Electrical and Computer Engineering Department The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Fall 2002

Dr. Reza Adhami

CHAIR’ S CORNER

Joey Christ Alabama’s 2002 Co-op Student of the Year Joey Christ, 2002 Co-op Student of the Year for UAH and the state of Alabama, will graduate in May 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.

As we prepare our engineering programs for another review by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), I pause and ask myself if our students and graduates know, first, the fundamental definition of an engineer and, second, the societal responsibilities as engineers? As you search through dictionaries and other sources, you’ll find that the role of an engineer has not changed through the centuries. The primary task has always been to convert scientific theory into practical applications. The creativity and humanity of engineering was captured by the son of a Quaker blacksmith, born in an Iowa village in 1874. “It [engineering] is a great profession,” he said. “There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it brings jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comfort of life. That is the engineering high privilege.” This blacksmith’s son, Herbert Clark Hoover, went on to become the 31st President of the United States. He had a long and distinguished career as an engineer. In 1994, the Engineering Council for Professional Development (ECPD), currently known as the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), echoed the thinking of Theodore von Karman (1881-1963), an aeronautics engineer known for his work in fluid mechanics. “Scientists explore what is, engineers create what never has been.” This definition clearly states that creativity is an essential ingredient of an engineer. In 1998, ABET offered a definition of engineering that focuses on science, economics, and the benefiting of society: Engineering is the profession in which the knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize economically the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind.

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On September 28, Dr. Ned Audeh, Professor Emeritus, ran the 2002 Big Spring Jam 5K race in Huntsville. This is the first time Dr. Audeh participated in the race. He won second place in his age group.

Joey Christ (left) accepts award from ADTRAN CEO Mark Smith.

His employer, ADTRAN, nominated him as a candidate for UAH Co-op of the Year, which he won. He went on to win the competition for the Alabama Cooperative Education Student of the Year, a prestigious honor awarded annually by the Alabama Association of Colleges and Employers (AACE), a consortium of cooperative education, career services, and employers that provides information on employment opportunities for students and graduates of Alabama colleges and universities. He is now a candidate for the National Cooperative Education Student of the Year. The winner will be announced on January 8, 2003. Cooperative Education is an academic program that combines classroom study with practical work experience directly related to a student's major. This is accomplished through a three-way partnership among employers, students, and the university. The UAH Co-op Program has been providing students with major-related work experience for nearly 25 years. Adtran's Co-op partnership with UAH began in 1990. Joey signed up for the Cooperative Education program as soon as be began attending engineering classes at UAH. His entire Co-op work experience has been at ADTRAN, Inc., in Huntsville. ADTRAN designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services a broad range of high-speed digital transmission products used by telephone companies and corporate end-users to implement advanced digital data services over existing telephone networks. Joey's first semester at ADTRAN was spent working in the component engineering group. His duties included attaining data sheets for varying electrical components used on ADTRAN products. Shortly afterwards,

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Chair’s Corner (continued from page 1) As for the social responsibilities of engineers, President Hoover again sums it up best: The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step-by-step, are hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air and blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned… On the other hand, unlike the doctor, his is not a life among the weak. Unlike the soldier, destruction is not his purpose. Unlike the lawyer, quarrels are not his daily bread. To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.”

It is an honor to be the chair of a department that offers computer, electrical, and optical engineering degrees. Ours has the largest enrollment of any ECE department in the State of Alabama. The department enrolls about 600 undergraduate and 250 graduate students, a total of 850 students. The undergraduate computer engineering students now outnumber electrical engineering students. Our graduate enrollment saw a big jump this Fall. This partially due to our new Master of Science in Software Engineering program and to an increase in industry participation in enlisting our graduates. Our programs will be reviewed by ABET in Fall of 2003. Our faculty, staff, and students have been involved in assessing our courses. Starting this semester, our students in each course will receive a new Student Course Assessment form at the same time as the SIE form. A copy of the Student Assessment form is shown below. I would like to ask each student to complete this form as sincerely as possible. The information provided to the department on this form will be of a great help in assessing the course and improving it.

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

STUDENT COURSE ASSESSMENT

Course: Instructor: Term: Year: Please check ( ) one of the following six indicated responses.

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Assessment Statements 5 4 3 2 1 0

(a) This course required me to apply: 1. Mathematics 2. Science 3. Engineering

(b) This course has provided me the ability to do the following: 1. design experiments 2. conduct experiments 3. analyze data 4. interpret data

(c) This course has provided me the ability to design: 1. a system 2. a component 3. a process

(d) This course has provided me the ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams

(e) This course has provided me the ability to: 1. identify engineering problems 2. formulate engineering problems 3. solve engineering problems

(f) This course has provided me the understanding of: 1. professional responsibility 2. ethical responsibility

(g) This course has provided me the ability to do the following: 1. written communication 2. verbal communication

(h) This course has provided me the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context

(i) This course has provided me the recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning

(j) This course has provided a knowledge of contemporary issues

(k) For engineering practice, this course has provided me the ability to use: 1. techniques 2. skills 3. modern engineering tools

