Search		NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Dr. Yong-June Shin receives NSF Career award Electrical Engineering Senior Project Competition 2007 winners announced Three Tenure-Track EE Faculty Positions open beginning in Fall 2007 or Spring 2008 EE Department seeks to hire one or more full-time non-tenure track Instructors Gregory Endowed Professorship awarded to Dr. Roger Dougal Dr. Yong-June Shin gives Outreach speech to IEEE in Augusta Dr. Tangali Sudarshan Appointed New EE Chair Electrical Engineering Department Dinner, Spring 2006 USC team places 4th overall in International Solar Boat contest Middle School Students Build Robots Special graduate course on Energy Conversion offered in Summer II Two EE Professors Win Research Awards for 2005 - 2006 EE Undergrad wins Poster Award at Sigma Xi Research Conference EE Professor awarded the Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year Award Team Metal Gear wins Spring 2006 ELCT402 Design Competition Two Tenure-Track EE Faculty Positions open beginning in Fall 2006 (Removed) Dream Jobs 2006 Special Report Dr. M. Asif Khan named an IEEE Fellow USC hosts Virtual TestBed Users and Developers Conference Sept 20-21 USC Future Energy Challenge winners saluted EE Undergraduate Student Team Wins Award at the 2005 Future Energy Challenge Competition USC host site for FIRST Robotics event IDV licenses EE-developed S3D software - More information on agreement FIRST Robotics Palmetto Regional Competition Electrical Engineering Scholarship Awards for 2004-2005     CURRENT EVENTS 03 Apr 2008: Seminar Dr. Yong-Xin Guo: System in Package Technology for Advanced RF and Microwave System Integration & Miniaturization RECENT EVENTS 11 Mar 2008: Dissertation Defense Dr. Guanglei Wang: Real Time Simulation on Multiple Digital Signal Processor Platform 25 Feb 2008: Seminar Dr. Xinmai Yang: Photoacoustic tomography and its applications to animal brain imaging 03 Dec 2007: Seminar Dr. Balaji Panchapakesan: Understanding The Interaction Of Light On Carbon Nanotubes: From Micro-Opto-Mechanical Systems To Cancer Nanotechnology 30 Nov 2007: Seminar Dr. Feng Zhao: D4H-SiC Bipolar Junction Transistors for RF and Power Applications 27 Nov 2007: Seminar Christian A. Zorman: Development of New Materials and Processes for Mechanically-flexible, Microfabricated Neural Interfaces 29 Nov 2007: Dissertation Defense Abu Taher Mohammad Sayem: Designing Electrically Small Antennas and the Effect of their Radiation on Humans 20 Nov 2007: Thesis Defense Jason Ramage: Proof of Snell's Law At Lower Frequencies 19 Nov 2007: Thesis Defense Peyton Cavaroc: A Microcontroller-Based Modular Approach To Battery Balancing Using A Flying Capacitor 16 Nov 2007: Seminar W. Alan Doolittle: Advanced Device Concepts Facilitated by Novel Epitaxy Technology with Emphasis on InGaN Photovoltaics and Multifunctional Materials and Devices 05 Oct 2007: Thesis Defense Rizwan Muzaffar: Sub-System Component Level Design Of An Active Device For A Wimax Receiver 18 Sep 2007: Dissertation Defense Olufemi Oluwafemi: Surface Roughness And Its Impact On System Power Losses 13 Sep 2007: Dissertation Defense Khan Mohammed Ziaus Shams: Novel Embedded Antennas and Engineered Materials in Wireless Communications and Sensing 10 Aug 2007: Thesis Defense Robert Kennedy: Degradation Phenomena in 4H-SiC N-P-N Bipolar Junction Transistors 10 Jul 2007: Thesis Defense Shamima Afroz: Characterization of Aluminum Gallium Nitride/Gallium Nitride Ultraviolet P-I-N Photodetectors 06 Jul 2007: Dissertation Defense Naveen Tipirneni: High Power III-Nitride Transistors For Energy Conversion 25 Apr 2007: Dissertation Defense Zheng Gong: Degradation Mechanisms of AlGaN- based Multiple Quantum Wells Deep Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes 18 Apr 2007: Dissertation Defense Sirisha Aluru: FPGA Implementation Of Discrete Wavelet Transform 17 Apr 2007: Dissertation Defense Anton