Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering
| Type | Academic department |
|---|---|
| Chair | Dr. Edward Knightly |
| Location | , |
| Affiliations | Rice University George R. Brown School of Engineering |
| Website | [1] |
The Rice University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is one of nine academic departments at the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Edward Knightly is the Department Chair. Originally the Rice Department of Electrical Engineering, it was renamed in 1984 to Electrical and Computer Engineering.[1]
Degree Programs
Rice University Electrical and Computer Engineering offers a variety of graduate and undergraduate degree programs.[2]
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)
- Bachelor of Arts in Electrical Engineering (BA)
- Professional Master of Electrical Engineering (MEE)[3]
- Master of Science / Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering (MS/PhD)
- Joint Master of Business Administration and Professional Master of Electrical Engineering
Undergraduate Studies
The Rice BSEE degree program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET*. The BSEE degree is the usual degree taken by undergraduate students planning a career in electrical and computer engineering. The Rice BA program can be combined with courses from other departments to create an interdisciplinary program. The program leading to the BA Degree is not accredited by ABET[4]
Graduate Studies
The Rice ECE MS/PhD program is a doctoral thesis research program. A stand-alone thesis MS degree program is not offered. The Rice ECE MEE is a non-thesis master’s program consisting of coursework.[5]
List of Faculty
- Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor
- Athanasios C. Antoulas, Professor
- Aydin Babakhani, Assistant Professor
- Richard Baraniuk, Victor E. Cameron Professor and Director, OpenStax CNX
- Joseph C. Cavallaro, Professor and Director, Rice Center for Multimedia Communication
- John W. Clark, Jr., Professor
- Naomi J. Halas, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Director, Smalley-Curl Institute[6]
- Kevin Kelly, Associate Professor and Chair, Applied Physics Program
- Caleb Kemere, Assistant Professor
- Edward W. Knightly, Department Chair, ECE and Professor
- Junichiro Kono, Professor
- Farinaz Koushanfar, Associate Professor
- Michael T. Orchard, Professor
- Xaq Pitkow, Assistant Professor
- Jacob Robinson, Assistant Professor
- Ashutosh Sabharwal, Professor and Founder, WARP
- Isabell Thomann, Assistant Professor
- Frank K. Tittel, J.S. Abercrombie Professor
- Peter J. Varman, Professor
- Ashok Veeraraghavan, Assistant Professor
- Lin Zhong, Associate Professor
Faculty Awards and Honors
The Rice University ECE department has 21 tenure-track faculty, three emeritus faculty, and three professors in the practice.[7] Of these, there are:
- 14 IEEE fellows (three emeritus and two professors in the practice)
- 8 NSF CAREER Awards
- 3 Optical Society of America Fellows
- 3 American Physical Society Fellows
- 3 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows
- 3 DARPA Young Faculty Awards
- 3 NSF Young Investigator Awards
- 2 International Society for Optics and Photonics Fellows (SPIE)
- 1 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member
- 1 Presidential Early Career Award Winner
- 1 National Academy of Engineering Member[8]
- 1 National Academy of Sciences Member[9]
- 1 Materials Research Society Member[10]
- 1 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award[11]
- 1 Sloan Fellow[12]
- 1 IEEE Jack Kilby Medalist[13]
- Rice ECE has an undergraduate student chapter of IEEE. Current presidents are Julia Kwok and Leo Meister. [20]
- The EtherNest is an open-maker space and student organization supported by Texas Instruments. It is a workspace and prototyping facility. The current president is John Haug.[21]
- Women ExCEL is a network of women in the ECE department at Rice University that aims to provide community, mentoring, and cultural enrichment. Current officers are Sudha Yellapantula, Bita Rouhani Darvish, and Pratishka Dongare.
- Rice ECE graduate students participate in the Rice Graduate Student Association. Their mission is to enrich the graduate student experience and to represent, support, and promote graduate student interests and values.
- ECE has a graduate student mentoring program for MEE and PhD students.
- Rice has a chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, an electrical and computer engineering student honor society.[22]
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- ^ http://www.ece.rice.edu/academics/
- ^ http://www.petersons.com/graduate-schools/rice-university-george-r-brown-school-of-engineering-department-of-electrical-and-computer-engineering-000_10025648.aspx
- ^ http://www.ece.rice.edu/academics/undergrad.aspx
- ^ http://www.ece.rice.edu/academics/graduate.aspx
- ^ http://sci.rice.edu
- ^ http://www.ece.rice.edu/faculty/
- ^ https://www.nae.edu/107882.aspx
- ^ http://spie.org/x93811.xml
- ^ http://www.mrs.org/mrs-fellows-2013/
- ^ http://www.onr.navy.mil/en/Science-Technology/Directorates/office-research-discovery-invention/Sponsored-Research/YIP/2009-young-investigator-recipients.aspx
- ^ http://www.ece.rice.edu/awards2/
- ^ http://www.ieee.org/documents/kilby_medal_release.pdf
- ^ http://www.ece.rice.edu/research/
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- ^ http://www.ece.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=2147484234
- ^ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/halas-nanoshell.html
- ^ https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/r5_student_branches_september_2014.pdf
- ^ http://ethernest.rice.edu
- ^ https://www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/ieee_hkn/chapters/chapter_directory_by_university.pdf
- Official Website
- Student Community
Research
Rice ECE Faculty perform research in the following areas: Computer Engineering; Data Science, Neuroengineering; Photonics, Electronics and Nano-devices, and Systems.[14] Rice has a long history in digital signal processing (DSP) dating back to its inception in the late 1960s.
Computer Engineering faculty have a research focus in in analog and mixed-signal design, VLSI signal processing, computer architecture and embedded systems, biosensors and computer vision, and hardware security and storage systems, including applications to education[15]. Biosensors and mobile wireless healthcare [16] are growing application areas in embedded systems research. Smartphones with imaging devices are leading to new areas in computer vision and sensing. In the area of computer architecture, research interests include parallel computing, large-scale storage systems, and resource scheduling for performance and power.
Data Science faculty integrate the foundations, tools and techniques involving data acquisition (sensors and systems), data analytics (machine learning, statistics), data storage and computing infrastructure (GPU/CPU computing, FPGAs, cloud computing, security and privacy) in order to enable meaningful extraction of actionable information from diverse and potentially massive data sources.
Neuroengineering faculty are members of the Rice Center for Neuroengineering, a collaborative effort with Texas Medical Center researchers[17]. They develop technology for treating and diagnosing neural diseases. Current research areas include interrogating neural circuits at the cellular level, analyzing neuronal data in real-time, and manipulating healthy or diseased neural circuit activity and connectivity using nano electronics, optics, and emerging photonics technologies.
Photonics, Electronics and Nano-device researchers focus on nanophotonics and plasmonics, optical nanosensor and nano-actuator development, studies of new materials, in particular nanomaterials and magnetically active materials; imaging and image processing, including multispectral imaging and terahertz imaging; ultrafast spectroscopy and dynamics; laser applications in remote and point sensing, especially for trace gas detection;[18] nanometer-scale characterization of surfaces, molecules, and devices; organic semiconductor devices; single-molecule transistors; and applications of Nanoshells[19] in biomedicine.
Current Rice ECE Systems research spans a wide range of areas including image and video analysis, representation, and compression; wavelets and multiscale methods; statistical signal processing, pattern recognition, and learning theory; distributed signal processing and sensor networks; communication systems; computational neuroscience; and wireless networking.