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ECE Graduate Student News

Saikat Saha Ph.D. Student

Sin Ming Loo Ph.D. Student

Nagendra Singh and Saikat Saha, “Magnetic Reconnection in Thin Current Sheets: 3-D Kinetic Simulations,” IPELS 2001, Tokyo, Japan, July 2001. Saikat Saha, N. Singh, P. D. Craven, D. Gallagher, J. Jones, Development of a 3-D Hybrid Code and Its Application to M2P2, STAIF Conference, March 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Development of Simulation Model for Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion (M2P2),” NASA/MSFC STD Branch, Propulsion Workshop, invited talk given by S. Saha, Sept. 17, 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Magnetic Reconnection Initiated By Electrostatic Instabilities,” 2002 Huntsville Workshop on Astrophysical Particle Acceleration from Geospace and Beyond, Chattanooga, TN, October 7-9, 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Hybrid PIC Modeling of M2P2,” 2002 Huntsville Workshop on Astrophysical Particle Acceleration from Geospace and Beyond, Chattanooga, TN, October 7-9, 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Current Disruption and Reconnection in a Harris Current Sheet,” American Geophysical Union 2002 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2002.

Singh, N., S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, and C. Deverapalli, Three-dimensional structure of electron holes driven by an electron beam, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2469, 2000. Nagendra Singh, S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, C. Deverapalli, “Three-dimensional Structure of Electron Holes Driven by an Electron Beam,” AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 27-30, 2000. Nagendra Singh, S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, C. Deverapalli, “Nonlinear Behavior of Electron-Beam-Driven Waves in a Magnetotail Plasma,” AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 27-30, 2000. N. Singh, S. M. Loo, and B. Earl Wells, “Electron hole as an antenna radiating plasma waves,” Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 28, l371, 2001a. N. Singh, S. M. Loo, and B. Earl Wells, “Electron hole structure depending on plasma magnetization,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 106, pp. 21183-21198, 2001b. N. Singh, S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, and G. S. Lahkina, “Evolution of electron beam generated waves resulting into transverse ion heating and filamentation of the plasma,” Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 106, pp. 21165-21182, 2001c.

Chakri Deverapalli Master’s Student

Nagendra Singh, S. M. Loo, and B. Earl Wells, Three-Dimensional Structures of Electron Holes in Magnetized Plasmas, Fourth International Workshop on Nonlinear Waves and Chaos in Space Plasmas, Tromsø, Norway, June 17-22, 2001. "Exploring the Hardware/Software Continuum in a Computer Engineering Capstone Design Class using FPGA-based Programmable Logic," S. M. Loo, B. E. Wells, and R. K. Gaede, Proceedings of the 2001 Int’l Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, Las Vegas, NV, June 17-18, 2001.

Singh, N., S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, and C. Deverapalli, Three-dimensional structure of electron holes driven by an electron beam, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2469, 2000. Nagendra Singh, S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, C. Deverapalli, “Three-dimensional Structure of Electron Holes Driven by an Electron Beam,” AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 27-30, 2000. Nagendra Singh, S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, C. Deverapalli, “Nonlinear Behavior of Electron-Beam-Driven Waves in a Magnetotail Plasma,” AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, June 27-30, 2000. C. Deverapalli, L. Joiner, S. M. Yoo, and H. Choo, "Performance Comparison of Various Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," International Conference on Wireless Networks 2002 (ICWN'02), Las Vegas, pp. 129-135, June 2002. C.Deverapalli, S.M.Yoo, and R. Ramasamy, "A Comparison Study of a Mobile and Stationary Wireless Ad hoc Network," The Huntsville Simulation Conference, October 2002. R.Ramasamy, C.Deverapalli, and S.M.Yoo, "Simulation Study of a Wireless Sensor Network," The Huntsville Simulation Conference, October 2002.

"Case Study: On Performing Efficient Highly Parallel Three-Dimensional PIC based Simulations in Constantly Changing Computing Environments," B. Earl Wells, Sin Ming Loo, and Nagendra Singh, Proceedings of the 2001 Huntsville Simulation Conference (HSC), Huntsville, AL, October 3-4, 2001. "On the Use of Distributed Reconfigurable Hardware in Launch Control Avionics," B. Earl Wells and Sin Ming Loo, Proceedings of the 20th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Datona Beach, FL, October 14-18, 2001. [Session 8B Re-usable Launch Vehicles -- Awarded Best Paper of Session] "Handel C for Rapid Prototyping of VLSI Coprocessors for Real Time Systems ," S. M. Loo, B. Earl Wells, N. Freije, and J. Kulick, Proceedings of the 34th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST), pp. 6-10, Huntsville, AL, March 18-19, 2002. In addition, Sin Ming Loo has co-authored 8 technical manuals with Professor B. Earl Wells on parallel programming, rapid prototyping, Altera, Xillinx design tools, and Handel C.

