Research
For current faculty research and publication activity see their personal web pages. Below we include a representative list of research topics in which the engineering faculty and staff are actively engaged and links to selected past National Science Foundation grants for curriculum and laboratory improvement projects.
Research activity:
Dynamics, vibrations and control (Professor Ghorashi)
Application of saturation for vibration control
Structural dynamics
Nonlinear rigid body dynamics
Smart materials and structures (Professor Ghorashi)
Application of shape memory alloys in smart joints as actuators
Elasto-dynamic behavior of helicopter blades with embedded active fiber composites
MEMS and sensor technologies (Professor Guvench)
Surface and bulk micro-machined MEMS design
MEMS sensors
Integrated circuits design and fabrication (Professor Guvench)
CMOS analog integrated circuit design
Fabrication and testing of CMOS op-amps
Fabrication and testing of solar cells
Properties of electronic materials (Professor Smith)
Failure analysis of passive electronic components
Properties of composite electronic materials
Properties of positive temperature coefficient materials
Development of new composite electronic materials
Digital image processing (Professor Jankowski)
Image enhancement, contrast manipulation, image restoration
Image segmentation
Image registration
Nonlinear image processing, mathematical morphology
Shape invariants
Shape description
Signal processing (Professor Jankowski)
Filter design and time-frequency techniques
Software engineering (Professor Jankowski)
Design and implementation of code libraries for image processing applications
Digital logic (Professor Jankowski)
Signal processing with programmable logic
Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Professor Luck)
Design, modeling and analysis of manipulators and autonomous vehicles
Software development for robot simulation and control
Artificial intelligence applied to robotics
