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Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
Program in Electrical Engineering
Faculty Mentors
Sven Bilén
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
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
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
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
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Digital filtering, signal processing algorithms, multidimensional array processing, computer imaging, one- and two-dimensional adaptive signal processing, and VLSI architectures for signal processing
Iam-Choon Khoo
William E. Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering
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
Assistant Professor, Engineering Design
Engineering design methodology, product design, innovation and entrepreneurship, engineering education assessment
Zhiwen Liu
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
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
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Radar remote sensing, digital signal processing, ionospheric physical and chemical processes, radar codes.
Jack Mitchell
Professor of Electrical Engineering
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
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University
Victor Pasko
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Atmospheric electrodynamics, gas discharge phenomena, computational plasma physics and electromagnetics
Joan Redwing
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
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
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Control systems, feedback control of quantum-mechanical processes, application to nuclear quadrupole spectroscopy and magnetic resonance imaging.
Srinivas Tadigadapa
Professor of Electrical Engineering
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
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
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.