H. C. Smith: Robust and Optimal Control using Polynomial Chaos Theory 09 Apr 2007: Dissertation Defense Jiawei Li: Mechanism of Threading Dislocation Reduction in GaN by “in-situ” SiH4 Treatment 04 Apr 2007: Thesis Defense Kai Jiang: Stage Design Of A UHV Scanning Tunneling Microscope 29 Mar 2007: Thesis Defense Brandon Gore: Effective Losses From Printed Wiring Board Components Containing Nickel 29 Mar 2007: Thesis Defense Terry Moss: De-Embedding of MMIC Test Bed Parasitics in Agilent ADS 27 Mar 2007: Dissertation Defense Christopher F. Wood: ovel Detection Method Coupled With a Neural Network Classifier for Determination of Transient Voltages in High Voltage Transmission Lines Caused by Lightning 26 Mar 2007: Dissertation Defense Steven G. Pytel: Multi-Gigabit Data Signaling Rates For PWBs Including Dielectric Losses And Effects Of Surface Roughness 17 Jan 2007: Reception for the Gregory Professorship in Electrical Engineering 13 Dec 2006: Dissertation Defense Zimin W. Vilar: A Synergetic Control For An Inverter-Fed High-Speed Turbo-Generator Unit In Mixed AC Power System Operations 17 Nov 2006: Thesis Defense Raghav Anand Nallan Chakravarthi: Signal Quality Analysis Under Non-Ideal Return Path Environment 13 Nov 2006: Dissertation Defense Zijiang Yang: III-Nitride MOSH Based RF Switches 10 Nov 2006: Dissertation Defense Liqing Lu:Physical Modeling Of Variable-Lifetime P-I-N Diodes And Of Two-Dimensional Effects In Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTS) 08 Nov 2006: Dissertation Defense Shiva Rai:High Quality Gate dielectric for High Power AlGaN/GaN MOSHFETs 04 November 2006: Homecoming BBQ for College of Engineering and IT 04 August 2006: Thesis Defense Harry Weatherford: Simulation of Converter Faults using Finite State Machines and State Equations 12 Jul 2006: Thesis Defense Tianlong Chen: Band-Pass Filter Design for Wireless Communication System 07 July 2006: Thesis Defense Zhongyuan Jia: Studies of Thermal Effects in AlGaN Deep Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes 22 May 2006: Thesis Defense Christopher Morgan: Fabrication and Testing of a High Temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition Furnace for the Growth of SiC Thick Epitaxial Films 21 Apr 2006: Seminar Dr. Tae Kuk Ko, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 09 Feb 2006: Sciences, Engineering and Technology Career Fair 18 Nov 2005: Dissertation Defense Peng Yang: Microwave Detection of Breast Tumor Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method 17 Nov 2005: Thesis Defense Steven Krooswyk: Scattering Parameter Channel Analysis 15 Nov 2005: Thesis Defense Alex Messan: Signal Integrity Validation for High-Speed Serial Links, A Case study: Serial ATA Gen2 14 Nov 2005: Dissertation Defense Santiago Lentijo: Processor-in-the-Loop and Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Procedures for Virtual Prototyping 11 Nov 2005: Dissertation Defense Nivert Rathle: Design Procedure for Active Power Filters for Improving Power Quality 03 Nov 2005: Dissertation Defense Serguei Maximenko: Investigation of Device Performance Limiting Defects in SiC semiconductor 02 Nov 2005: Thesis Defense Kalyani Alekar: FPGA-Based Control for Stand Alone and Combination of Buck Converters 02 Nov 2005: Thesis Defense Priyamvada Sadagopan: Study of the Issues in Integration of SiC Schottky Diodes 31 Oct 2005: Dissertation Defense Alexander Grekov: Investigation of Diffused SiC PIN-Diode for High Power Applications 26 Oct 2005: Dissertation Defense Zehong Zhang: Growth of Low Basal Plane Dislocation Density Epilayers of 4H-SiC for Stable Bipolar Diodes 25 Oct 2005: IEEE Meeting Dennis Cervenka 07 Oct 2005: Seminar Robert E. Stahlbush: Investigating Dislocations and Stacking Faults in SiC by Electro- and Photoluminescence Imaging 16 Sep 2005: Dissertation Defense Faisal Abedin: Miniaturization and Gain Enhancement of Wideband Low-profile Antennas on Engineered Structures 