DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING Dr. Benjamin C. Flores Professor and Division Director, Computing & Electrical Engineering Dr.

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DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER
ENGINEERING

Dr. Benjamin C. Flores
Professor and
Division Director,
Computing & Electrical
Engineering
Dr. Patricia A. Nava
Assoc. Professor and Head


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STUDENT FACTS
377 undergraduate students
• 66 female
• 311 male
• 248 Hispanic
120 MS students
27 Ph.D. students


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ECE Faculty
7 Professors
• Flores, Liu, Pierluissi, Riter,
Schroder, Starks, Williams
7 Associate Professors
• Cabrera, Lush, Nava,
Nazeran, Moussavi, SarkodieGyan, Usevitch
6 Assistant Professors
• Gonzalez, MacDonald, Moya,
Quinones, Rosiles, von
Borries, Yao, Zubia
4 Lecturers
• Myers, Rodriguez, Rubio, Woo


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ECE Programs
BS Electrical Engineering (128 credits)
Concentrations:
• Computer Engineering
• Fields and Devices
• Systems and Communications

MS Computer Engineering (30 credits)
MS Electrical Engineering (30 credits)
Ph.D. Computer Engineering (60 credits)


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BSEE Program

*ABET Accredited
* 60 Non-major credits (including core)
• University Studies
• Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)
• English Comp. and Prof. Communications
• Math (Calculus, Diff. Eq., Matrix Algebra)
• History and Political Science
• Art, Economics, Humanities
* 68 EE credits


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EE Lower Division
Freshman
• Intro to EE
• Measurements Lab
Sophomore
• Digital System Design I
• Software Design I
• Basic EE Lab
• Networks


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EE Upper Division
• Junior Year
— Electronic Networks
— Electronic Devices
— Linear Integrated Circuits
— Signals and Systems
— Probability
— Microprocessor Instrumentation
— Electromagnetic Theory
— Electronics Lab


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EE Upper Division
•Senior Year
— 12 concentration credits in:
• Computer Engineering
• Fields and Devices
• Systems and Communications
• General (a sampling of all the
concentrations above)
— Senior Professional
Orientation
— Senior Project I and II


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Senior Project I and II: Capstone Design Course
http://www.ece.utep.edu/research/websp/
• Team based (4 members)
• Proposal
— Faculty reviewed
• Hardware and software
requirements
• Reports
— Monthly
• End of semester
— Written report
— PowerPoint presentation


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Student Organizations
• Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) – EE Honor Society
• Tau Beta Pi (TBΠ)– Engineering Honor Society
• Society of Hispanic Professional
Engineers (SHPE)
• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
• Mexican-American Engineering Society (MAES)


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Research


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Pan American Center for
Earth and Environmental Studies

Faculty: Dr. Scott Starks (ECE), Dr. Randy Keller (GS),
Dr. Ann Gates (CS), Dr. Vladik Kreinovich (CS)
Remote Sensing, Global Information Systems, Geoscience Applications
Computational facilities consist of three separate computer training
laboratories with a total of approximately 40 desktop PC's, 8 workstation
class PC's, 6 SGI IRIX workstations, and 2 HP UNIX workstations.


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UTEP Distributed Computing Lab

Faculty: Dr. Nava (ECE), Dr. Williams (ECE),
Dr. Pierluissi (ECE)
Creates a pipeline of students from high school through
graduate school that are trained in the design, operation
and applications of high-performance computers.
DCL serves as a hub for educational, research and outreach activities.
NSF

NSF
NSF


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VLSI/Chip Design
IBM’s PPC405LP
Ultra-low power chip.
Size - 7mm x 7mm
6 million transistor
shown.

Faculty: Dr. Eric MacDonald (ECE),
Dr. John Moya (ECE),
Ultra Low Power VLSI (chip)
Design,
VLSI test, Reconfigurable
Electronics,
Integrated Circuits for Extreme Environment

IBM’s copper interconnect
Small lines are ~100 times
thinner than human hair.


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NanoMaterials Integration Laboratory

Faculty: Dr. David Zubia (ECE), Dr. Stella Quinones (ECE),
Dr. Greg Lush, Ph.D. (ECE), Dr. John McClure (MME),
Dr. William Durrer (Physics)
Fabrication, characterization and simulation of semiconductor
thin films for advanced photovoltaic and infrared detector
applications.


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Biomedical Engineering

Faculty: Dr. Homer Nazeran (ECE), Dr. Zahra Moussavi (ECE),
Dr. Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan (ECE)
Areas of Research:

Development of Intelligent Biomedical Instrumentation Systems
and Assistive Technologies; Modeling of Physiological Systems; Biomedical Signal
Processing; Neuro-rehabilitation Engineering; Telemedicine.

Current Work:

Development of intelligent phonocardiographs; Investigations into
human motor learning under uncertainty; Impulse oscillometric evaluation of lung
function in asthmatic children; Respiratory system modeling and lung sound analysis;
Heart rate variability and sleep disordered breathing; Automatic sleep staging;
Development of telemonitoring systems for asthma triggers, etc.


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More Information
A 301 Dr. Benjamin C. Flores
A 315 Dr. Patricia A. Nava

Socorro Quezada
Administrative Assistant
On the web:

www.utep.edu/academics/ee