Department Heads Panel
ECEDHA 2013
Athina Petropulu
Professor and Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Instructional Laboratory on Wireless
Communications
The heart of the Laboratory is a National Instruments
NI) NI-USRP Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform,
onsisting of 6 SDR instructional stations. Each
tation consists of two matched USRP-2920 radios and
PC-based NI LabVIEW software suite.
RUTGERS - ECE
Wireless Information Network Laboratory
(WINLAB)
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Dynamic Spectrum Assignment (DSA)
Next-generation wireless & the Future Internet
Pervasive computing & applications
Social Computing
Privacy and Security of wireless devices
Cloud and Autonomic Computing
Computing Infrastructure
Datacenter Management
Robust Clustering Analysis for Self-Monitoring Distributed Systems
Dynamic Data-driven Management of Instrumented Datacenters
Cooperative Defense Against Network Attacks
Data Communication/Streaming
Applications
Computational Finance: Online Risk Analytics
Medical Informatics: Cancer TMA Analysis,
REMD for Drug Design
Science/Engineering: Instrumented Oilfield,
Transportation, Oceanography
Others
Hardware autonomics, sensing/actuation systems, etc.
RUTGERS - ECE
Rutgers and IBM
announced collaborative
venture to create a highperformance computing
center on campus.
The project , will focus on
the application of "big
data" analytics in life
sciences, finance, and
other industries.
Notable ECE Faculty Facts
• 6 NSF CAREER award winners
• 1 Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1 NSF Young Investigator
• 1 member of the National Academy of Engineering and the
National Academy of Sciences
• 10 IEEE Fellows
April
2012 - ECE Capstone Project “Green Water” Wins First Prize
at the American Water Works Conference
(RU-IEEE) at the 2012 Intelligent Ground Vehicle
Competition (IGVC)
In 2012, “NAVI”, the RU robot, took second place.
http://ieee.rutgers.edu
3-D Printing
3D Printing
ECE Students deploy RULost Mobile App
Degrees Awarded
180
160
140
120
Awarded PhDs
100
Awarded MS
80
Awarded BS
60
40
20
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Rutgers School of Engineering
2000-2001
Total
2011-2012
Female
Total
Female
Undergraduate degrees
399
104 (21%)
Graduate degrees
150
40 (27%)
184
59 (32%)
45
11 (24%)
42
17 (40%)
PhD degrees
Tenure-track faculty
123
677 126 (19%)
11 (8%) 142
14
12
10
% ECE Minority
Enrollment
8
Female
6
Black
4
2
0
2009
2010
2011
2012
23 (16%)