**Please note, this event has been rescheduled from March 29, 2013**

On Friday, April 5, 2013 Dr. Hafiz Malik will be hosting a Forensics Workshop from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in 201 ELB.

Hosted by IEEE, the event is open to anyone interested in learning the process
of manipulating hardware to discover digital data.

Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP.  RSVPs should be sent to  ieee@engin.umd.umich.edu.

To download the flyer, click here.

The winners of the Fall 2012 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mobile Apps Challenge have been announced. ECE undergraduate student Cory Woolf took first place in the Education category for the second year in a row, and fifth overall, with his CourseFeeds app. CourseFeeds is an academic resource aggregation app compatible with all major web-browsers.

In the Fall 2011 challenge, Woolf and his partner Brandon King, a CIS major, won first place in the Education category for their WeStudy app. That app allowed students to easily schedule study groups and integrated mapping and e-mail connectivity.

Both the CourseFeeds and WeStudy apps were developed as part of the annual Summer Engineering Project hosted by the Institute for Advanced Vehicle Systems, directed by IAVS Director Roger Shulze.

CourseFeeds launched in January and can be accessed at http://www.coursefeeds.com.  For a demo of the CourseFeeds app and other winners, visit http://mobileapps.umich.edu/content/winners-fall-2012-u-m-mobile-apps-challenge.

Thursday, April 11, 2013
4:30 - 7:00 pm

Lobby, Institute for Advanced Vehicle Systems (IAVS) Building
4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI

Get information about our Master's and Doctoral programs.

Offerings include:

Automotive Systems Engineering (Ph.D.)

Information Systems Engineering (Ph.D.)

Automotive Systems Engineering (MSE)

Computer and Information Science (MS)

Computer Engineering (MSE)

Dual MBA/Industrial and Systems Engineering (MSE)

Electrical Engineering (MSE)

Engineering Management (MS)

Energy Systems Engineering (MSE)

Industrial and Systems Engineering (MSE)

Information Systems and Technology (MS)

Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE)

Mechanical Engineering (MSE)

Program and Project Management (MS)

Software Engineering (MS)

Learn about the admissions process and financial aid.

For attending, we will waive the $60 application fee to a College of Engineering and Computer Science graduate program!

Questions about the event please contact Deidra Berry, Graduate Recruitment Coordinator, at (313)593-0897 or deeberry@umd.umich.edu

RVSP at http://www.umd.umich.edu/cecsopenhouse

Mark your calendars!  HKN will be hosting a demonstration of the Ford SYNC on March 5, 2013 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in 198 ELB.

Ford SYNC is an in-vehicle system that allows users to make hands-free phone calls or control music through the use of voice commands. The system was developed by Ford and third-party developers, and runs on the Windows Embedded Automotive operating system designed by Microsoft. 

There will be a chance to learn more about Ford careers and submit your resumes.

For more information, please see this flyer .

HKN will be hosting two informational meetings this week. Invitees are encouraged to attend the seminar on Tuesday or Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. and learn about the benefits to joining, or e-mail hkn.umd@gmail.com for more info.

 Please see this flyer for details.

Three teams from U of M-Dearborn took part in the 2013 ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition in St. Paul, MN January 24-27. Led by their advisor, Dr. Nattu Natarajan, the university's big winner was Team Yeti, which took a third place win and was awarded $3,000 and the Bronze Snow Globe Award. Team Geili came in fifth and won $700. Team Bang had serious problems with their plow in the first round of the competition and were unable to recover, ending the competition in eighth place.

Team Yeti used a brand new vehicle designed as part of their senior design project by Mark Bajor, Mengxing Chen, Craig Cowing, and Cody Schmitt and the software for the robot was developed by Angelo Bertani and Zach DeGeorge. Teams Geili and Bang used an existing platform designed by Alan Akroush. Team Geili consisted of Doris Kotori, Derek Langley, Wangsong Li, Shihe Liu, Xuanchen Liu, Ken Yesh, Mohan Zhou, Qi Zhou. Team Bang consisted of Jingwei Xiong, Qijie Xu, Junyao Wang, Jiaqi Ma, Qihao Deng, and Yang Xiong.

Each of UM-Dearborn's three teams was composed of students belonging to the Intelligent Systems Club. The ION snowplow competition began in 2011, with members of the ISC participating in the event each year. Team Yeti has been a mainstay in the event since that inaugural competition, where they came in fourth before moving up to a third place victory in 2012.

The Intelligent Systems Club began in 2002 and works to promote robotics and the development of technical knowledge. In addition to the snowplow competition, the club regularly competes in the Autonomous Lawnmower Competition, Intelligent Ground Vehicle Challenge, and the Freescale Cup Challenge, among others. For more information on the ISC, see http://isc.umd.umich.edu/.

Nick Sitarski, a graduate of UM-D's Electrical Engineering program and, now, Senior Engineer for Electrical Systems, Avalon, was a designer on the 2013 Toyota Avalon's Intellitouch capacitive switches and wireless charging system. The Avalon is the first car certified to the Qi standard for in-vehicle wireless cell phone charging, a technology that is expected to be available this spring.

