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Power Semiconductors
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Renewable Energy
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Generators
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Integrated Circuits and

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Implantable radiation
sensors to improve
cancer therapy
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Electronic Systems:

energy management

Telecommunications

security

entertainment

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What can you do as an electrical engineering student?

Start designing and building electronic systems!

For example

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EE faculty members normally provide opportunities for

undergraduate to engage in research work at their
laboratories.
These opportunities not only enhance your
undergraduate learning experience but:
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you could use this work up to 6 hours of ELEG

technical electives,
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research!

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Brain Probes and Sensors

Olfactory bulb recording in rat

e-coli

E-coli bacteria detection

Microsystems
Nano-Electrical
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Microthruster for
micro spacecraft
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Medical Imaging

Microwave Techniques for Breast Cancer

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Dr. Magda ElEl-Shenawee

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To deep space applications

To 15 or more color detection
systems using lighter weight and
smaller size satellites

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Wavenumber (cm )

Nanocrystals

Multi-Color Focal Plane Arrays

Infrared Detectors Based on
Semiconductor Nanostructures
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Aligned multiwalled carbon

nanotubes

Wireless smart vest for ECG, EKG, Respiration etc., and

for blood flow , oxygen and viscosity of blood measurement
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Electrical
Engineering
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There may be only 10 15 integrated circuits on both sides of a cell

phone printed circuit board, but several hundred passive components
(resistors and capacitors) highlighted in yellow.
Research work at UA is finding manufacturing processes to build these
passive components on a layer .002 thick within the circuit board,
freeing up space on the front and back of the board for more ICs and
additional functions.
functions
In cell phones, Thin is In!
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Dr. Kazem Sohraby
Electrical Engineering
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RFID System Architecture

Main Functions

Basic Operations to Identify Tags

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Reader-to-Tag
Tag-to-Reader
Reader-to-Server
Server-to-Reader
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Characterization
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Dr. Vasundara Varadan
Research Areas
Negative Property MW Materials
for
Broadband MW Characterization
phantoms
MW Imaging
Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE)
Embedded Sensor Systems
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controlled
imaging, scanning,
characterization.
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Applications
Collision Avoidance Automotive Radars, Stealth Materials, Cloaks
Invisibility, LTCC fabrication of metamaterials
5-110 GHz, -40C-1500C, MW ceramics, biological tissues,
Early detection of Breast Cancer
Non-contact security screening for detection of objects concealed
under clothes & footwear - protects privacy of airport passengers!!
Self-contained, compact point of care medical monitoring systems
cough, pulse, blood pressure, respiration

MW characterization of critical MW devices,

antenna substrates, space tiles, shielding
& radar absorbing materials, normal and
cancerous breast tissue phantoms, etc.

Excellent opportunities for

undergraduate
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