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Introducing Dr. David Coe Assistant Professor

Introducing Dr. David Pan Assistant Professor

Dr. David Coe joined the ECE Department Faculty in August 2002 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Coe received both his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2002 and 1991, respectively, and his B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in 1989. As an employee of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Dr. Coe has worked as computer programmer, writing C and Prolog programs in support of the ATESSE project that automated the generation of test code for mixed analog/digital circuits. Subsequently, Dr. Coe designed CMOS opto-electronic interface circuits as part of an effort to develop an optically reconfigurable microprocessor. His most recent research included the fabrication and testing of pneumatically actuated, microvalve arrays for modulating synthetic jet airflow. Dr. Coe’s current research interests include the fabrication of integrated microsystems, the development of MEMS biomedical systems, distributed sensing using microsensor systems, and the investigation of alternative power sources for microsystems. In his spare time he enjoys swing, ballroom, and county-western dancing.

Dr. David (Wendi) Pan joined the ECE Department in August 2002 as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Pan received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2002, and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Louisiana in 1998, respectively. Dr. Pan has industrial research experience with AT&T Labs – Research and Advanced System Labs of ST Microelectronics. Dr. Pan has been working in the fields of image and video coding, wireless communications and VLSI architectures. His recent research is focused on variable complexity algorithms in transform video coding, and proxy-based network computing. He is currently studying adaptive computation control in Fano decoding algorithms over memoryless and fading channels. Also, he is interested in developing novel low power VLSI architectures for digital signal processing and wireless communications applications. In his spare time, he likes playing tennis and jogging.

Joey Christ, Alabama’s 2002 Co-op Student of the Year (Continued from page 1) Joey was qualifying new parts to be used on the company's products. During his second semester, he worked in product qualification, and spent a great deal of time reading books and watching tutorials, learning about the basics of networking. “Exact tests had been run many times on the same products,” Joey said. “My job was to take new codes from the design engineers and see how the new codes performed in the products. Working in product qualification gave me a big advantage over other engineering students, because I dealt with the technologies that we discussed in class.” Joey was selected by ADTRAN to be a Co-op ambassador at the university. He has helped set up information seminars for prospective Co-ops, and represented ADTRAN at Engineering Open House, a special event for high school students. “I have encouraged every student to apply for the Co-op program and work diligently in their classes as it will help them to get better jobs. I tell students about how the UAH Co-op program has benefited me in a multitude of ways,” Joey said. “I have had several great opportunities because of my Co-op experience. The hands-on knowledge that I have attained while working has helped me get better grades in several classes. Most importantly, the money that I have earned as a Co-op has given me the opportunity to buy a home.”

Joey also set up and presented a slide show for engineering faculty regarding his Co-op experience at ADTRAN. He loves his work at ADTRAN but also promotes the benefits of Co-op to any student he meets. He is a natural salesman. When he is a guest speaker at the orientations conducted in the Co-op office, the students do not want him to stop talking. His enthusiasm for his job and his professional manner have excited many students who have joined the Co-op program. “Joey demonstrates the enthusiasm and initiative of Co-op students, and it is a pleasure to work with him,” said Suzanne Norris, director of the UAH Cooperative Education Program. “Prospective students have gained first-hand insight into Co-op through Joey's willingness to promote the benefits of the program. He is an excellent ambassador for Co-op and UAH.” During Joey's third semester at UAH as a Co-op student, he worked in ADTRAN's compliance group. “Compliance is responsible for conducting tests that measure emissions radiated from products,” he said. “That is, how resistant a product is to other emissions, and how electrostatic discharge affects products.”

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Dr. Nagendra Singh UAH, 15-Year Service Award Recipient

Professor Nagendra Singh received a UAH 15-year Service Award at the Spring 2002 awards luncheon. Using a fully 3-D parallel PIC code, Singh led the work at UAH on the nonlinear evolution of fast lower hybrid waves in space plasmas. This work contains the first fully kinetic treatment of nonlinear evolution of the parametric instabilities driven by fast lower hybrid waves in space. Singh’s most significant contribution is the modeling and simulation of the electrodymamics of the tethered satellite in NASA’s pioneering experiments on electrodynamic tethers in space. A tether orbiting in the ionosphere cuts across Earth’s magnetic field and can generate a large EMF. If the ends of the tether make a good contact with the plasma enabling it to draw a sufficiently large current from the ionosphere, it can be used in space for generator and motor action. In order to prove the feasibility of this concept, NASA flew two missions known as the tethered-satellite-system, TSS-1 and TSS-1R. In these missions the tethered satellite at the top end, biased at a large positive voltage, acted as a current collector. The problem of the electrodynamics of a high-voltage satellite in space is formidable for analytical theory, if not impossible. Because of Singh’s extensive experience in modeling and simulation of space plasma phenomena, he was invited to be a co-investigator on the science team for the TSS-1 project and was charged with the task of developing simulation models for the electrodynamics of the high-voltage sheath of satellites in low Earth orbit. He has performed a systematic study on several aspects of this problem, culminating in a first comprehensive state-of-the-art model. The model is fully three dimensional (3-D) and is based on the particle- in-cell (PIC) technique.

