Meet the Faculty
ECE Faculty
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View the videos below to learn about a few of our faculty members, their research and more about electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State. Visit the directory for a complete list of faculty.
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Best thing about the ECE department?
I like it here I am very happy here
because all the people are nice. And you think, oh it’s a big
giant school no one is going to remember my name, but it
doesn't feel like that at all. It feels really intimate.
Advice for new students:
Keep up with your math and science and
when you are studying for that final exam, study to remember
it for life don’t just study it to get through the
exam.
Ohio Research Scholar in Integrated Systems,
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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What kind of research do you do?
My enduring interest is trying to extract information from
echo signals, because if we can do that, we can do so much
more with the sensors. A particular theme that I’m developing
at the moment is trying to apply the ideas of cognition, the
type of cognition that you and I use as human beings, and put
that into radar systems to give them much more ability than
to just to, for example, take a picture to detect aircraft in
the sky, and present that to an operator.
What do you like best about working with
students?
The longer that you’ve been involved in a research area, the
more worried I become about being a little bit trammeled in
my thinking. So when I work with undergraduates and
graduates, it’s their lack of experience that doesn’t get in
the way that I like. And I like to see the way that they are
able to explore ideas and research threads, that maybe
wouldn’t have occurred to me, but might just lead to
somewhere significant in terms of the findings.
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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What do you like best about teaching?
I like seeing the lightbulb turn on. I like when suddenly
somebody understands something and they have that wonderful
ah-ha moment. So that’s what I teach for. I teach to see
students have that ah-ha moment!
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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What attracted you to Ohio State?
The facilities for the kind of things I do, which is
nanotechnology and electronic materials, is as good as
anywhere in the world or the US. So I knew if I came
here I would be able to do any research I wanted.
There isn't any set requirements for engineers. It turns out that in engineering we need all kinds of people. So we need people who communicate well. If you like to build things, of course, you know, it's definitely engineering. In general, any engineering training that you get is going to prepare you to solve problems. So whether you go out and become a company CEO, or if you want to go out and do law, or if you want to go to medical school, the training you get in engineering in problem solving and just not being afraid of something that's difficult, will go a long way in making you successful.
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Best thing about the ECE department?
One of the great things about this department is, from a
student prospective, the fact that the students are given a
broad education which is multidisciplinary and, as a matter
of fact, I interact with a lot of other students in
Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering and students
from ECE can work in multidisciplinary problems without too
much problems because they have an education that prepares
them to take on significantly challenging technological
problems.
Advice for graduate students:
For graduate students, my advice to be successful in this
program as well as many other programs in engineering, is to
explore don’t be constrained and confined to your own
specific research project but keep your mind open and take as
many math classes as possible.
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