Iowa State University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECpE) has a strong tradition of research excellence. From developing the encoding process used in nearly all fax machines to inventing the world’s first infant respiratory augmentor to help babies breathe, our faculty and graduate students have made major advancements that impact technology people worldwide use every day.
Today, our faculty and students continue the department’s tradition of research excellence. Our current faculty have:
- Created the Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment, the world’s first virtual cyber defense laboratory of its kind
- Improved the efficiency of polymer solar cells by 20 percent
- Developed FastPlace software, a VLSI placer that is an order of magnitude faster than the previous state-of-the-art and reduced placing time from two hours to 10 minutes
- Invented two of the basic devices used today in devices throughout the thin-film silicon photovoltaic industry: a tandem junction solar cell based on amorphous and amorphous germanium and a tandem cell comprising an amorphous and a crystalline semiconductor
- Developed a method to test a 16-bit analog-to-digital circuit with a test signal of 7-bit linearity or less, meaning engineers can now use a device that is 100 times poorer in linearity metrics and still get accurate results while saving money on testing costs
The 2010 issue features a novel ultrasound therapy system, compressed sensing innovations, and a new method to improve computer processor design and performance.
Research Highlights magazine
The ECpE department publishes a biennial Research Highlights magazine that features several of our faculty and students’ recent research achievements. Download PDF copies of past issues below.
