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
Workshops and Short Courses
The Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR) will be hosting a workshop entitled Greater than 10 Gbps Copper Ethernet on the Penn State University Park campus from August 10-12, 2009. For more information, please visit the workshop website.
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Department News Items
EE graduate student Mr. Sebastien de Larquier was awarded the first prize in the student poster competition at the 2009 Coupling Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Conference held from June 28 to July 2, 2009 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mr. de Larquier's work is funded by NSF CEDAR program and is devoted to development of efficient finite-difference time-domain models of infrasound propagation in a realistic atmosphere. Sebastien is working on his M.S. degree in Prof. Victor Pasko's research group.
Prof. Aylin Yener (with Prof. Gerhard Kramer of USC) is the general chair for the Second Annual North American School of Information Theory, which will be held Monday, August 10, to Thursday, August 13, 2009, at Northwestern University. The school will build on the success of last year’s inaugural school, also
chaired by Profs. Yener and Kramer and held at Penn State University, University Park Campus, to provide graduate students and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to learn from leading experts in information theory through short courses and talks as well as the chance to present their own work.
An embedded microcontroller design project by EE Seniors Adam Neal, Patrick Hensel and John Mihalic was recently selected as one of three finalists in the Freescale FTF Design Challenge, a national competition in which students and researchers designed green-engineering applications for the Freescale microcontroller. The winning project will be determined at a showcase in Orlando, FL in July. This project was completed in the EE 403W Senior Design Course under the direction of Chris Rogan, an Engineer at Penn State's Applied Research Lab.
More News and Announcements
Monthly Newsletters
April 2009
May 2009
June 2009
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