Recent News
Milosevic wins award for research on high-speed, low-power communications
ECE alumnus Pavle Milosevic (MSEE '07, PhD '11), received the Best Poster Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS).Recent News Headlines
- Gabriel Popescu writes the book on innovative new imaging technique
- Bashir elected fellow of AAAS
- Başar elected to the Council of the International Federation of Automatic Control
- Researchers receive grant to improve efficiency, reliability of networked systems
ECE Featured Videos
Wireless glove controlled electric mountainboard
ECE grad student Andres Guzman-Ballen developed a glove-controlled mountainboard.
Illinois faculty interviews
ECE's Marie-Christine Brunet is featured in a video of Illinois faculty interviews.
A Brilliant Idea: Nick Holonyak, Jr. and the LED
ECE Professor Nick Holonyak Jr. is profiled in a Big Ten Network documentary.
Illinois Solar Decathlon: Electrical engineering team
ECE ILLINOIS students help design and build the Illinois 2011 Solar Decathlon entry, Re_home. The team leader explains what the students have been developing.
The Future of Solar Power
ECE Professor Phillip Krein discusses current and upcoming innovations in solar power production.
ECE Senior Design: Emergency Detection System
A Senior Design project that warns motorists of approaching emergency vehicles.
2011 Solar Decathlon: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An introduction to the Illinois 2011 Solar Decathlon entry: Re-Home.
Internet-controlled power wheels car demonstration
ECE students rigged a power wheels car to be controlled using a smartphone or iPad.
Additive synthesizer
ECE 385 students created a MIDI keyboard with synthesizer functionality.
Engineer in Residence: Michael McCorquodale
ECE alumnus Michael McCorquodale (BSEE '97) tells students his experiences of creating a start-up, developing it, and then selling it to a larger corporation.
Spark of Genius: The Story of John Bardeen
This Big Ten Network program examines life and work of John Bardeen.
ECE Senior Design: Inductive coupling piano
Watch the semester-long process of moving from concept to final design of a Senior Design project.
Pie Professor Lumetta!
ECE student organization WECE raised money to support cancer research. One lucky contributor won the opportunity to "pie" ECE Professor Steve Lumetta.
Brain-Computer Interface
University of Illinois neuroscience research is using feedback information to design Brain-Machine Interfaces. BMI holds great possibility in providing a means for disabled people to communicate more easily.
EOH 2010 @ Everitt Lab
Engineering Open House 2010--a great experience for engineering enthusiasts of all ages, not to mention the incredible students who run the event and create the projects on display.
Inside the Anechoic Chamber
What's an anechoic chamber? Take a peek inside this unique learning environment at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois.
Measuring the Seebeck Coefficient of Lithium
ECE freshman Maryann Tung describes work she's doing at the Center for Plasma-Material Interactions.
Tesla Roadster @ ECE
Tesla roadsters swung through Champaign-Urbana, Alma Mater of Tesla co-founder, Martin Eberhard, on their way to the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.
Why live in CU?
What? Live in CU? Only if you like a smart, innovative, micro-urban place that offers some of everything.
ECE Strike 2009
ECE Strike, a student event that includes faculty participants, is sponsored by the ECE Student Advisory Committee.
PURE, December 2009
Promoting Undergraduate Research in ECE or PURE...a great program that exposes ECE undergrads to the joys of research.
Senior Design, Fall 2009
Senior Design is the culmination of the ECE program. Each semester, students create amazing projects in this class.
Gable Home arrives on campus
ECE ILLINOIS students factored heavily in the 2009 Solar Decathlon team, which showcased its fine work on the National Mall in Washington, DC. This video shows Gable Home being delivered to campus.
ECE ILLINOIS Freshmen Welcome Events 2009
An overview of the ECE Freshmen Mentor picnic and Freshmen Fusion, fall 2009.
Solar Decathlon Open House 2009
The Illinois Solar Decathlon team showed off Gable Home and its innovative, energy efficient features.
Musical Tesla Coils at EOH 2008
Two 6' tall Tesla coils controlled by the Haken Continuum Fingerboard play music at the 2008 Engineering Open House.
