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Research Areas Bioengineering Biometrics Communications and Signal Processing Computer Forensics and Security Computer Systems Electronics and Photonics Power and Control Systems Software Engineering & Software Metrics Theory of Computation

The department is enthusiastically and vigorously involved in research, technical publication, and graduate instruction at the forefront of the field. The areas of emphasis are:

• Bioengineering is the multidisciplinary application of engineering to medicine and biology including such areas as biomedical signal and image processing, medical informatics, and biomedical instrumentation
• Biometrics is a specific area of bioengineering in which biological signatures (fingerprint, voice, face, DNA) is used for identification or authentication in criminal justice, e-commerce, and medical applications.
• Communications and signal processing though distinct topics, share a strong overlap and form a joint thrust. Communications has evolved rapidly from the basic voice telephone service to a rich set of communications systems carrying voice, data, video, and other information. Advances in signal processing theory, physical technologies, and powerful digital signal processors (DSPs) have combined to dramatically expand the applications of signal processing.
• Electronics and photonics initially microelectronics and now pushing well into nanoelectronics is at a crossroads where further developments are forcing researchers to take a closer look at quantum mechanical processes to design and fabricate small dimensional devices.
• Power and control systems historically have been an area of emphasis in the electrical engineering curriculum. Recent and current research activities include reliability, grounding, transmission, electric transportation, modeling, stability analysis, optimal design, design of modulation controllers for multiterminal ac/dc power systems, electric drives, electric machines, advanced motion control systems, and power electronics.
• Software engineering and software metrics covers a well-defined and integrated set of activities to produce correct, consistent software products effectively and efficiently. Evaluating the quality attributes of software architectures has become a major research focus. We recognize that advances in quantitative measurement are crucial to the vitality of the discipline of software engineering.
• Theory of computation covers a variety of areas ranging from foundational mathematics to analysis of the performance of algorithms. A core of faculty performs research in areas such as graph theory, topology, and discrete mathematics.