This model predicts many of the features of the plasma electrodynamics measured during the TSS-1R mission, including the properties of the electron and ion flows, current in the plasma contributing to the current collection, I-V characteristics, and the distribution of current collection on the satellite surface. In addition to the 3-D simulations, Singh was first to develop time-dependent models for the plasma discharge of intentionally released gases near a high-voltage satellite for the purpose of enhanced current collection. These investigations revealed for the first time a highly dynamic sheath with imbedded double layers in an expanding dense plasma. The development of the 3-D model for the tethered satellite is an outgrowth of Singh’s 34-year research experience with theory, modeling, and simulation of space plasmas, resulting in more than 130 publications in refereed journals and magazines. In view of the success of the 3-D model of the tethered satellite, Singh was invited by Dr. Moore of NASA/GSFC to model the Plasma Source Instrument (PSI) aboard the POLAR satellite. This instrument controls the positive potential on the satellite surface by ejecting an ion-rich Xe plasma. This model played a key role in a decision by NASA to continue the operation of the PSI. His work on ion detectors aboard a satellite having narrow acceptance angles has been the basis of the software package used at NASA/MSFC for analyzing data from the Dynamic Explorer 1 satellite. His work on a wide range of topics, such as antennas in space plasmas, double layers, large-scale plasma flow, and application of parallel computing to space plasma PIC codes, are all trend-setting in their respective fields.

2002 Co-op of the Year, Joey Chirst (Continued from page 4) “Joey's work effort exceeded the level of the normal co-op, and he took on engineering tasks that would be expected of a more experienced Co-op,” said Jeff Whitmire, manager of regulatory compliance at ADTRAN. “The one thing that was always present was Joey's willingness to take on any task, no matter how mundane, and see it to completion. He showed initiative to take some of these tasks beyond our expectations.” Joey and his new bride, Emily, live in Elkmont. In his spare time, Joey enjoys basketball, baseball and football. He is very involved with his church and has done numerous service projects within his community.

Co-op display at Engineering Open House, November 1, 2002.

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Helen Foster 10-Year Service Award Recipient

Pat Smith ECE Service Award Recipient

Helen Foster, Staff Assistant, received a UAH 10-year Service Award at the Spring 2002 awards luncheon. Helen joined the ECE staff in 1992. She produced the first brochure for the department. Her duties include budget and accounting; travel coordinating; electronic purchasing; maintaining pictorial directory of faculty, staff, and distinguished ECE alumni; being responsible for all departmental Xerox accounts; planning and coordinating functions for the department, and assisting the chairman in day-to-day duties. She received the Linda M. Hooper Outstanding ECE Service Award in 2000.

Pat Smith, Staff Assistant, received the Linda M. Hooper Outstanding ECE Service Award in April 2002. Pat has been on the UAH staff since 1984 and joined the ECE department in 1997 when Linda Hooper retired. Pat’s duties include scheduling classes for the ECE Department, ordering books for the department, maintaining and updating faculty files, distributing and preparing student evaluation forms for processing, maintaining undergraduate student files and helping to prepare paperwork for graduation. Pat also assists the chairman with appointments and various other duties.

Linda M. Hooper ECE Award Founder

Linda Grubbs ECE Service Award Recipient

Linda Mauldin Hooper retired from UAH and the ECE Department after 30 years of service, 28 of which were in ECE. Upon Linda’s retirement from the university in 1997, gifts and pledges were received from faculty, friends and colleagues to establish the Linda Mauldin Hooper ECE Outstanding Service Award endowment. For each period that the award is given, a committee reviews staff duties and recommendations made by the faculty. In 2000, the LMH award was given to staffers Helen Foster, Dennis Hite and posthumously to Illiana Chittur.

Linda Grubbs, Technical Secretary, received the Linda M. Hooper Outstanding ECE Service Award in April 2002. Linda joined the ECE staff in February 1993 after working as a temp in the Dean’s office for five months. Linda’s duties include working with electronic communications media, typing drafts and formatting camera-ready copy for technical journal articles, conference papers, and preparing draft and final copies of NSF and NASA proposals and submitting them on the web sites. Linda also produces the ECE Dept. brochure and newsletter, Real Time, and added the duties of ECE webmaster in June 2002.

Our Family is Growing: Welcome Faculty Babies….

Marko Milenkovic, born September 2002 Mary English, born July 2002

Thomas Bowman, born August 2002

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Laboratory News…

Dennis Hite, ECE Lab Manager

This type of dedication demonstrated by our graduate teaching assistants can only lead to better things for the department and brighter futures for the students taking our courses. Again, thanks and keep up the good work.