Nobel Prize for Transistor
Newsreel from 1956 showing William Shockley, Walter Brattain, and Illinios' John Bardeen receiving the Nobel Prize for the transistor.
ECE 210
Analog Signal Processing teaches students key signal processing theory and provides application of this theory in the laboratory through the construction of an AM radio. Emphasis is given to circuit analysis, differential equations, convolutions, and applications in filtering. Students learn to use advanced options on the oscilloscope and other engineering tools and see the application of diodes, capacitors, and resistors. At the conclusion of the semester students tune their newly designed radio to their favorite AM station to see their design at work!
ECE 415
The objective of ECE 415: Biomedical Instrumentation, is to prepare students for the ever-increasing convergence of engineering, medicine, and biology. Using a hands-on, in-the-laboratory approach, this class teaches students the basics of engineering and designing the detection, acquisition, processing, and display of biosignals from living systems. Measuring signals from the body, making amplifiers, and measuring brain waves and muscles
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ECE 444
Theory and Fabrication of Integrated Circuit Devices is a pioneering class that uses the departments state-of-the-art fabrication lab. The goal of this course is to give students a thorough understanding of the design and process technology of modern integrated circuits. This lab provides hands-on exposure to all aspects of processing technology, experience in the design of semiconductor device processes and a clear understanding of the economic and technical trade-offs inherent in this industry. By the end of the semester, students will have experience with each step of the integrated circuit manufacturing process.
ECE 469
Power Electronics teaches students the hands-on aspects of power electronics including the use of electronic circuits for processing and control of electrical energy. This class covers conventional and non-conventional energy sources and requirements including batteries, solar power, motor control, alternative resource conversion, and hybrid and electric vehicles. Interested in making revolutionary changes to how we process, deliver, and use energy? Any student with a serious interest in our energy future should take this class.
ECE 460
ECE 460: Optical Imaging covers visible and infrared imaging systems including fields, optical elements, electronic sensors, and embedded processing systems.
William O'Brien on the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory
William O'Brien, director of the Bioacoustics Research Laboratory at the Beckman Institute, is pushing ultrasound imaging methods in new directions.
Stephen Boppart on the Bioimaging Science and Technology Group
Boppart is director of the Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory at Beckman, where he has developed novel methods and technologies for biological imaging.
Low Latency MIDI Guitar
For a student final project in ECE 445 Senior Design, we created a low latency MIDI guitar adapter system, using a hex pickup and microcontroller.
EOH on WCIA
EOH 2008: Live miniature demonstration of the Tesla Coil Continuum Music and Light Show on WCIA.
Nick Holonyak Jr. 2004 Lemelson-MIT Prize Winner
Holonyak invented the first practical LED (light emitting diode), the first visible-spectrum semiconductor laser and the household dimmer switch.
ECE 110 Car Final Design
This was our ECE 110 final design. I'm so glad it's over, but I had a great time with the project!
Alumnus Jack Kilby Nobel Prize Press Conference
Jack Kilby press conference at Texas Instruments announcing his Nobel Prize award.
Alumnus Jack Kilby on IC Invention
From the mid-90s with engineer Harvey Cragon and Willis Adcock who, as head of Semiconductor R&D, hired Kilby. The three reflect on their roles in the creation of the integrated circuit.
Overview of the Beckman Institute
Produced by the the Beckman's Imaging Technology Group and WILL, this video provides an overview of Beckman and its interdisciplinary research.
AMD Jerry Sanders Course Set Up 2007
Time lapse video of the course set up involving eight tons of steel, wood, and carpet assembled in a gym in two days.
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ECE by the Numbers
The approximate number of living ECE ILLINOIS alumni.
The average starting salary for students graduating with a BS in computer engineering. That’s more than $7,000 higher than the national average.
The number of companies recruiting ECE students during the 2010-2011 academic year.
The number of ECE professors. You’ll find an expert here in every area of electrical and computer engineering.
The average starting salary for students graduating with a BS in electrical engineering. That’s almost $6,000 higher than the national average.