Upcoming Research Seminar
Algorithms and Low Cost Architectures for Trace Buffer-Based Silicon Debug (December 1)
Research News
ECE technology to help smart grid grow smarter — An ECE team led by Arun Phadke is working...
National Instruments CEO delivers Bradley Lecture — National Instruments CEO and co-inventor of LabVIEW James Truchard...
7th graders visit ECE in preparation for First LEGO League — MagLev technology developed in ECE's labs attracted a team...
Reed, Bose, Amanna to head $1 million+ Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence — An ECE team is partnering with Howard University to...
ECE leads $1.25 million Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse project — Saifur Rahman, Joseph R. Loring Professor of Engineering, is...
ECE team receives $3.2 million Solar Award Grant — ECE's Jason Lai and Kathleen Meehan have received a...
Senior EE team wins national TI competition for subwoofer design — A team of ECE students took first place in...
Scales to study rocket-launched noctilucent cloud — A NASA rocket to be launched this week aims...
James Thorp honored with emeritus status — James Thorp, the head of the ECE department from...
ECE's Wang awarded Grant Dove Professorship — Yue (Joseph) Wang has been appointed the Grant A....
Thorp, Phadke lead nation's efforts to protect power grid — Thorp and Arun Phadke are strongly involved in projects...
ECE's Agah investigates insect secrets — ECE's Masoud Agah is on a multidisciplinary team investigating...
Research Mission
ECE's research funding reaches about $25 million yearly and efforts are dedicated to extending the base of knowledge, developing and transferring technology in support of the state's and the country's industrial activity, and providing students with experience in cutting edge pursuits in the field.
Major Research Groups
Biomedical Applications Group
Applications of signals and systems theory to problems in biology and medicine. Major areas of emphasis include systems biology, imaging, and bioinformatics. www.ece.vt.edu/bio |
Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications
The focus of the center is development of enabling technologies for embedded systems such as low power design, wireless networking, testing and verification of software and hardware, computer vision, and software/hardware co-design. www.cesca.centers.vt.edu/ |
Center for Photonics Technology
Our sensor research ranges from new sensing mechanisms to nano-scale material synthesis, from device innovations to system implementation, from physical to chemical, medical and biological measurement, from single point to distributed sensing and from normal environment to extreme physical and chemical conditions. photonics.ece.vt.edu/ |
Center for Power and Energy
The center focuses research on the design, improvement, and protection of the world's present and future power grids and equipment. www.ece.vt.edu/power |
Center for Power Electronics Systems
CPES provides global leadership for creating electric processing systems, emphasizing the technical developments and long-term impact on society. CPES is advancing the integrated power module concept to a wide range of next-generation, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly applications. www.cpes.vt.edu |
Configurable Computing Lab
Configurable computing machines provide the computational performance benefits of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), yet retain the flexibility and rapid reconfigurability of general purpose microprocessors. Applications include e-textiles, 1-D and 2-D signal processing, image processing, simulation acceleration, and scientific computing. www.ccm.ece.vt.edu |
MicrON Group
Spearheading advanced research projects in micro-, nano-, and optoelectronics technology. The focus of the center is on the emerging technologies at the interfaces between Si- and Ge-based processes, III-V semiconductor materials, sensors, MEMS, and photonics technologies and on their co-integration potential. www.micron.ece.vt.edu |
Space@VT
The Center for Space Science and Engineering Research at Virginia Tech (Space@VT) has broad interestes and expertise in the fields of space science and engineering. Current research efforts range from ionospheric physics to spacecraft dynamics and design and are concentrated on understanding the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field and upper atmosphere.www.space.vt.edu |
Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems
VaCAS facilitates interdisciplinary research in autonomous systems technology. VaCAS hosts research activities spanning every application domain: water, land, air, and space. www.unmanned.vt.edu |
Wireless@VT
Wireless @ VT focuses on multi-disciplinary solutions to the challenges of wireless communications. Areas of current emphasis include: antennas, wireless networking, wireless communications theory and simulations, cognitive radios and software defined radios, digital signal processing, large scale network simulations, VLSI for communication circuits and RFIC design. www.wireless.vt.edu |