Research Overview
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has extensive graduate research laboratory facilities located in the College of Engineering. The department operates undergraduate teaching laboratories in circuits, electromagnetics, electronics, power, and digital circuits. Additional computing laboratories and space for Senior Design projects and student society projects also exist. Graduate research facilities exist for our work in power systems, materials, electromagnetics, optics, wireless communications, high performance computing, networking, and intelligent systems. Faculty and graduate students work together in these laboratories on projects ranging form power electronics to unmanned or autonomous vehicles. Major funding comes from the US DoD, NIH, US DoT NSF, US DoE, and industry sources. The department works closely with the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS). This research entity is housed next door to the College of Engineering, and offers many opportunities for research collaboration.
In the area of computing capabilities, the department has numerous personal computers interconnected to the College's computing network. MATLAB, MATHCAD, and other UNIX and PC-based programs are readily available to graduate students in their computational research. The department houses part of the High Performance Computing Center that is joint with the University of Florida and the US DoE. Extensive, high level computing capabilities are available to students and faculty through The Florida State University Academic Computing and Network Service (FSU ACNS) and School of Computational Science (SCS) through the College of Engineering network cluster. All students are given computer accounts allowing unlimited access to the Internet.