Department of Electrical Engineering
Dallas: Location, Location, Location
#2 High-Tech Center in USA
Home to: Texas Instruments,
EDS, Lockheed Martin,
Raytheon, American Airlines,
Sabre, ExxonMobil, TXU,
Austin Industries and many
more
Don’t forget the Cowboys,
Mavs, Rangers, and some of
the best visual and performing
arts in the country
And…more restaurants per
capita than NYC!
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SMU
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SMU Information
• Southern Methodist University
• Founded: 1911
• Seven Schools
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Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
Cox School of Business
Meadows School of Arts
School of Engineering
Dedman School of Law
Perkins School of Theology
• Demographics
– 6,500 Undergraduate students
– 4,500 Graduate students
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School of Engineering
• Student Profile
– More than 600 undergraduate students and over
1,000 graduate-level students.
– Have one of the highest profiles of female students in
the country at 30% - and growing!
– 70% receive scholarships or financial aid
• Faculty
– 50+ faculty
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The Engineering Quadrangle
New front door of SMU Campus
Caruth Hall
Jerry R. Junkins Building
New Embrey Engineering
Building
Blanton Student Services
Building
Collins Executive Education
Center
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Engineering Outreach
• 2001 Created the Institute for Engineering Education first Federally Funded Institute focused on Engineering at
all grade levels
• Created The Infinity Project – one of the nation’s largest
pre-college engineering education programs
• Founder of Visioneering – key national event for National
Engineers Week –with companion national TV Show seen
by 8 million students across the country
• Gender Parity Initiative – first engineering school in the
country to set goal of 50% women
• Math/Science Readiness Camps – regional summer
program to increase math/science preparedness in
disadvantaged communities
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The Infinity Project
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First comprehensive high-tech
engineering curriculum for high schools
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Taught in 21 states today
Offer curriculum, technology, professional
development for teachers
Funded by State of Texas, DOE, NSF, TI,
with support from National Instruments
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Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison with Infinity
Project students
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Academic Programs and
School Organization
• Bachelors Degrees in
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Computer Science/Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Environment Engineering/Science
Civil Engineering
Management Science
• School of Engineering
Departments
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Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Environmental and Civil Engineering
Engineering Management and
Information Systems
• Masters Degrees offered in the
Executive Format
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Engineering Management
Systems Engineering
Software Engineering
Security Engineering
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EE Faculty
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15 Regular Faculty
One Senior Lecturer
Two Courtesy Appointments with CSE
Two Research Appointments with
Physics
• 15 Adjunct Faculty
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EE Student Enrollments
Undergraduate
87
EE Graduate
186
Class Statistics – Fall 2006
Undergraduate
14
Senior Electives/Graduate 12
Advanced Graduate
8
(All graduate classes are video recorded)
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EE Degrees Awarded
120
100
80
BSEE
MSEE
MSTE
PhD
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40
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20032004
20042005
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EE Dept Areas of Expertise
• Signal Processing
– Image Processing / Watermarking
– Audio and Speech Processing
– Intelligent Systems / Pattern Recognition
• Communications
– Energy-Efficient Multi-Tier Wireless Networks
– Network Traffic Characterization
– Internet Security
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EE Dept Areas of Expertise (cont’d)
• Optoelectronics
– Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers for
Telecom
– High-Power GSE Lasers
– Free-Space Optical Interconnection Architectures
– Information-Efficient Sensor Architectures
• Computer Engineering
– VLSI Design
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Flat Computation Image Sensor Development
Project Leader: Prof. Marc P. Christensen
 Objective:
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Bulky Fixed
Cameras
Design/build flat camera.
 Results and Impact:
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Applications include helmet
mounted cameras on firefighters
and soldiers to UAV remote
sensing.
 Collaborators:
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Univ. Delaware and Santa Clara
University
Adaptive Flat
Image Sensor
This work will change the way
we collect and process visual
information.
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Acoustic Blind Signal Separation
Project Leader: Scott C. Douglas
Objective: Extract multiple
acoustic signals from
multichannel recordings
Results and Impact: Novel
signal separation algorithms
using short-length filters.
Collaborators: H. Sawada
and S. Makino, NTT (Kyoto)
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Seamless provision of services in
wireless networks
PI: Dinesh Rajan
Objective: Energy efficient
heterogeneous wireless
network design
Results and Impact:
• Substantial decrease in
mobile node transmit
power.
• New environment aware
smart mobile nodes.
• Seamless “call” handovers
across networks
• Primary focus is on PHY
and MAC layers
Cellular
WLAN
Bluetooth
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Panos Papamichalis
 Robust Video Super-Resolution
Producing a high-quality video from a low resolution one.
One of the
LR Frames
Output
HR Frame
 Dynamic Range Compression for High-Contrast Photography
Enhancing underexposed images affected by high-contrast.
Original
Image
Enhanced
Image
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