Electrical Engineering at the
University of Washington
December 2002
Mission
The mission of the department is to achieve
Excellence in Education Through Cutting Edge
Research
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• Providing world-class undergraduate and
graduate education in Electrical Engineering.
• Conducting research of technical influence and
recognized excellence, and
• Engaging in outstanding service to our
profession and community
Values
Innovation and creativity
! High expectations for quality of work and
professionalism
! Teamwork, collegiality and mutual respect
among faculty, staff and students
! Personal growth of our faculty, staff and
students
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Faculty
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42 tenure track faculty: 35 men, 7 women
2 other lecturers (one of these is an affiliate faculty)
14 research track faculty
21 professors emeriti
8 research associates (post-doctoral positions)
20 adjunct professors (primary affiliation at UW)
48 affiliate professors (primary affiliation not UW)
1 Visiting Professor & 9 Visiting Scholars
Tenure Track Faculty
Tenure Track Faculty Hires, Retirements and Departures
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Retired
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Departed
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Outstanding Faculty--Professional
Recognition Awards
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10 NSF CAREER Awards
8 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Awards
1 Presidential Early Career Award
1 ONR Young Investigator Award
1 ARO Young Investigator Award
4 NSF Research Initiation Grants
NSA Rising Star Award
1 NIH Research Career Special Emphasis Award
1 NIH Career Development Award
2 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows
URSI Young Scientist Award
RSI Bocker Fellow
2 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early
Career Awards
Outstanding Faculty--Professional
Recognition Awards
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19 IEEE Fellows
13+ Fellows of other Professional
Societies
2 members National Academy of
Engineering
1 major IEEE Medal
20+ "Best Paper" Awards in PeerReviewed Journals
35+ editorships, associate editorships and
editorial board memberships of peerreviewed journals
Education
Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and
Ph.D. degrees, with concentrations in:
! Electromagnetics
! Devices and MEMS
! Energy
! Control and Robotics
! VLSI and Digital Systems
! Communications and Wireless
! Signal and Image Processing
Student Demographics Fall 2002
480 undergraduates
- 20% women
- 50 underrepresented minority
- 300 transfer from community colleges
Approximately 320 graduate students
- 150 US citizen or permanent resident
- 100 International
- 60 women
"1/3 of new graduate students in Fall 2002 are
women
"2/3 of new graduate students in Fall 2002 are US
citizens/permanent residents
PhD Degrees
The number of EE Ph.D. degrees awarded
was 26 in 2000-2001 and 24 in 2001-2002
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Ph.D. students of recently hired Assistant
Professors progress in their work. The
number of students taking the department’s
Ph.D. qualifying exam has risen to over 40
per year.
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Research Topics- 1
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Advanced Power Technologies
Biorobotics, Haptic Interfaces and
Robotic Surgery
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Automated tools for Genomics and
Proteomics
Computational Intelligence (Fuzzy
Logic, Neural Nets)
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Systems-on-a-chip Design and Testing
High-speed, Low-Power Design
Reconfigurable computing
Microelectronic process, device and
circuit modeling
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
Distributed, Portable and ‘Smart’
Sensors
Photonics, optical sensors and Optical
Communications
Nanotechnology
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Wireless Networks and
Communications
Network Security and Cryptography
Streaming and Broadcast Multimedia
Image and video processing and
analysis
Signal Processing and Compression
Computational Speech and Language
Modeling
Electromagnetics and EM Interference
Radar and Remote Sensing