Those of you who did not attend classes over the summer, and have returned, probably noticed a few changes around the Engineering Building. Several of the ECE Labs including the Microcomputer Lab, IEEE Project Lab, Digital Signal Processing/Microcontroller Lab, Rapid Prototyping Lab, and Senior Design Lab have new Pentium 4 workstations. The College of Engineering General PC Lab (EB228) has 22 new Dell Pentium 4 workstations donated by COLSA. In addition, the Digital Signal Processing/Microcontroller and Senior Design Labs have been outfitted with Agilent 100MHz MSO oscilloscopes, Agilent power supplies, and GDM Digital Multimeters. Several new Virtex-II Microblaze boards have been purchased for use in the Real-Time Systems Lab and 10 new Xilinx FPGA boards were added to the Senior Design Lab. This is all part of a department-wide equipment upgrade that is expected to cost over $300,000 during the next two years. Please take care of our new equipment and enjoy. I hope everyone will benefit from the upgrades. I would like to take a moment to say many thanks to our Graduate Teaching Assistants. Thanks for doing your jobs with minimal supervision. Thanks for returning graded materials on time. Thanks for showing up for your labs on time. Thanks for helping by keeping the labs clean, organized, and promptly reporting problems to me. Thanks for being there when the department calls on you to perform duties outside your assigned duties. But most of all, thanks for having the courage to teach your students and letting them know you expect them to learn something in your class. I know that it is harder for you to teach than to simply disseminate information. It takes planning, organization, and practice to be an effective instructor, and I commend you all for your efforts. Claudio Estevez, currently instructor for EE301 and EE305 labs, is an excellent example of the GTAs found teaching the ECE undergraduate laboratories. He reinforces his students learning experience with hands-on demonstrations. He describes one such demonstration here.

Claudio Estevez, GTA “Teaching students about filters and their properties is no easy task, I was in their shoes just two years ago and I know what they are going through. I know now that if I can show them a filter in action, they can get a better “feeling” of how filters work. In this demonstration, that I did for my students, I connected my laptop to the trainer they use everyday. I built a first-order passive low-pass filter followed by an amplifying circuit (volume control). I connected the input signal and the filtered signal to the oscilloscope. The input signal was music, the output signal was the low frequencies of the music (bass). The students did not only see the output but they heard it also. This helps them understand a little bit better how filters work, and they get a better understanding what a graph represents in the frequency domain.”

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Users of Engineering computer systems should know about the support web site at the address below. Among the resources available are: an online help request

the online account request

online documentation for several software packages

the Frequently Asked Questions page ("the FAQ")

lab hours

support news

http://support.eng.uah.edu

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Spring 2003 Electrical & Computer Engineering Course List Course

Credit Hrs.

Short Title Course

Credit Hrs.

Short Title

Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering EE100 3 Concepts in Digital Signals and Sys EE510 3 Selected Topics/ECE EE100L 0 Laboratory for EE100 EE516 3 Digital Electronics EE201 1 Digital Logic Design Lab EE521 3 Microcomputers (EE521L = Lab) EE202 3 Intro to Digital Logic Design EE522 3 Advanced Logic Design (EE522L = Lab) EE300 3 Electrical Circuit Analysis I EE527 3 Electromagnetic Waves EE301 1 Electronic Measurement Lab EE528 3 Analy & Comp Methods Elec Engr I EE305 1 Electronic Devices and Design Lab I EE532 3 Optical Systems Design EE307 3 Electricity and Magnetism EE534 3 Optical Fiber Communications EE310 3 Solid State Fundamentals EE548 3 Intro to Computer Networks EE313 3 Electrical Circuit Analysis II EE570 3 Optic & Photonic Systems Design EE315 3 Intro Electronic Analysis & Design EE603 3 Random Signals in Communication EE321 3 Computer Organization EE605 3 Classical Control Design EE382 3 Analytical Methods for Continuous-Time Systems EE609 3 Electromagnetic Field Theory EE383 3 Analyt Meth for Multivariable & Discrete-Time Sys EE610 3 ST: Adv. Techniques in Microelectronics EE384 1 Digital Signal Processing Laboratory EE612 3 Graduate Design Project EE410 3 Selected Topics: ECE EE615 3 Analog Circuit Design EE411 3 Electric Power System EE620 3 CMOS Analog Circuit Design EE412 3 Sr. Design Project: IEEE Car Project EE628 3 Anal & Comp Methods Elec Engr II EE416 3 Electronics II EE632 3 Fourier Optics EE420 3 Random Signals & Noise EE642 3 Data & Digital Communication EE421 3 Microcomputers (EE421L = Lab) EE654 3 Optical Testing EE422 3 Advanced Logic Design (EE422L = Lab) EE670 3 Opto-mechanical Design & Manuf EE425 3 Intro to Control and Robotic Systems EE691 1 Graduate Seminar I EE426 3 Communication Theory EE692 3 Graduate Seminar II EE428 3 VLSI Design II (with EE428L = Lab) EE697 3 Master’s Project for Plan II EE436 3 Digital Electronics EE699 3 Master’s Thesis EE447 3 Electromagnetic Waves EE703 3 Modern Control Design EE448 3 Analytical and Computational Methods Elec Engr I EE707 3 Information Theory EE451 3 Optoelectronics EE710 3 ST: Sliding Mode Control EE453 3 Laser Systems EE725 3 Advanced Radar Technique EE454 3 Optical Fiber Communications EE745 3 Mod/Phase Lock Tech Comm EE468 3 Intro to Computer Networks I EE748 3 Digital Sig Proc Alg/App EE494 3 EE Design Projects EE799 3 Doctoral Dissertation EE500 3 Random Signals & Noise EE505 3 Intro to Control and Robotic Systems EE506 3 Communication Theory Computer Engineering CPE112 3 Intro Comp Prog for Engrs (CPE112L = Lab) Optical Engineering CPE212 3 Fundamentals of Software Engr CPE321 3 Computer Organization OPE534 3 Optical Fiber Communications CPE336 3 Operating Systems OPE542 3 Physical Optics CPE337 3 Operating Systems Laboratory OPE453 3 Laser Systems CPE421 3 Microcomputers (CPE421L = Lab) OPE546 3 Radiometry, Detectors & Sources CPE422 3 Advanced Logic Design (CPE422L = Lab) OPE555 3 Quan Theory & Opt Prop of Solids CPE426 3 VLSI Hardware Desc Lang/Mod/Syn OPE570 3 Opt & Photonic Systems Design CPE428 3 VLSI Design II (CPE428L = Lab) OPE632 3 Fourier Optics CPE448 3 Intro to Computer Networks OPE653 3 Optical Testing Lab CPE451 3 Software Design & Engineering OPE654 3 Optical Testing CPE490 3 ST: Hardware/Software Computer Design OPE670 3 Optics Design & Manufacturing CPE496 3 Computer Engineering Design II OPE755 3 Adv Optoelectronic Devices CPE521 3 Microcomputers (CPE521L = Lab) OPE799 3 Doctoral Dissertation CPE522 3 Advanced Logic Design (CPE522L = Lab) CPE526 3 VLSI Hardware Desc Lang/Mod/Syn CPE528 3 VLSI Design II (CPE528L = Lab) CPE548 3 Intro to Computer Networks CPE590 3 ST: Hardware/Software Computer Design Please see an academic advisor before CPE612 3 Parallel Algorithms you register for ECE classes. CPE625 3 CMOS Analog Circuit Design CPE631 3 Adv Comp Systems Architecture CPE690 3 ST: Wireless Networks Check the web for updates: CPE699 3 Master’s Thesis http://www.ece.uah.edu/ CPE730 3 Selected Topics in Computer Systems CPE799 3 Doctoral Dissertation For information call: (256) 824-6316 Or inquire via email: eceinfo@ece.uah.edu

