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Electrical Engineering

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Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
Program in Electrical Engineering

Faculty Mentors

Sven Bilen

Sven Bilén

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

sbilen@psu.edu



Electrodynamic-tether science, technology, and applications; in situ measurements of space plasmas and environments; circuit modeling of plasmas and spacecraft–plasma interactions; and plasma diagnostics for space plasmas, plasma electric thrusters, and semiconductor plasma processing

Chris Giebink

Chris Giebink

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

ncg2@psu.edu



Organic optoelectronic and photonic devices, light emitting diodes, lasers, and photovoltaics; solar concentration, fundamental investigation of charge carriers and excited states in organic semiconductors

Ken Jenkins

Ken Jenkins

Professor of Electrical Engineering

jenkins@engr.psu.edu



Digital filtering, signal processing algorithms, multidimensional array processing, computer imaging, one- and two-dimensional adaptive signal processing, and VLSI architectures for signal processing

I.C. Khoo

Iam-Choon Khoo

William E. Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering

ick1@psu.edu



Nonlinear optical fibers and fiber arrays for optical switching and sensor protection application, and electro-optical and nonlinear optical phenomena and devices based on liquid crystalline materials

Liz Kisenwether

Liz Kisenwether

Assistant Professor, Engineering Design

exk13@psu.edu



Engineering design methodology, product design, innovation and entrepreneurship, engineering education assessment

Zhiwen Liu

Zhiwen Liu

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

zliu@psu.edu



Optical phenomena happening in short time femtosecond and/or short spatial (nanometer) scales and their applications in information technology (communication, memory, sensors), femtosecond pulse propagation in photonic crystal fiber, femtosecond camera, coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) imaging sensor, data storage in nanostructures, and applications of holography.

John Mathews

John Mathews

Professor of Electrical Engineering

jdmathews@psu.edu



Radar remote sensing, digital signal processing, ionospheric physical and chemical processes, radar codes.

Jack Mitchell

Jack Mitchell

Professor of Electrical Engineering

jdm4@psu.edu



Electrical properties/processes of the middle atmosphere. Rocket probe techniques have been utilized to investigate NLC/PMSE events in the high-latitude middle atmosphere, solar eclipses, thunderstorms, and aurora, and also the mid-latitude and equatorial regions during quiescent conditions

Robert Nickel

Robert Nickel

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University

rmn009@bucknell.edu



Speech signal processing, time frequency analysis, general signal theory

Victor Pasko

Victor Pasko

Professor of Electrical Engineering

vpasko@psu.edu



Atmospheric electrodynamics, gas discharge phenomena, computational plasma physics and electromagnetics

Joan Redwing

Joan Redwing

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

jmr31@psu.edu



Vapor phase synthesis and characterization of electronic and photonic materials; metalorganic chemical vapor deposition of group III-nitride materials (GaN, AlN, InN); vapor-liquid-solid growth of semiconductor nanowires; wide bandgap semiconductor characterization; heterostructure fabrication and characterization.

Jeffrey Schiano

Jeffrey Schiano

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

jls32@psu.edu



Control systems, feedback control of quantum-mechanical processes, application to nuclear quadrupole spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging.

Srinivas  Tadigadapa

Srinivas Tadigadapa

Professor of Electrical Engineering

sat10@psu.edu



Interdisciplinary field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and novel micro-fabrication techniques, specifically, the fabrication of novel micro- and nano-sensors and actuators by integrating non-traditional materials using silicon planar micro-fabrication techniques.

Julio Urbina

Julio Urbina

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

jvu1@psu.edu



Digital systems and space communication and instrumentation, software defined radio, sensors, acquisiton and morphware systems, meteor science, radio wave remote sensing, radar instrumentation, and radar studies of the atmosphere and ionosphere.