13 Sep 2005: Dissertation Defense Guangli Yang: Conformal Multi-functional Antennas and Rectifying Circuits for Wireless Communication and Microwave Power Beaming 11 Jul 2005: Seminar Dr. Nemai C. Karmakar: Developing Engineering Students' Transferable Skills Through Work Placement 05 Jul 2005: Dissertation Defense Davide Franzoni: Active Filter for Fuel Cell Applications 27 Jun 2005: Dissertation Defense Jimena Bastos-Mazuelos 27 Apr 2005: Final Robot Competition ELCT 402 Class 11 Apr 2005: Thesis Defense Prema Radhaksrishnan: Reverse Recovery time measurements in 4H-SiC P-i-N diodes 06 Apr 2005: Dissertation Defense Xin Wu:Low Profile Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Slot Antenna with Coplanar Waveguide (CPW) Feed 05 Apr 2005: Thesis Defense Yanwei Hu:Low Profile Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Slot Antenna with Coplanar Waveguide (CPW) Feed FIRST Robotics Palmetto Regional Competition 30 Mar 2005: Dissertation Defense Mark Blackwelder:System-level Model of a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Stack 23 Feb 2005: Thesis Defense E. Kofi Marfo: Design and Simulation of a Permanent Magnet Generator Excitation System for a 13.8 kV, 25 MVA Synchronous Generator in an Isolated Power System 26 Jan 2005: IEEE Meeting David Redys 03 Dec 2004: Seminar Harry Weatherford 01 Dec 2004: Final Robot Competition ELCT 402 Class 01 Dec 2004: Dissertation Defense Igor Kondratiev: Synergetic Control for Parallel Connected DC-DC Buck Converters 18 Nov 2004: Dissertation Defense Shuai Wu: Design, Fabrication and Testing of Micro-pixel Array Sub-280 nm Deep UV Light Emitting Diodes 15 Nov 2004: Dissertation Defense Yanjie Zhu: Applications of Multiresolution Time Domain Method to Electromagnetic Engineering 15 Nov 2004: Dissertation Defense Xiaoping Liu: Development of PSTD Methods for Wireless Communication Applications 12 Nov 2004: EE Seminar Faisel Abedin: Miniaturization and Gain Enhancement of Wideband Low-profile Antennas on Electromagnetic BandGap (EBG) Materials 05 Nov 2004: EE Seminar Guangli Yang: Conformal Multi-functional Antennas and Rectifying Circuits for Wireless Communication and Microwave Power Beaming 18 Oct 2004: EE Seminar Alessandro Ferrero: The Fundamentals of the Measurement Science: How Good Are Our Measurements? 08 Oct 2004: EE Seminar Richard Mellitz: I/O Buffer Behavioral Modeling 08 Oct 2004: EE Seminar Dr. Yong June Shin: Theory and Application of the Joint Time and Frequency Domain Reflectometry (J-TFDR) for Electrical Wiring Interconnect Systems (EWIS) 24 Sept 2004: EE Seminar Dr. Enrico Santi: Modern Control in Power Electronics 10 Sept 2004: EE Seminar Dr. Goutam Koley: Scanning probe Microscopy Techniques 03 Sept 2004: EE Seminar Ms. Yanjie Zhu: Applications of Ansoft HFSS and Synopsis HSPICE in Electrical Engineering 20 Aug 2004: EE Seminar Dr. Yanqing Deng: Wide Band Gap Devices: SiC Power DMOS, Terahertz Detectors and Emitters 04 Aug 2004 - EE Thesis Defense Pradeep Kondra: Performance of a Zinc-Air/Lithium-Ion Hybrid Battery System 15 Jul 2004 - EE Seminar Dr. Yong June Shin: Assessment and Localization of Transient Power Quality 21 May 2004 - Joint EE/Nanocenter Seminar Dr. Ray Tsu: Nanoelectronics: Physics and Engineering 08 May 2004: Spring 2004 Commencement Exercises for Doctoral Candidates 07 May 2004: Spring 2004 Commencement Exercises for Baccalaureate, Master's and Professional degrees 30 Apr 2004 - Spring Seminar Series Dr. Antonello Monti: A New Generation of Digital Controllers for Power Electronics 28 Apr 2004 - Spring 2004 Senior Project Robotics Competition 23 Apr 2004 - Spring Seminar Series Dr. Motahaul Kabir Mazumder: Effect of N2O or NO annealing of wet oxide at different times on TDDB characteristics 16 Apr 2004 (Rescheduled)- Spring Seminar Series Dr. Antonello Monti: A New Generation of Digital Controllers for Power Electronics
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