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Master of Science in Software Engineering

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville offers a new program, Master of Science in Software Engineering (MSSE), as a new degree program through the College of Engineering beginning January 2002. MSSE, computer science track, is offered through the Computer Science Department in the College of Science. The Master of Science in Software Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department unconditional admission requirements are:

A Bachelor’s degree from ABET or CSAB approved programs with a minimum of 3.0 out of 4.0 scale, GRE Score of 1700, and TOEFL score of 600 (for international students).

Conditional admission may be granted to individuals who fail to meet one or more of the requirements for unconditional admission.

Prerequisites: Coursework or demonstration of knowledge in:

Programming in C, C++ or Java (CPE 112) Data Structures (CPE 212) Discrete Structures (CS 214) Algorithm Design and Analysis (CS 317) Operating Systems (CPE 336)

Computer Architecture (CPE 431)

Experience in the development of a large scale, industrial strength software is highly desirable. Program Structure Program would be a 33 hour program Program would include a significant controlled software development experience Full Time students should allow two years to complete the program. Planned Coursework for the Degree I. Software Engineering Core

(4 courses; 12 credits total) CS 650 – The Software Engineering Process Plus one of following three course sequences: CS 652 – System and Software Requirements Methods CS 658 – Software Project Management and Quality Assurance CS 654 – Software Design Techniques and Tools CS 551 – Object Oriented Software Development

CS 552 – Object Oriented Design CS 658 – Software Project Management and Quality Assurance II. ECE Department Capstone Courses (3 courses, 3 credits total) CM 601 – Communication for Engineers, one credit hour. EE 691 – Graduate Seminar I, one credit hour. EE 692 – Graduate Seminar II, one credit hour. III. CPE or CS Software Design Studio (2 courses, 6 credits total) Since the purpose of the design studio is to provide the student with opportunities to work on large-scale software design projects with real world implications, at least one member of the student's committee should be chosen from outside the department with industrial expertise in the design and/or management of large-scale software systems. The external committee member may also be chosen to provide domain expertise in an engineering discipline if such an experience is critical to a design studio project. CPE 656 /CS 666 Software Studio I CPE 658 /CS 668 Software Studio II IV. CPE Core Courses (4 courses, 12 credits total and may not take more than two at 500 level) Four courses taken from the following list or approved by the supervisory committee: CPE 538 – Real Time & Embedded Systems CPE 536 – Computer Systems Software.

