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).

For more information on the WeStudy app, visit Woolf's and King's YouTube video or try out the app online.  A full list of winners will be posted on on the Mobile Apps Challenge website in February. 

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.

 

 

 

Forbes has released its list of the top five college degrees with the biggest salaries. Coming in at number three on the list is Computer Engineering. According to the Forbes article, graduates can expect an average starting salary of $64,499 and an increase of 21% in the jobs market between now and 2018.

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

Professor Chris Mi of ECE along with other eight professors in CECS (Yi Zhang, Dohoy Jung, Eric Ratts, John Cherng and Ben Q. Li of ME, Taehyung Kim and Yi Lu Murphey of ECE and Zhimin Xi of ISME) have been awarded $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Graduate Automotive Technology Education initiative to establish a GATE Center for Electric Drive Transportation. The center will build upon existing programs in the area of electric drive vehicles, including battery electric vehicles, extended-range electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Read the full story here .

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.  

 

Congratulations to the Intelligent Systems Club(ISC) for winning the second place during the 8th Annual ION Robotic Lawn Mower Competition in Dayton, OH on June 2-4.

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.

Congratulation to the "Theta Tau Chapter" of HKN for receiving the Outstanding Chapter Award for 2009-2010. This coveted award is a mark of great distinction for a college chapter. Chapters are judged on their activities of service to others, and all chapters with exemplary programs can win.