistors to have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces their temperature.

• Current computers use fans to cool the transistors, which consumes much of the energy needed for the device.

• Graphene-based electronics could require little or no cooling, making graphene an attractive replacement for silicon.

Eric Pop

Self-cooling Observed in Graphene Electronics

• Jonathan Makela and his team were the first to record an airglow signature in the upper atmosphere produced by a tsunami.

• The signature, caused by the March 11 earthquake that devastated Japan, preceded the tsunami by one hour.

• Makela believes the camera systems used to record this tsunami could be an aid in creating a tsunami early warning system.

Jonathan Makela

Detecting Tsunami Airglow

• With over 100 members, the ECE faculty has an unparalleled breadth and depth of expertise.

• ECE faculty are hard-working, innovative, and collegial, yet competitive.

• Interdisciplinary projects can utilize Illinois’ structure of collaboration and access to faculty from other top-ranked engineering disciplines.

• ECE faculty are respected by peers, serving as editors for countless publications and receiving frequent awards and honors.

• Industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, Micron, NVIDIA, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Samsung, Toyota, Texas Instruments, AMD, and Boeing among research partners.

Faculty Lead: Education, Research, and Scholarship

The ECE Illinois Legacy

SOUND ON FILMOn June 9, 1922, Professor Joseph T. Tykociner gave

the first-ever demonstration of sound on film. Tykociner produced a variable-density sound track along one side of the film that records the picture images, thereby ensuring that pictures and sound would be synchronized.

ULTRASOUND

Professor William Fry founded the Bioacoustics Laboratory in 1946 and began conducting pioneering research in the use of ultrasound as a noninvasive surgical tool and a visualization tool for diagnostics, work which contributed to today’s ultrasound imaging tools.

TRANSISTOR

In December 1947, while working at Bell Labs, John Bardeen and colleagues William Shockley and Walter Brattain ushered in the era of solid state electronics with their invention of the transistor, earning them the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics. Bardeen served on the ECE faculty from 1951 to 1991.

INTEGRATED CIRCUITWhile working at Texas Instruments in 1958, alumnus Jack Kilby figured out how to interconnect huge numbers of discrete components economically and reliably by creating the integrated circuit. He received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000 for his invention.

LIGHT-EMITTING DIODEWhile working at General Electric in 1962, alumnus Nick Holonyak developed the first practical, visible spectrum light-emitting diode, changing information display and illumination forever. Holonyak has been an ECE faculty member since 1963.

FLAT-PANEL PLASMA DISPLAY

Professors Donald Bitzer and Gene Slottow (both of whom

are also alumni) along with student Robert Willson invented

the plasma display panel in 1964. They received an Emmy

Award for their work in 2002.

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ECE Illinois Overview