Greetings from the Department Head
I am pleased to send our greetings from the faculty, staff, and students of the Electrical Engineering Department at Penn State.
The Penn State Electrical Engineering Department is among the largest, oldest, and the most innovative in the nation. The EE Department, first established in 1893, is over 100 years old. The PSU Electrical Engineering Department offers B.S., M.S., and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering. Approximately 400 students are enrolled in the undergraduate program, and approximately 250 students are enrolled in the graduate program, with about half pursuing doctoral degrees. We have over 50 Professional Faculty. We offer approximately 90 courses from freshman to graduate level, encompassing all areas of electrical engineering. We also have a vibrant research program, at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
W. Kenneth Jenkins
Professor and Head of Electrical Engineering
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Department News Items
Prof. Aylin Yener is part of a new interdisciplinary research center at Penn State. The Communication Networks Research Center, focusing on the science of communication networks, was awarded approximately $35.5 million over 10 years from the Army Research Laboratory. The center, part of the new Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, will perform foundational research on network science. The research focuses on the interplay among the social/cognitive, information, and communication networks. The center is led by Penn State, with partners including the University of California at Davis, the University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Southern California and the City University of New York. Several institutions also will be collaborating with the center including the University of California at Riverside, North Carolina State University, Stanford University and BBN Technologies.
Keegan McCoy, an Electrical Engineering senior, received the Anita M. Todd Internship Student of the Year Award for the 2008-2009 Academic year. McCoy worked during the summer 2009 semester as a systems engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., where he developed an optical test plan at the Integrated Science Instrument Module level for the James Webb Space Telescope's fine guidance sensor and tunable filter.
At the recent IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, held in Grenoble, France, the paper "Semisupervised Mixture Modeling with Fine-Grained Component-Conditional Class Labeling and Transductive Inference", presented by Prof. David Miller and authored by Prof. David Miller, Chu-Fang Lin (EE Ph.D. student), Prof. George Kesidis, and Prof. Christopher Collins (Penn State-Hershey Radiology), was selected for Best Paper award.
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