ECE Welcome Lloyd Harriott — Introduction

ECE Welcome! • Lloyd Harriott - Introduction • Avik Ghosh – What is ECE all about • Maite Brandt-Pearce – Student Panel • Ben Calhoun – Research in ECE www. ece. virginia. edu University of Virginia Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Chance to make a difference! Solar Cells, Renewable energy Supercapacitors, Hybrid Cars Nonlinear and Adaptive Control Information Theory Robotics Smart power grids Embedded Systems Mixed signal ICs RF-MEMS Communication Nano-Photonics Solid State Lighting Terahertz detection Nanoelectronics Fault tolerant Computing Organic Electronics ‘Braintronics’ Healthcare, Medical imaging

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What else are UVa ECEs doing? Lawyers, Business, Policy makers http: //www. ee. virginia. edu/careers/ee/

EE not restrictive! Current jobs from 55 UVA grads, 3 -5 years after graduation Engineer Grad School Law/Medicine Patent Examiner patent attorney Attorney patent examiner US Patent Office Lawyer Work for government Lawyer General Surgery Resident Library assistant Systems Analyst EE for Babcock and Wilcox Application-Specific Integrated Circuit Designer radar systems analyst EE at AAI Corporation, Textron Front End Software Engineer EE dealing w/GPS – military Officer and Flight Test Engineer, U S Air Force EE for government R&D design power distribution and control systems Test Engineer Naval Surface Warfare Center design high-performance data converters RF/Microwave Design Engineer EE working on a voice/data communications Energy Engineer for an energy consulting firm Satellite System Engineer Hardware Engineer Information Tech web consultant IT Consultant web developer Software Developer Entrepreneur IT/Management Consultant software/system engineering Director of Information Technology In EE, CS, Dentistry, Library Sc. @ Yale Harvard Stanford Texas at Austin UVA (2) Other (3) Pitt—Library Science Marketing exec Entrepreneur Asset Management Consultant healthcare-focused private equity fund in charge of a start up that I founded Strategy & Planning - merger and acquisition Banker http: //www. ee. virginia. edu/careers/ee/

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Top Ten Engineering Disciplines by Numbers of Graduates ECE 19, 641 ME 16, 063 CE 8, 935 CS 7, 330 Ch. E 4, 452 Ind 3, 664 BME 2, 917 AE 2, 722 Gen 1, 176 MSE 909 Source: ASEE

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UG program: Top 20 among Ø 300 UG institutions nationwide (US News, 2009) Grad school: Top 20% among 136 programs nationwide (National Research Council, 2010) ~ 28 faculty (plus 3 research faculty) ~ 120 graduate students ~ 60 electrical/computer engineering undergraduate and 35 graduate degrees/yr ~ $8 -10 M/yr external research support Goal ---- ~ Multiple fellows of IEEE, APS, OSA, IOP to be among the top 10 research programs in microelectronic systems ~ Two National Academy of Engineering members Top 20 ranking in Nanotech (Small Times, Princeton Review 2008) http: //www. ee. virginia. edu/careers/ee/

Undergraduate Program • ABET- accredited programs in: – Electrical Engineering – Computer Engineering (joint with CS) • Five concentration areas – Digital systems – Controls – Applied electrophysics – Communications – Microelectronics • Extensive minor options – Biomedical engineering – Systems engineering – Engineering Business – Science and Technology Policy

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