Read more at http://www.sae.org/mags/sve/11712/ .

Dr. Selim Awad will be presenting a two-day seminar on MATLAB Friday, Feb. 15 and Friday, Feb. 22, 2013.  Both sessions will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in 201 ELB.

Through a live demonstration and hands-on learning, Dr. Awad will introduce students to the MATLAB software, as well as some of the supplementary software packages, like Toolbox. 

Engineers of all disciplines are encouraged to attend.

For more information or to RSVP, please contact IEEE at ieee@engin.umd.umich.edu.  Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP.

You can view the event flyer by click here.

Applications are now being accepted for the Buick Achievers Scholarship Program .  The deadline to apply is 5:00 p.m., Feb. 28, 2013.  The scholarship is open to high school seniors and undergradute students who enroll, or are planning on enrolling, full-time to a four-year college or university for the 2013-2014 academic year and will be studying engineering, technology, design, or business, with an interest in the automotive industry.

To learn more about this scholarship opporunity, please visit http://www.buickachievers.com .

Information on the CIS-ECE-IMSE Distinguished Lecture Series has been announced for the Winter 2013 semester.

Click the image for the full-sized .pdf.

Qualified candidates must have, or expect to have, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline by the time of appointment and will be expected to do scholarly and sponsored research, as well as teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Candidates at the associate or full professor ranks should already have an established funded research program. The ECE Department offers several BS and MS degrees, and participates in two interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs, Ph.D. in Automotive Systems Engineering and Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering. The current funded research areas in the department include intelligent systems, power electronics, hybrid vehicles, battery management, computer networks, wireless communications, and embedded systems.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) is one of the three campuses of the University of Michigan. UM-Dearborn is a comprehensive university offering high quality undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education to residents of southeastern Michigan, and attracts more than 9,000 students. Faculty and students have the opportunity to collaborate across all three campuses in research and scholarly activity. UM-Dearborn is located ten miles west of Detroit and thirty-five miles east of Ann Arbor. The campus is strategically located on 200 suburban acres of the original Henry Ford Estate in the Greater Detroit Metropolitan region.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University of Michigan-Dearborn is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. Inquiries or complaints may be addressed Office of Institutional Equity, 4901 Evergreen Road, Suite 1020, Administrative Services Building, Dearborn, Michigan 48128-1491, (313) 593-5190. For other University of Michigan information call 734-764-1817.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae including e-mail address, teaching statement, research statement, and a list of thee to five referees. The complete application should be sent to, Dr. Chris Mi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Michigan, 48128, or emailed to chrismi@umd.umich.edu. Phone: 313-593-5420, Fax: 313-583-6336.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Qualified candidates must have, or expect to have, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline by the time of appointment and will be expected to do scholarly and sponsored research, as well as teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Candidates at the associate or full professor ranks should already have an established funded research program. The ECE Department offers several BS and MS degrees, and participates in two interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs, Ph.D. in Automotive Systems Engineering and Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering. The current funded research areas in the department include intelligent systems, power electronics, hybrid vehicles, battery management, computer networks, wireless communications, and embedded systems.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-Dearborn) is one of the three campuses of the University of Michigan. UM-Dearborn is a comprehensive university offering high quality undergraduate, graduate, professional and continuing education to residents of southeastern Michigan, and attracts more than 9,000 students. Faculty and students have the opportunity to collaborate across all three campuses in research and scholarly activity. UM-Dearborn is located ten miles west of Detroit and thirty-five miles east of Ann Arbor. The campus is strategically located on 200 suburban acres of the original Henry Ford Estate in the Greater Detroit Metropolitan region.

The University of Michigan-Dearborn, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action. The University of Michigan-Dearborn is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions. Inquiries or complaints may be addressed Office of Institutional Equity, 4901 Evergreen Road, Suite 1020, Administrative Services Building, Dearborn, Michigan 48128-1491, (313) 593-5190. For other University of Michigan information call 734-764-1817.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae including e-mail address, teaching statement, research statement, and a list of three to five references. The complete application should be sent to, Dr. Yi Lu Murphey, Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Michigan, 48128, or emailed to yilu@umich.edu.

Phone: 313-593-5420, Fax: 313-583-6336

The University of Michigan-Dearborn is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Students - This is your chance to meet the Department Chair, Dr. Yi Lu Murphey.

The event will be held in 227 ELB on Thursday, Oct. 25 from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Pizza will be provided for those who attend. 

The University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position. Qualified individuals seeking an Assistant Professorship are invited to apply but outstanding faculty at the Associate Professor and Professor levels will also be considered. The ECE Department is looking for applicants whose research interests are in areas such as solid state electronics, MEMS, nanoelectronics, and power semiconductor devices. The selected candidate is expected to establish an excellent externally funded research program in the chosen area.

IEEE GOLD will be hosting a poster session for all IEEE GOLD and student members at the upcoming IEEE Fall Section Conference on November 14, 2012 at the Fairlane Center, University of Michigan-Dearborn. All student, graduate student, and GOLD (graduates of the last decade) members are invited to participate. A best poster award will be given to the top presented poster, as judged by the review committee. Poster topics related to any of the chapters / societies represented in the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section (www.ieee-sem.org) are encouraged. Poster participants will be given complimentary registration to the conference and awards dinner. More information about the conference is at: http://www.ieee-sem.orgfall .

