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More than 90 research posters were presented by graduate students in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the 2011 College of Engineering Graduate Symposium, November 11, 2011. Their research included: techniques for studying brain function and treating neurological disorders; techniques for cancer detection; different approaches for improved solar cells; novel techniques for energy scavenging; cutting-edge research in terahertz technologies for various applications; faster and safer MRI scans; integration of optoelectronic and electronic components for continued performance gains in integrated circuits; miniature antennas for wireless devices; nanospacecraft thrusters; energy-hub power networks; the power grid; advanced methods to control walking and running in robots; energy optimization in electronic devices; techniques for object detection for vision and robotic applications; and many more.
Read about these and the many other research posters presented at the Symposium in the Book of Abstracts.
ECE students participated primarily in the following sessions:
Photonics and Applied Physics
Power and Control
RF and Applied Electromagnetics
Solid-State Materials, Devices, & Physics
Earth Science and Remote Sensing |
Energy
MEMS and Mechatronics
Signal Processing and Computer Vision
Systems Engineering, Control and
Communications
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The following awards were earned by ECE graduate students in the Electrical Engineering (EE) and Electrical Engineering:Systems (EE:Systems) programs:
Technical Session Awards
Vikrant Gokhale, "High performance Bulk mode Gallium nitride resonators and filters" in the session: MEMS and Mechatronics. [Advisor: Prof. Mina Rais-Zadeh]
Vasudev Lal, "A Fringe-Capacitance Based Planar Dielectric Sensor for Tissue Identification in Minimally-Invasive Surgery," in the session: Photonics & Applied Physics.
Mads Almassalkhi, "Incentive-based Coordinated Charging Control of Plug-in Electric Vehicles at the Distribution- Transformer Level,"in the session Power & Control. [Advisor: Prof. Ian Hiskens]
Young Jun Song, "Miniaturized Radio Repeater for Enhanced Wireless Connectivity and Improved Channel Capacity," in the session: RF & Applied Electromagnetics. [Advisor: Kamal Sarabandi]
Matt Prelee, "A Sampling Theorem for Manhattan Grids," in the session: Signal Processing & Computer Vision. [Advisor: Prof. Dave Neuhoff]
Anne Itsuno, "MBE Grown HgCdTe nBn Infrared Detectors," in the session: Solid-State Materials, Devices, and Physics. [Advisor: Prof. Jamie Phillips]
Yang Liu, "Is Diversity Gain Worth the Pain: Performance Comparison Between Opportunistic Multi-Channel MAC and Single-Channel MAC," in the session: Systems Engineering, Control & Communication. [Advisor: Prof. Mingyan Liu]
2010 Engineering Graduate Symposium - ECE
2009 Engineering Graduate Symposium - ECE
Posted: November 17, 2011 by
Catharine June
EECS/ECE Communications Coordinator
cmsj@umich.edu or 734-936-2965
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