Len Brillson,
professor of electrical and computer engineering, and physics,
was recently named a 2013 Fellow of the Materials Research
Society. He was honored for “seminal contributions to the
understanding and control of semiconductor interfaces, their
metallurgical reactions, native point defects, and electronic
properties.”
Robots that fight fires, cars that drive themselves, clothes that
prevent illness the stuff of science fiction novels? Or, are they
closer than we think? Ohio State electrical and computer
engineering researchers were among the experts interviewed for
Life in 2030, a one-hour special radio show from
the Engineers of the New Millennium.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in the Department of
Defense (DOD) has awarded Lei (Raymond)
Cao, assistant professor of nuclear engineering, and
Yuan F. Zheng,
professor of electrical and computer engineering, a $450,000
three-year grant to fund their collaborative research on
radiation sensitivity of critical radiation-hardened robotic
components.
Fueled by the increasing popularity of online services—from
online banking to video sharing—and cloud computing, the number
and size of computer data centers continues to grow. As the
number of data centers increases, so does the amount of energy
needed to power them. In addition to high electricity bills and
significant environmental implications, increased power
consumption may lead to system failures caused by power capacity
overload or overheating.
Echoic flow, or the time to collision between a sensor and a
detected object, could have future applications in a variety of
areas, from autonomous navigation, to aircraft landing aids, to
prosthetics to enable blind people.
Despite continued advances, many issues still remain as to how to
best design and operate autonomous vehicles. Six Ohio State
faculty from the departments of electrical and computer
engineering, and computer science and engineering are working to
integrate multidisciplinary advances in software, sensing and
control, and modeling to address current weaknesses in autonomous
vehicle design.
Paul Berger, professor of electrical
and computer engineering, received a $340,000 three-year grant
from the National Science Foundation to fund research to advance
the efficiency and functionality of solar cells. James Coe,
professor of chemistry at Ohio State, and Suvankar Sengupta,
chief technical officer of MetaMateria, are co-principal
investigators for the project.
Electrical and computer engineering students took first and third
place in the Student Paper Awards at the 34th Annual Symposium of
the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) held
October 21-26, 2012.