CPE 512 – Intro Parallel Programming CPE 548 – Introduction to Computer Networks CPE 551 – Software Design and Engineering CPE 561 – Translation Systems CPE 628 – Testing Hardware Systems CPE 631 – Adv Computer Systems Architecture CPE 633 – Fault Tolerant Systems Architecture CPE 648 – Advanced Computer Networks CPE 661 – Code Optimizations CPE 731 – Distributed Shared Memory Systems. CPE 726 – Tools for VLSI Design CPE 735 – Selected Topics in Operating Systems CPE 760 – Selected Topics in Compilers and Translation Systems

For More Information: Contact ECE Department Dr. Ned. Audeh, ECE Graduate Director 256-824-6316 or audeh@ece.uah.edu

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Publications, Presentations and Awards ELECTROMAGNETICS

Nagendra Singh, Professor Journal Article Singh, N., “Spontaneous formation of current driven double layers in density depletions and its relevance to solitary Alfven waves,” Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 2002 Conference Papers Nagendra Singh, George Khazanov, E. N. Krivorutsky, “Mechanisms for the Dissipation of Alfven Waves in Near-Earth Space Plasma,” 2002 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand, July 9-12, 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Development of Simulation Model for Mini-Magnetospheric Plasma Propulsion (M2P2),” NASA/MSFC STD Branch, Propulsion Workshop, invited talk given by S. Saha, Sept. 17, 2002. Nagendra Singh, “Nucleation and Formation of Double Layers Via Interaction of Density Cavities with Parallel Fields and Currents,” 2002 Huntsville Workshop on Astrophysical Particle Acceleration from Geospace and Beyond, Chattanooga, TN, October 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Magnetic Reconnection Initiated By Electrostatic Instabilities,” 2002 Huntsville Workshop on Astrophysical Particle Acceleration from Geospace and Beyond, Chattanooga, TN, October 7-9, 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Hybrid PIC Modeling of M2P2,” 2002 Huntsville Workshop on Astrophysical Particle Acceleration from Geospace and Beyond, Chattanooga, TN, October 7-9, 2002. Saikat Saha and Nagendra Singh, “Current Disruption and Reconnection in a Harris Current Sheet,” American Geophysical Union 2002 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2002. Nagendra Singh, “Refraction Shock and Its Consequences for the Auroral Acceleration Processes,” American Geophysical Union 2002 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2002. Contracts “Mesoscale Kinetic Simulations of the Potential Structure in the Auroral Return Current Plasma,” (Principal Investigator) NSF, until June 2005. “Space Plasma - Solar Wind,” (Principal Investigator) NASA, MSFC, until August 2005. “Space Plasma - Alfven Waves,” (Principal Investigator) NASA, MSFC, until August 2005.

ELECTRON DEVICES Fat Duen Ho, Professor Journal Article Mark Bailey and Fat Duen Ho, “Metal-Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor Modeling Using a Partitioned Ferroelectric Layer,” accepted for publication, Integrated Ferroelectrics, 2002.

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Aleksandar Milenkovic, Assistant Professor Conference Papers K. Lesueur, E. Jovanov, A. Milenkovic, "Lookup Table-Based Real-Time Non-Uniformity Correction of Infrared Scene Projectors," Proceedings of 12th Annual DoD High Performance Computing Modernization User Group Conference, Austin, Texas, June 2002. M. Milenkovic, A. Milenkovic, J. Kulick, "Demystifying Intel Branch Predictors," Proceedings of the Workshop on Duplicating, Deconstructing, and Debunking (held in conjunction with 29th ISCA), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2002. A. Milenkovic, B. Nikolic, J. Djordjevic, "CASTLE: Computer Architecture Self-Testing and Learning System" Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer Architecture Education (held in conjunction with 29th ISCA), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2002. B. Earl Wells, Associate Professor Conference Paper R.B. Frederick, Jr., M. Pawlek, D.M. Utley, C.D. Corsetti, B.E. Wells and D.B. Landrum, "International Product Teams for Aerospace Systems Design," 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Indianapolis, IN, July 7 - 10, 2002. S. M. Yoo, Associate Professor Conference Papers K. Kanamori, E. Jovanov, and S.M. Yoo, "Performance Comparison between TEA and Rijndael Encryption Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks," ISCA 15th Int'l Conf. on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2002), San Diego, November 2002. C. Deverapalli, S.M. Yoo, and R. Ramasamy, "A Comparison Study of a Mobile and Stationary Wireless Ad hoc Network," The Huntsville Simulation Conference, October 2002. R. Ramasamy, C. Deverapalli, and S.M. Yoo, "Simulation Study of a Wireless Sensor Network," The Huntsville Simulation Conference, October 2002. M. M. Thaduri, S. M. Yoo, and H. Y. Youn, "An Efficient VLSI Implementation of IDEA Encryption Algorithm Using VHDL," International Conference on Security and Management 2002 (SAM'02), Las Vegas, pp. 262-268, June 2002. C. Deverapalli, L. Joiner, S. M. Yoo, and H. Choo, "Performance Comparison of Various Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," International Conference on Wireless Networks 2002 (ICWN'02), Las Vegas, pp. 129-135, June 2002.

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Publications, Presentations and Awards

OPTICS David Pollock, Assoc. Research Professor Conference Paper Pollock, D. B., N. P. Fox, R. V. Datla, T. L. Murdock, “The Next Step is in Progress - ‘TRUTHS’ Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio- Studies,” 2002 Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Utah State University, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, UT, September 19-21, 2002. Organization Committee Workshop on Satellite Instrument Calibration for Measuring Global Climate Change, University of Maryland Conference Center, November 12-14, 2002. SIGNAL PROCESSING / COMMUNICATIONS

Charles Corsetti, Assistant Chair

Conference Paper R.B. Frederick, Jr., M. Pawlek, D.M. Utley, C.D. Corsetti, B.E. Wells and D.B. Landrum, "International Product Teams for Aerospace Systems Design," 38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Indianapolis, IN, July 7 - 10, 2002.

