A NOTE FROM THE CHAIR

There has been a major transformation of the EECS Department during the past ten years. We are now housed primarily in a new building on the North Campus which contains some of the most modern facilities available on any university campus for instruction and research in advanced areas of electrical and computer engineering and science. The Department, which represents approximately one-third of the College of Engineering, is comprised of three major divisions: Computer Science and Engineering (CSE includes artificial intelligence, computer systems and hardware, computer theory and software systems), Electrical Science and Engineering (ESE includes circuits, electromagnetics, optics and solid- state electronics), and Systems Science and Engineering (SSE includes biosystems, communications and signal processing, control systems, and vehicular engineering). A major expansion of our programs was made possible by very strong support from the University and the State of Michigan, and has resulted in significant growth of our research activity, which is presently supported annually by approximately $30M of external funding, a ten-fold increase over the past ten years. This is a clear indication of the strength of our programs--which range from very basic research at the nano- and micro-levels to advanced developments at the system level--and of our excellent and diverse faculty. I am particularly pleased to note that nineteen of our faculty members have received highly coveted Young Investigator and Career awards from the National Science Foundation.

EECS programs at Michigan encompass a wide spectrum ranging from fine- geometry structures and materials to very high frequency/speed devices and integrated circuits, to highly complex computation, control and communications systems which constitute the forefront of the field today and for the foreseeable future. The University of Michigan has been selected as the site for a number of national centers of excellence: the SRC Center for Automated Semiconductor Manufacturing; the ARO-URI Center for High-Frequency Microelectronics; the NASA Center for Space Terahertz Technology; the NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) in ultrafast optics; the State of Michigan Center for Display Technology and Manufacturing; the ARPA Center for Optelectronic Science and Technology; and the NIH Center for Neural Communications Technology. These centers involve faculty members from several departments and are mainly staffed by EECS faculty and students.

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George I. Haddad
Robert J. Hiller Professor and
Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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