The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association |
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Letter from the Guest Editor |
Dear ECEDHA Members, Industry Partners, and Colleagues,
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March 25-28, 2022
New Programs added daily!
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ECEDHA-C and ERVA at the ECEDHA Annual Conference
By: George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania & Dan Stancil, North Carolina State University; ECEDHA-C Co-Chairs
The ECEDHA Community Working group (ECEDHA-C) was established to create a research and education vision for ECE departments, and act as a liaison between research leaders and policy makers. In a similar sense, the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) is an NSF-funded partnership that identifies future research directions across all engineering disciplines.
Several sessions at the upcoming ECEDHA Annual Conference will describe the missions of these two organizations and how they relate to each other in greater detail. As one of our featured speakers, we are honored to have Edl Schamiloglu, Distinguished Professor of ECE, Associate Dean for Research in the School of Engineering at the University of New Mexico and one of the ERVA co-PIs. In a plenary session on Saturday, March 26, at 11 am, Dr. Schamiloglu will describe how ERVA plans to pursue its goals and opportunities for ECEDHA members to participate in its activities.
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Making and Makerspaces in Electrical and Computer Engineering Education Workshop
By: Shawn S. Jordan,Arizona State University
Makerspaces attract many with strong interest in electrical and computer engineering (ECE)-related topics, including embedded systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and electronics, and many makers self-identify as having interests related to ECE. However, many university and community college makerspace facilities focus primarily on mechanical fabrication tools such as 3-D printers and laser cutters.
This highly interactive workshop will explore how making and makerspaces can help departments attract and retain students in ECE, explore how making and makerspaces can positively impact student learning, and provide individuals considering creating makerspaces methods to do so more effectively. This workshop is designed for chairs, faculty, instructors, and lab staff from universities and community colleges along with industry, researchers, and others with an interest in making and makerspaces.
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ECE faculty help spawn a new department of robotics at Michigan: what now?
By: Prof. Mingyan Liu, Peter & Evelyn Fuss Chair of ECE at University of Michigan
Robotics as a distinct program of study has been on the rise in higher education institutions, and much attention has been showered on robotics at recent ECEDHA conferences. The University of Michigan announced that a new Department of Robotics was approved by the Regents late in 2021.
Electrical and Computer Engineering department chairs across the country may be evaluating what potential impact the growth in robotics as a separate discipline will have on their own departments, and I’m happy to share my perspective on the situation..
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UC Santa Cruz mechatronics course makes a lasting impact on students, local community
By: Melissa Weckerle (UCSC Baskin Engineering Communications Staff)
The crowd watches anxiously as UC Santa Cruz engineering students tend to their robots, making small, last-minute adjustments and tweaking the software before the round begins. Then with a loud cheer going up from the audience, each team releases their robot onto the playing field and the competition for Mechatronics begins.
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Sponsored Article: Mouser Electronics’ Online Calculators Help Speed Electronic Design Process for Aspiring Engineers
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Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is also a single destination for all of the technical resources and tools to help aspiring and professional engineers throughout the design process.
Mouser’s free Technical Resource Center now offers an extensive lineup of online calculators designed to help engineers of all skill levels save time figuring out anything from power conversion computations to resistor color codes.
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ECE Institution Spotlight
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SPOTLIGHT ON ECE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
ECE at the University of Toronto is a hub of cutting-edge research, both of faculty and of alumni, and a hotbed for cultivating tech talent and startups, such as the digital storytelling platform Wattpad, co-founded by alumnus Allen Lau (ElecE 1991, ECE MASc 1992), and a number of spinoffs from our research groups like Right Track CAD (acquired by Altera) and Modiface (acquired by L’Oreal). ECE’s industry collaborators number in the dozens, including long-term relationships with multinational corporations like Fujitsu, IBM and LG. On campus, ECE has a fully operational DC microgrid — a rarity for any university — that provides access to commercial-scale solar arrays and energy storage facilities.
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Association Announcements |
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ECEDHA 2022 Annual Conference Checklist
The 2022 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana!
Get ready to reboot, reset and REUNITE because ECEDHA is bringing' it back Big Easy Style.
In order to attend this year's highly anticipated conference. please ensure you complete the following items:
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ECEDHA looks forward to gathering safely in person at our Annual Conference and ECExpo and will adhere to all state and federal guidelines regarding COVID-19 related restrictions and practices.
The City of New Orleans as of January 11th, 2022 requires masks at all indoor locations and events along with a negative PCR test (within 72 hours) or a COVID vaccine.
ECEDHA will monitor any and all updates from the City of New Orleans. For any questions and concerns about COVID-19, please visit the ECEDHA website to stay up to date with any changes.
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Previously recorded webinars are now available for your on-demand viewing!
Sponsored by Pico Technology
Sponsored by Keysight Technologies
Sponsored by Keysight Technologies
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ECEDHA Member and Partner News |
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The 2022 IEEE Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits and Systems (TSWMCS) will be held in a hybrid format on 19-20 April, 2022, at the Baylor Research and Innovation Collaborative (BRIC) building on the campus of Baylor University in Waco, TX. This event is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE AP and MTT Societies, and is devoted to a wide variety of topical areas. Participants will have the opportunity to interact and discuss the latest developments in devices, modeling, spectrum management and wireless areas. For more information about the symposium, please visit the symposium website at www.TexasSymposium.org. Papers accepted for publication and presented at the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore.
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A Little Engineering Humor |
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To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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