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Laurie Joiner, Assistant Professor

Conference Paper C. Deverapalli, L. Joiner, S. M. Yoo, and H. Choo, "Performance Comparison of Various Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," International Conference on Wireless Networks 2002 (ICWN'02), Las Vegas, pp. 129-135, June 2002. _________________________________________________

News for Eta Kappa Nu Dr. Gaede, the faculty advisor for Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical and Computer Engineering honor society, has membership certificates for the following individuals in her office. Allison Leigh Arp, Susan C. Beddingfield, Julie Li-Lin Chen, Howard Chin, William Benjamin Gilmore, Suzanne B. Haraway, Po Cheng Heng, Steven Sean Hodges, Ardith Huey, Donald Hutto, Elizabeth Hvizda, Sheila Jo Lane, Susan Machnica, Regina Moore, Patrick Hill Oduor, Dhaval K. Oza, Bobby Joe Patterson, Jennifer L. Pearson, Kimberly D. Pratt, Joan Barnett Presson, Jeremy Richard, Marcia J. Richmond, Bradley Scott Tommy H. Shelton, David Patrick Smith, Sheree E. Smith, Cory Teague, Emi S. Toh, Steven W. Vest, Joel Glen Vinson, Patrick B. Waye, Jr., John Chris Wesley, James Douglas Wilson Please contact Dr. Gaede if you can help her get the certificates to these deserving students. She can be reached by phone (256) 824-6573 or email gaede@ece.uah.edu

SIGNAL PROCESSING / COMMUNICATIONS

Emil Jovanov, Associate Professor Journal Article E. Jovanov, V. Milutinovic, A. Hurson, ”Acceleration of Nonnumeric Operations Using Hardware Support for the Ordered Table Hashing Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 51, No. 9, September 2002, pp. 1026-1040. Conference Papers E. Jovanov, A. O’Donnel, A. Morgan, B. Priddy, R. Hormigo, “Prolonged Telemetric Monitoring Of Heart Rate Variability Using Wireless Intelligent Sensors And A Mobile Gateway,” 2nd Joint EMBS-BMES, Houston, Texas, October 2002. Zeljko Obrenovic, Dusan Starcevic, Emil Jovanov, “Toward Optimization of Multimodal User Interfaces for Tactical Audio Applications,” 7th ERCIM Workshop User Interface for All, Paris, France, October 2002. Y. Kanamori, E. Jovanov, S.M. Yoo, “Performance Comparison between TEA and Rijndael Encryption Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks,” ISCA 15th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE-2002), San Diego, November 2002. D. Starcevic, Z. Obrenovic, E. Jovanov, V. Radivojevic, “Implementation of Virtual Medical Devices in Internet and Wireless Cellular Networks,” 1st IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications and Societal Impact, Wroclaw, Poland, October 2002. L. Collier, E. Jovanov, “A Prototype Emotion-Sensing Human-Computer Interface Device for PDA’s,” 11th World Congress of Psychophysiology, Montreal, Canada, July 2002. K.G. LeSueur, E. Jovanov, A. Milenkovic, “Lookup Table Based Real-Time Non-Uniformity Correction Of Infrared Scene Projectors,” High Performance Computing User's Group Conference, Austin, Texas, June 2002. D. Starcevic, Z. Obrenovic, E. Jovanov, V. Radivojevic, “Virtual Medical Devices in Internet and Wireless Cellular Networks,” 6th Balkan Conference on Operational Research, Thesaloniki, Greece, May 2002. Contract “Custom Processing of Heart Rate Variability” for “The War Fighter Stress Response: Telemetric and Noninvasive Assessment” project (Principal Investigator), September 2002. Invited Talk “Wireless Networks of Intelligent Sensors WISE”, IEEE Computer Society, Huntsville Chapter Meeting, October 2002.

SOLID STATE Timothy Boykin, Associate Professor Journal Article Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, R. Chris Bowen, and Fabiano Oyafuso, "Diagonal parameter shifts due to nearest-neighbor displacements in empirical tight-binding theory," Physical Review B, vol. 66, 125207 (2002).

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Distinguished ECE Alumni

The ECE Department’s Distinguished Engineer Alumni Wall honors those ECE graduates who have been selected each year to receive the UAH College of Engineering Distinguished Engineer Alumni Award for outstanding contributions in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Beginning in 2000, the award is given each spring to three distinguished alumni from each Department in the College of Engineering during the evening ceremony for the Order of the Engineer.

Masters of Science in Software Engineering Our new Master of Science in Software Engineering received a big boost from the Software Engineering Directorate (SED) at AMCOM. In Fall 2002, the ECE Department began offering software engineering courses to a group of students who are employed at SED. The courses are delivered through the College of Engineering Distance Learning facility to the SED Building at AMCOM. The program is expected to last two years.

Welcome to the ECE Family Wesley and Heather Walker welcomed Hannah F. Walker into the world on July 12, 2002. Wesley is an ECE Ph.D. student

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