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. During the last few years the EE Department has added faculty who bring new expertise and unbounded enthusiasm to the department.
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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Recent News and Announcements
Prof. Nirmal Bose, HRB-Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering, delivered the Plenary Invited Distinguished Lecture entitled "Wavelength Diversity Superresolution for Condition Based Maintenance," at the The Fifth International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Machinery Failure Prevention Technologies (CM 2008 and MFPT 2008) July 15-18, 2008 at the Edinburgh Conference Centre in Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He was also selected to be in the International Scientific Advisory Committee of CM 2008 and MFPT 2008.
Prof. Aylin Yener, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, co-organized the first annual IEEE Information Theory Society's School of Information Theory at the University Park Penn State campus, June 1-5, 2008. The aim of the School of Information Theory was to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and senior researchers working on Information Theory in an interactive campus environment.
Prof. I.C. Khoo, W. E. Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering, was appointed Chair of the United States Advisory Committee/Int. Commission for Optics (USAC-ICO)– one of the National Committees of The National Academies for a three-year term starting January 2008. He was also reappointed the IEEE-LEOS Vice-President Representative to the International commission for Optics for the same 3 year term. Prof. Khoo will be leading the US delegation to the ICO Bureau meeting in Sydney, Australia in July 6-11, 2008.
Prof. I. C. Khoo recently presented an invited plenary presentation entitled “Liquid Crystal Nonlinear Optical Meta-materials” at the Italian Liquid Crystal Society Meeting held at Acitrezza, Sicily, Italy on June 4-7, 2008. Some of the interesting physics and applications of liquid crystal optics and nonlinear optics may be found in the book Liquid Crystals, 2nd Edition (Wiley, NJ 2007) authored by Prof. Khoo.
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