Authors wishing to participate in the poster session must submit a poster title and abstract (less than 150 words) to Rajeev Verma (rajverma@ieee.org) by no later than October 31, 2012. The suggested poster size is 4 feet by 3 feet, and should contain large text to be read from a distance. Poster authors should attend and present their posters during the poster session from approximately 4:30 pm until 5:00 pm, and 7:00 pm until 7:30 pm on the day of the conference.

Two University of Michigan - Dearborn students were recently named runner-up winners for the Fall 2011 Mobile Apps Challenge .

Cory Woolf, an ECE student, and Brandon King, a CIS major, teamed up to develop the WeStudy app. The app allows students to easily schedule study groups and integrates mapping and e-mail connectivity.

 The challenge is hosted by the Mobile Apps Center at the U of M campus in Ann Arbor. Participants are allowed to submit as many mobile apps as they wish, and are judged based on creativity, usability, and utility by experts from U of M, Apple, and Google.

Woolf and King were awarded an iPad for their contribution to the challenge. The team was supervised by Associate Professors Paul Watta (ECE) and Brahim Medjahed (CIS).

This winter we will be offering a new undergraduate course, ECE 428 "Cloud Computing" (CRN 27660).

Cloud computing represents the emerging Internet-based services/platforms with elastic and scalable computation powers operating at costs associated with service. Topics of the course include advanced web technologies, distributed computing models and technologies, software as a service (SaaS), virtualization, pallelization, security/privacy and the advance in cloud computing. Course work includes building up a SaaS project. (3 credit hours)

This cousre will be held on Monday 6:10-9:00 pm, 1340 PEC,with Professor Shaout.

This is the course schedule for Winter 2012. Click on the images to view in full-size or save to your local disk.

The original article can be viewed here or as a slideshow summary.

The Winter 2012 course listing is now available through UM-D Connect.  Registration begins in November.  Please review the Registration Timetable to find out when you will be eligible to register.

The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering is proud to present several new course offerings for both undergraduate and gradute-level students for the Winter 2012 semester.  These include:

ECE 435: Introduction to Mobile/Smart Devices and Technologies
Time: Wednesday 6:10 - 9:00 p.m.
Instructor: Paul Watta

Prerequisite: ECE 372 or equivalent
4.000 Credits

This class will introduce students to the technology used in mobile/smart devices and mobile communication networks. Various hardware and software aspects will be introduced, with particular emphasis on the constraints intrinsic to such systems. Students will get an overview of various mobile operating systems and how to develop software for mobile devices. Four lecture hours per week.

ECE 528: Cloud Computing
Time: Monday 6:10 - 9:00 p.m.
Instructor: Adnan Shaout

3.000 Credits

Cloud computing represents the emerging Internet-based services/platforms with elastic and scalable computation powers operating at costs associated with service. Topics of the course include advanced web technologies, distributed computing models and technologies, software as a service (SaaS), virtualization, pallelization, security/privacy and the advance in cloud computing. Course work includes building up a SaaS project. Three lecture hours per week.

ECE 530: Energy Storage Systems
Time: Thursday 6:10 - 9:00 p.m.
Instructor: Gary Crosbie

3.000 Credits

This course introduces the basics of energy storage systems for EDV. It will cover battery basics, ultracapacitors, flywheels, and hybrid energy storage concepts. Battery management, battery charging, and battery safety will be covered. Finally, the requirements of EDV and renewable energy application examples will be explained. Lead acid, nickel metal hydride, and lithium ion batteries will be covered. Other energy storage systems such as super conducting magnetic, hydraulic, compressed air, and integrated (hybrid) energy storage systems, will be discussed as well.

ECE 535: Mobile Devices and Ubiquitous Computing Systems
Time: Wednesday 6:10 - 9:00 p.m.
Instructor: Paul Watta

3.000 Credits

This class will introduce students to the technology used in mobile/smart devices and mobile communication networks. Various hardware and software aspects will be introduces, with particular emphasis on the constraints intrinsic to such system. Students will get an overview of various mobile operating systems and will learn how to develop software for mobile devices. The topics of ubiquitous and pervasive computing will be introduced and discussed. Three lecture hours per week.

ECE 5752: Reconfigurable Computing

Time: Thursday 6:10 - 9:00 p.m.

Instructor: Ali ElKateeb

3.000 Credits

This course addresses advances in reconfigurable computing techniques, design, and research. The course topics include introduction to RC, Hardware Description Language (HDL) such as VHDL and Verilog HDL, System-On-Chip (SOC), and Network-On-Chip (NOC). Three lecture hours per week.  

The ISC has been active at UM-D since 2002 and is advised by Prof. "Nattu" Natarajan. The club works to promote robotics and engages students in robotics competitions, which challenge students to design and build autonomous vehicles capable of navigating obstacle courses of a varying nature.